10mm AWI/ACW Buildings

 These 10mm building are made for AWI  but can be used in ACW just as easily.  Some are based as farms and some on their own.

boxer rebellion legate forces

 British marines defending the legate

 British Imperial troops ready to march on the capital.  To be honest I dont like the uniforms much, we should have worn red.

 Indian troops supporting the British march on the capital.  Indian troops made to the balance of the british empire contingent.

 Americans, well at least they turned up.  In actual fact the american troops fought very well during the rebellion but it dosent defent the tarrible atrocaties carried out by them after the rebellion in china.  Although I should point out that most of the occupation troops were infact not the same marines who defended the legate or fougfht in the rebellion, they were new arrivals after the rebellion.  Mark Twain wrote quite alot about the subject.

Boxer Rebellion Russian

 Here are some russian infantry from the boxer rebellion but can be used for any of the wars of the period.

Sudan 10mm Egyptian Army

Ah the Egyptians are coming.

  the Egyptian army in the sudan was a mixed bag.  It had some string units and even conscripts were well trained, however corruption in the higher ranks had its effect.  As far as command went they often paid European officers to take command of their armies, with mixed results.   The infantry were as I said a mixed bag, but the army was well motivated.  After all the mahdists didn't take prisoners too often, and when they did they usually weren't all that nice to them, so they had to fight to the death.  Interestingly, even amongst volunteer's the desertion rate was only 04%, which is lower than most European armies of the day.

 The army has 2 Cavalry Squadron's, 3 battalions of infantry, 2 batteries of 7pdr guns, 1 battery of Gardner machine guns, 2 supply wagons and 3 generals.

 The Artillery were 7pdr Krupp [75mm] cannons, used in most armies of the period, including France, Germany, Italy, China and japan.   I painted the cannon with 1 gunner in Egyptian officers blue uniform, and think it came out well. 

 Here are my command, Gordon himself [middle], Billy Hicks [right], and an Egyptian general [left]  
you notice the drummers and flags, which are not in pendrakens packs, I had to convert these, they are 2 normal rifle guys with an ECW drum stuck on for the drummer and a pike stuck on the rifle for the standard.

 Here you see the command units with the infantry, drummers and standards converted.

 The Gardner guns or Nordenfelts the Egyptians used both, are conversions also, I used German 77mm guns, took off the barrel, cut down the trail and put barrels of wire on top, I think they look passable.   Although they look good I have had little success using them so far, 1st game they were over run in an ambush, second time the dice gods didn't like them, I supressed 2 enemy formations then got over run by camels, go figure.

 The supply wagons are from irregular miniatures 10mm range.  They are the closest wagons I could find that match the type used by the Egyptian army. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sudan 10mm Mahdist army

 Here in all its glory is my Mahdist army.  In total there is 3 Commanders including the Mahdi himself, 6 Tribes of Mahdists, 3 Tribes of Fuzzy-Wuzzy 2 Batteries of 7pdr Cannon, 1 Formation of Camel Cavalry.

 Here is the command, the Mahdi and 2 senior commanders.  Figures are taken from SC15 Mahdist command pack and SC13 Arab Civilians, which has a very nice chap who looks good as a senior commander.

Hadendoa Tribesmen, or Fuzzy-Wuzzy Warriors, good shock troops but need a lot of support.  To be honest I have only used them once and found them better troops than the regulars. The tribesmen were better motivated than the rest of the army.  unlike the Mahdist regulars the Hadendoa were not in general followers of the Mahdi and for the most part not exactly muslim, although close enough at the time.  They fought their own parallel war and were able to extricate themselves from the conflict when the war moved to a close.

 The Mahdist infantry are the backbone of the army, there is a lot of them too, they just keep on coming.  They may not be the best colonial troops but make up for it in sheer numbers.  The regular forces were a mixed bunch, the locals who either volunteered for political or religious reasons,  or joined through fear of having their wives and children taken as slaves.  Many foreign troops also joined the Mahdi, perhaps as many as 40,000 but after sharia law was declared and the Sudan economy imploded many simply went home.  So as regular troops they can be elements of conscripts to die hard fanatics, this could have been off set by splitting up units into separate elite and trained units, but sadly the leadership was in turmoil and although having some very good commanders they failed to organise the army effectively.

 the 7pdr batteries, captured from the Egyptians are the same guns as the Egyptians use, although lack of experienced crews and shortage of reliable ammunition lets them down.  Although the Mahdists did try to remedy this problem.  When Abdallahi ibn Muhammad took power he did try to set up an effective war machine but the Sudan had been driven into the sand by then and foreign trade for the needed materials had been all but severed for the next 20 years. 

 

 

 

 

Boxer rebellion

 Boxer Infantry and German sea battalion

 

I know it dosen't exactly fall into the realm of WWI, however with the wars of the period all leading to WWI the boxer rebellion fills this region.  The boxer Rebellion was the first war of the 19th century and was herald of much to come, Stemming from the opium wars and the Sinno-Japanese war the rebellion was much more a civil war, fought between the Qing forces and mostly muslim parts of the Imperial army and the boxers themselves.  Although not very nice people, I sort of side with the rebles, China was very badly treated by the west.  I am planning on building an army for the wars in china around this period, although these figs were part of a commission.  If anyone knows any good rules for the period I would love to know.

Indian Mutiny

 I have been wanting to get into Indian mutiny for ages but never had the chance or funds.  I always wanted to know how the Indians could have lost given their advantages, and wanted to play a game with them but never saw a good set of rules to have a go with, but after a long look while I should have been working at Freewargamerules site I now have a set to game with but no figures.  However At Triples I picked up a few samples of Irregular Miniatures 15mm Mutiny figures.  These are Mutineers as you can tell, what I couldn't resist was getting a couple of elephants to pull the siege guns.

 The Infantry are a collection of figures both mutiny and loyal, to give a better overall look.

 These Elephants are such a cool thing I had to have them.  The Code if FIM14 from |Irregular Miniatures if you are at all interested.  They are quite cheep as well considering.  They are used to pull the Indian heavy siege guns.

The cannon are not part of the mutiny range but from the equipment section and are bombards, I just think they look more realistic on the field, besides by the end the Indians were dusting off anything that went bang as the British and their Allies crushed the rebellion.

Mahdist Revolt 6mm

 Here is a Formation of Baccus Mahdists, The pack comes with 4 regiments but I thought they looked a bit crowded and so split them to 6 bases.

 A  slightly closer View of these guys.

 There are as you know 2 types of infantry these guys are the 'other guys'  Ok they are the main guys but you get the idea.