Getting pretty close top finishing the block-houses at the moment. Just the details to paint in now. Then I need to ge on to making the barbed wire entanglements.An interesting sub-plot might be how much space these things take up on the table. The block-house is about 80mm in diameter. The earthworks blow the foot-print out to about 300mm. By the time I have added barbed wire, I think the diameter of one blockhouse would be in the region of 370mm or so. Food for thought! Add another and you are taking up quite a substantial portion of your avarage 6' x 4' war-games table.
In other news, and prompted by the perfidious Jeff, I have been reading on the Sudan.
Let me please share with you some OOB and scaling thoughts that i have prepared in an anally-retentive half-hour.
The Desert Column before Abu Klea (13.01.1885).
Guards Camel Regiment - 414 all ranks
Heavy Camel Regiment - 400
Mounted Infantry Camel Regiment - 383
1st/35th (Royal Sussex) - 258
19th Hussars - 135
25th Coy, RE - 27
1/2 Battery RA - 38 (3 x 2.5" Screw Guns)
Naval Brigade - 58 (1 Gardiner Gun)
Ths totals out at 1653 men whaich at a suitably Old School 1:10 is close enough to 165 figure. Now, lets take that scaling and apply unit organisations from The Sword and the Flame and apply them:
The Desert Column before Abu Klea for TSatF
Guards Camel Regiment - 2 units (40 figures)
Heavy Camel Regiment - 2 units (40 figures)
Mounted Infantry Camel Regiment - 2 units (40 figures)
1st/35th (Royal Sussex) - 1 unit (20 figures)
19th Hussars - 1 unit (12 figures)
1/2 Battery RA - 1 x 2.5" Screw Gun - (four figures)
Naval Brigade - 1 Gardiner Gun - (three figures)
Which comes to 159 figures. A pretty fair approximation, I think.
Of course, you'd need heaps of Mahdists. But there are tried and true ways of dealing with that.
What do you think?
6 comments:
Greg,
I think that you've forgotten COMMAND . . . are there no officers?
-- Jeff (perfidious or not)
Hi Jeff,
Each regiment is a mixed total of all ranks.
Perhaps we could add a half dozen or so command figures - TSatF allows for this at the "higher" levels.
Cheers,
Greg
sorely tempted
..a nice mixed bag - heavy on the camels though - a lot of painting to represent the unit in mounted and dismounted mode... :o)
Oh Steve,
Can't I just have them dismounted with a gaggle of hobbled camels in the middle of the square?
Please?
Greg
:^)
Ha... no - paint them all... (sounds of whips cracking!)
Would that be kourbashes cracking?
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