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Category Archives: Napoleonic French Army
“La Garde Au Feu!”: My 15mm French Imperial Guard (Part 2 – The Middle Guard)
In Part 1 last week, I looked at the infantry of Napoleon’s Old Guard and my recreation of them in 15mm, using AB Figures. In Part 2 I’m going to look at what was initially the ‘Young Guard’, but which … Continue reading
“La Garde au Feu!”: My 15mm French Imperial Guard (Part 1 – The Old Guard)
I doubt that there’s a single Napoleonic wargamer who doesn’t have at least one Imperial Guard unit in their collection and I’m certainly no exception… And having recently painted my very LAST Imperial Guard infantryman (for the two Young Guard … Continue reading
“The First Horseman of Europe”: Marshal Murat in 15mm (Sho Boki Miniatures)
If you’re a Napoleonic wargamer like me, who enjoys refighting the Great Battles of History, you will at some point require the services of a model of one of the greatest ‘characters’ of the age; Prince Joachim Murat, Marshal of … Continue reading
French Napoleonic Reinforcements
Since getting back into my first wargaming love of Napoleonics in 2015, thanks to our Waterloo Bicentennial games, I’ve been steadily working my way through the lead-pile. In 2015 this stood at around 2,000 unpainted 15mm AB Figures Napoleonics. Thanks to painting 1,000 … Continue reading
Some Napoleonic French Foreign Legions (AB Figures 15mm)
In my last post I looked at a few armies that were allied to Napoleonic France. However, the French Army itself also contained quite a number of foreign Regiments and Legions within its ranks, raised from Germans, Italians, Swiss, Dutch, … Continue reading
Some Napoleonic French Allies (15mm AB Figures)
Everybody needs friends. Doubly so if you’re French… So here are some allies for Napoleon. These are all AB Figures 15mm (the kewl kidz call them ’18mm’ nowadays, but they were 15mm when I bought them. That’s inflation for you…). … Continue reading
“Where is Grouchy?!” – Some French Units for Waterloo
And so to the French… While I already had a pile of French troops for Waterloo, quite a few were looking very tired and in need of refurbishment or replacement (most notably my ancient 1980s-vintage Battle Honours artillery and Guard … Continue reading
“Á l’eau c’est l’heure!” – The Sailors of the Imperial Guard
The Marins de la Garde Impériale were originally created by Napoleon in 1803 as part of the Consular Guard. The Marins (i.e. ‘Sailors’ or ‘Seamen’, often mis-translated in English as ‘Marines’, which they were not) were raised from naval personnel and … Continue reading