St Petersburg Opolcheniye and "Never fight uphill me boys!" - Part 5

I promised another Roossian infantry unit so here they are the St Petersburg Opolcheniye. Hinton Hunt never produced a Russian Militia figure but these have been cleverly converted by Don from Prussian Landwher. I made up the numbers by adding command figures and three Russian figures from the Crimean War range.

"Don't give him your name Commrade Pike!"

The figures used are:

18 x PN.21 Landwehr Private (marching)

1 x PN.18 Landwehr Private (charging) - converted to drummer

1 x RN/1 Officer, charging - converted to standard bearer

1 x RN/7 Officer, marching

3 x RC/17 Russian private, marching

The flag is pure conjecture drawn for me by ChatGPT but I rather like it.

This week I had another stab at a War of 1812 game at Goya's using the Mr Madison's War rules. Goya had come up with a fun little scenario where a mixed force of British Sailors and Marines had to raid the American coast in an attempt to secure three objectives. I had the honour of commanding the jolly Jack Tars whilst Goya skulked in the woods with the Colonials.

These lads don't get out much so it was great to let them have a crack at the enemy even if this time it wasn't the French.

Goya has quite a few marines a mixture of Hinton Hunt and Minifigs S-range.

My brave lads hit the beach. The windmill is one of my objectives - I have to burn it to the ground for VPs.

Another objective - poor Captain Mainwaring is a prisoner of the Americans and must be released and brought home.

Ouch! The US forces have two artillery pieces in a redoubt that they have unsportingly fired at my men as they push inland

I try to take the windmill but the US forces are there in strength and eventually force me back.

I never did manage to free poor Mainwaring but we did manage to knocked out the battery and squeeze enough VPs to just win the game.

The game was a lot of fun but we both learned (yet again) that it's a good idea to read the rules before we play. I'm hoping we can try another of these soon.