Old Glory Russian Dragoons and Cossacks above and below. These are the Ussuri Regiment. Ussuri started off as Cossacks and transformed to Dragoons. Here we have both incarnations. The Ussuri Cossacks are two men light. Did I ever have them? Don't know. Can I find them? Not so far. I need to find a solution.
Obviously, if you know TMWWBK that is, these will be rated as Regular Cavalry and Irregular Cavalry with Modern Carbine respectively. The latter for variety.
Russian Sailors. I'm fielding these as Irregulars with Modern Rifles. Once again I'm missing a figure. This time it is the Russian Officer. I'm using the Campaign Dress excuse by way of justification.
Western Regular Infantry and good quality at that. Italian Bersiglieri who will be Regulars, Modern Rifle and Veteran. Expensive in TMWWBK but formidable.
Russian Regular Infantry, these ones are from Blue Moon. Bigger than the OG ones but workably so.
German Regular Infantry from OG. The Chinese building in the background is a work in progress.
You might have noticed I've forgone the usual historical context. I will get to it. I like to aim for an objective view and in this case it was eluding me. Inspiration came in the form of a cup of tea. Appropriately enough. That's for another time. Then we will see the rest of my Western Troops. That's a clue. I don't own any Japanese. Yet.
If I had some Japanese I could do the Russo-Japanese War in big skirmish/small battle. Maybe.
Lovely additions to your project OB, the Russian sailors are particularly very nice.
ReplyDeleteYes, that would be my pick too Donnie.
DeleteYou certainly manage to churn through the figures at a rate of knots when you set your mind to a project, OB! Hopefully your temporary inability to form an objective view on this conflict doesn't indicate angst about the colonial aspect?!
ReplyDeleteMost of these were painted 20 years ago or so. I'm not as quick as it appears.
DeleteMore space really. I have effectively 1 side of A4 to describe something complex. In this case why and how the Boxers? Really it all came down to tea I realised as I drank a cup.
Good looking troops and it's always good to come across a ruleset that can reignite interest in a period, of course I vote for some Japanese but that's because since I was ten I've owned Punch for 1904 and was fascinated by the cartoons related to the War!
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This is the stuff that counts Iain. Early influences. I'll see what I can do.
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