More Cossacks

Wow, two post in one month.  I must be ill or something.  I just have a quick post with a few pictures today (I don’t want to get carried away with this posting like a real blogger or something).  Crazy busy at work this month, hopefully next month I can get back to working on my long neglected Otherwhere Renaissance-ish Campaign.  I really need to finish that map.

As mentioned earlier in reviewing my unit rosters for our local Theater of War campaign I realized that I was woefully short of Cossacks.  So, into the lead pile I dove, and came up with another shinny bag of lead that has begging for paint for probably years,  

These are Old Glory Cossacks, with Firearms.  I figure these should work from basically the Renaissance to at least the Napoleonic period.  Being surly uncooperative Cossack types, they refused to stay in focus.  Figures.

And lastly, for something completely different a unit of formed Transylvanian Hand gunners to supplement my Hungarian Renaissance forces.  

I think the Cossack's attitude may have rubbed off on them, they don't seem to want to stay in focus either.

Hopefully the next post will be more in-depth and less rushed.

So much lead, so little time.

OFF TOPIC - Campaign Diplomacy

Sorry, this is a little off topic.

Well, our little Napoleonic ImagiNation campaign seems to have kicked off.  And of course, my peace loving (and rabbit obsessed) country of Fuddland has been the victim of foreign aggression.  For the entire sordid story you can follow this link  https://pancerni-fishtales.blogspot.com/2020/02/no-mutton-tonight.html  

A very sad tale.  Leave it to the S’Gottland scoundrels to cast their eyes towards our sheep.

In response to this hideous act, the Fuddland Foreign Minister, Grand Duke, I Canbe Bribedski, issued the following statement.

“The people of Fuddland are outraged by this blatant act of aggression perpetrated on our sovereign soil by the forces of  S’Gottland.  Clearly they were not expecting the ever-vigilant Cossack warriors of the Czar to blunt this invasion.   His Excellency the Czar of the all of the Fudds finds this recent rash of unprovoked violence by S’Gottland on her neighbors concerning.”   

Grand Duke Bribedski went on to state,  “I will be contacting my S’Gottland counterpart regarding financial compensation for the 73 Cossack arrows, and the 6 pine suppositories (lances) administered to the S’Gottland invaders while defending our territory. Additionally, once we have been compensated for the room and board cost  incurred by a certain S’Gottland officer who was detained while illegally crossing the border into Fuddland, we will be happy to discuss his eventual return to S’Gottland.”

On a more positive note, Fuddland announced that they will be opening an Embassy in Dahara.  The below is a painting showing the Ambassador and his escorts leaving the capital for their historic journey to Dahara.

In the lead are two companies of the Fuddland Diplomatic Guards, resplendent in their signature carrot plumes.  These stalwart fellows represent the finest of the Fuddland Guard/Grenadier corps.  Each member of the Diplomatic Guards is able to read and write, a rare skillset in Fuddland.  Additionally they have all been specially trained in ways to protect important personages.  While they all excel at planting bayonets in opponents chest, they also do double duty as embassy staff, cooks, clerks, etc.

Next in line we have the Ambassador and his aids, followed by a detachment from the Fuddland Guard Cossacks who will accompany the procession to the border with Dahara where Daharan forces can provide an escort, followed by the obligatory baggage train,  

And finally we have a disgraced dismounted Dragoon Regiment.  This Regiment is currently being punished for it’s abysmal performance  and failure to maintain the Fuddland standards for Cavalry in the last campaign season.  (seriously, they routed in every single game, usually upon first contact).  The Czar’s advisiors recommended that His Excellency reinstitute the age old Fuddland tradition of Decimation to make an example.  Fortunately for this unit, Czar Elmer is an enlightened ruler, and instead ordered that they be striped of their horses and forced to serve as Infantry for a six month period.  This unit will be leaving the procession before reaching the Dahara border as they return to their barracks and are reunited with their mounts in time for the next campaign season.  For their sake, I hope they have learned their lesson.

We now return to our regularly scheduled foolishness.

So much lead, so little time.