1812 The Retreat from Moscow - Ben's 1st game!

 

Just a quick update, sales of 1812 The Retreat from Moscow are going great and today a fellow blogger Ben has posted up a battle report of his first game, 

1812 Retreat from Moscow - Scenario 1 - The Barn at Dawn

Check out Ben's blog  Miniature Wars you may have missed or click the link below. Ben took advantage of the offer to buy both the rules and the 10mm Pendraken figures, he's been busy painting up the figures and making terrain over the last few weeks, so check out his post, he had some real hard decisions to make!!!

https://miniwarsyoumayhavemissed.blogspot.com/2026/08/1812-retreat-from-moscow-scenario-1.html

Retreat from Moscow - French Wagons

Its back to the 25mm Retreat from Moscow project for todays post. I did want to have a few wagons in our first big game at Broadside, but ran out of time.

My plan was or should I say is, to paint up a dozen or so wagons, so we can field a large wagon train running away from Moscow.

So here are the first two. This one is from Iron Gate Scenery with a Redoubt horse.

With a Warbases load.

The next wagon and cart load are both from Depot Battalion, sold by Warbases, The two horses are Iron Gate. 

Now the problem I found is I couldn't find French Napoleonic drivers sold singularly. Most nowadays are sold along with a wagon. Now of course, I'm painting up French figures who should look cold, preferably in a great coat. What to do?

I searched through my massive box of unpainted figures and found these two figures, which are actually, Depot Battalion c17th Century Civilians.

The big cuffed coat worn in that period looks very similar to a Napoleonic French greatcoat. I did need to file the cuffs down a little and replaced the floppy hatted heads with some Warlord plastic heads. I'm very pleased how they came out!

 

15mm Debris of War trees

Daughter no3 Holly, has finally moced all her crap out of my Garage, which has given me time to tidy up a bit before Reject Steve cones round next Friday to build me a wargame table.

Now in this tidying up, I found a bag and to my delight it was a bag of Debris of War trees, that if I'm being honest, I forgot I'd bought.

Now I'm pretty sure these 7 15mm trees were purchased at the very last minute at this years Broadside Show.

They're the start of my 15mm tree collection, so I'll need a few more, that's if Tony at Debris carries on making them?

I do hope so.

The figures are 15mm Essex ysed to scale the wondwrful looking trees.