Pondering Prussians and a wargame at Tony's

You will remember that earlier this year I was the lucky recipient of some very nice vintage Hinton Hunt Prussian castings from Ian. Amongst them were quite a few of PN.5 (the figure cast with a separate musket). I've been wondering about the best way to animate these so couldn't resist having a go and after several attempts I came up with this.

I did try a few other options but none of them looked very realistic poses so this rather safe version will be the one I use for a unit.

This week I was fortunate to get an invite to Tony's for a War of the Spanish Succession game with his superb Les Higgins forces using his Corporal John Lite rules. The rules have some similarities to C&C but Tony has done away with cards and introduced a clever brigade activation system instead. The game progressed at a fair old pace and we fought to a conclusion in four hours which was impressive. Tony has already posted an AAR here so what follows are just a few photos of his lovely toys.

This is the view from my side of the table. I went for the Austrians again as it seemed a good idea after my success at Nigel's last month.

French cavalry on the move.

The view from Tony's side of the table.

I've always had a thing for cavalry with lobster-pot helmets.

This cavalry clash was a big one and it lasted for the whole game.

My lads got a lucky break with a random event double move that allowed me to rapidly advance my centre.

This village was worth 1VP to whoever held it. Here you can see the French have beaten me to it.

And here you can see that I have pushed them out - hooray!

These very smart chaps are from Hessen-Kassel. They went forward bravely and immediately routed. The mini-dice shows which brigade they belonged to.

This unit of French cavalry hid in a turnip field for much of the game. Nice to see those old Britains hedges.

In the last turn of the game I managed to destroy one of Tony's guard cavalry units and unhorse both of his cavalry commanders (that was 3VPs).

More Hessians this time hanging back a bit.

The table at the end of play, I managed to just pull off a victory on points.

Here the Comte de Marsin pushes forward with a regiment of infantry but a bit late to affect the outcome of the battle.

Next up will be a few more Austrians then things will definitely be going in a Prussian direction.