Spanish Ulcer (2 Viewers)

[King's Man]

Boring!!!

No one should ever accuse First Legion of being boring in their selection of figures to release. Let’s look at the record:

Already released figures:

Westphalia Jaegers
Wurttemberg Jaegers
British Guards
French Infantry
French Guards

Announced future figures

Westphalia Guard Jaegers
Russian: all types of troops including artillery
Wurttemberg Line Infantry
Nassau Infantry
Brunswick both Line Infantry and Jaegers

These facts speak for themselves as to the diverseness of First Legion production.

King’s Man

 

[nmrocks]

Boring!!!

No one should ever accuse First Legion of being boring in their selection of figures to release. Let’s look at the record:

Already released figures:

Westphalia Jaegers
Wurttemberg Jaegers
British Guards
French Infantry
French Guards

Announced future figures

Westphalia Guard Jaegers
Russian: all types of troops including artillery
Wurttemberg Line Infantry
Nassau Infantry
Brunswick both Line Infantry and Jaegers

These facts speak for themselves as to the diverseness of First Legion production.

King’s Man

KM,
Do you work for the presidents press office?!?!
Talk about twisting ones words, no one has in anyway said FL was boring, I said all the manufacurers doing Waterloo only was Boring.
Ray

 

[Spitfrnd]

Can't argue with your logic, Danian, there's a whole long list of mfg. doing Waterloo, you'll have no problem filling your ranks, just don't want EVERYBODY doing Waterloo.
Ray

Frankly to me it is not whether everyone does Waterloo but whether First Legion does Waterloo that matters. I could care less if 50 other manufacturers want to try. I agree that no one could accuse them of not producing diverse figures and I am thrilled they will even entertain being more so.

 

[King's Man]

Sorry, I misread your statement. For the record I too would rather see British troops of the Peninsular War period rather than Waterloo. But the general public is more familiar with Waterloo. When you ask people what they know about Napoleon most will know Waterloo and little else.

King’s Man

 

[thebritfarmer]

Sorry, I misread your statement. For the record I too would rather see British troops of the Peninsular War period rather than Waterloo. But the general public is more familiar with Waterloo. When you ask people what they know about Napoleon most will know Waterloo and little else.
King’s Man

It was a very popular song as well.

 

[Spitfrnd]

Sorry, I misread your statement. For the record I too would rather see British troops of the Peninsular War period rather than Waterloo. But the general public is more familiar with Waterloo. When you ask people what they know about Napoleon most will know Waterloo and little else.

King’s Man

So would I but I am happy to get even those since you can make them serve for that purpose without too much compromise.

 

[FirstLegion]

Sorry, I misread your statement. For the record I too would rather see British troops of the Peninsular War period rather than Waterloo. But the general public is more familiar with Waterloo. When you ask people what they know about Napoleon most will know Waterloo and little else.

King’s Man

For better or worse, doing Waterloo is something of a check list item I would say for any toy soldier company. Plus, it's an interesting battle and it allows for a great and varied representation of the French Army (where else can you do Old Guard Chasseurs in campaign dress actually fighting!), the Anglo-Allied Army (with all of its wonderful variety), and dare I say the (seldomly produced) Prussian Army. The latter of which are extremely important in my view because of the ability to use most of the 1815 Prussian Army in the campaigns of 1813-1814 not to mention for Ligny and Wavre as well...

 

[Dragoon]

For better or worse, doing Waterloo is something of a check list item I would say for any toy soldier company. Plus, it's an interesting battle and it allows for a great and varied representation of the French Army (where else can you do Old Guard Chasseurs in campaign dress actually fighting!), the Anglo-Allied Army (with all of its wonderful variety), and dare I say the (seldomly produced) Prussian Army. The latter of which are extremely important in my view because of the ability to use most of the 1815 Prussian Army in the campaigns of 1813-1814 not to mention for Ligny and Wavre as well...

Well Praise The Lord! It looks like someone is finally going to make some Napoleonic Prussians. Matt, I think your people at First Legion will do them beautifully. As Wellington said in the movie 'Waterloo',"Give Me Night, Or Give Me Blucher". Matt - Give us Blucher!

 

[Capitolron]

I have always been impressed with the large variety that First Legion has offered since coming into the market. Having just gotten back from one of my clients production facilities in KASSEL - Germany - I am going to look at the WESTPHALIA Troops more seriously and get them for my collection.

Great history with those guys and now I have a closer tie with them. King Jerome Bonaparte held the Capitol of the Kingdom of Westphalia in Kassel.

Great stuff !

 

[FirstLegion]

Well Praise The Lord! It looks like someone is finally going to make some Napoleonic Prussians. Matt, I think your people at First Legion will do them beautifully. As Wellington said in the movie 'Waterloo',"Give Me Night, Or Give Me Blucher". Matt - Give us Blucher!

Oh, wherever did you get that idea from??

 

[Spitfrnd]

For better or worse, doing Waterloo is something of a check list item I would say for any toy soldier company. Plus, it's an interesting battle and it allows for a great and varied representation of the French Army (where else can you do Old Guard Chasseurs in campaign dress actually fighting!), the Anglo-Allied Army (with all of its wonderful variety), and dare I say the (seldomly produced) Prussian Army. The latter of which are extremely important in my view because of the ability to use most of the 1815 Prussian Army in the campaigns of 1813-1814 not to mention for Ligny and Wavre as well...

Well checklist or not I say thank heaven for Waterloo, otherwise who knows how it would have taken to get those marvalous British Guards and the Guard Casseurs are a treat. It was indeed a interesting battle and worthy of checklist status. In that regard, to return to the point of this thread, I am hard pressed to find a battle with a more interesting tension and passion than Talavera. Of course for that one we should have some running Spanish, as well as needing to turn our running French around.

 

[damian]

Well I like the Siege of Badajoz and the story of Sir Harry meeting and marrying his young Bride on the battlements. There is a Ladysmith and a Harrysmith in SA as both went on to leave their mark on South African History.

 

[FirstLegion]

Well I like the Siege of Badajoz and the story of Sir Harry meeting and marrying his young Bride on the battlements. There is a Ladysmith and a Harrysmith in SA as both went on to leave their mark on South African History.

You aren't suggesting we do a wedding scene complete with battlement terrain piece, small tables, waiters, and cake are you??? I think you're in the wrong forum.

 

[damian]

You aren't suggesting we do a wedding scene complete with battlement terrain piece, small tables, waiters, and cake are you??? I think you're in the wrong forum.

I don't think the Smith's had time for all that.
Sponspek is the Afrikaans word for pomegranate which Jaunita loved to eat.
It means Spanish bacon in Afrikaans.
The Boers loved their meat and could not believe that this little Spanish lady would prefer a pomegranate for breakfast to some juicy bacon.
Maybe you could do the SIege of Ladysmith though in the future.

 

[Spitfrnd]

You aren't suggesting we do a wedding scene complete with battlement terrain piece, small tables, waiters, and cake are you??? I think you're in the wrong forum.

If that is the price of admission to the campaign, I'm for it.

 

[Spitfrnd]

I think we should keep this one going, the WWII thread is already out of hand and we need some balance I think. Other favorite Peninsular battles anyone?

 

[aujj65]

I think we should keep this one going, the WWII thread is already out of hand and we need some balance I think. Other favorite Peninsular battles anyone?

It's amazing what a bit of competition can do!

As for favourite Peninsular War battles?…….The Battles of Fuentes de Oñoro and Salamanca rank quite highly imho.

Jeff

 

[VIRIATO]

Portuguese Caçadores:
http://www.alliagedequalite.fr/nossoldatsdecollection/lots/portugais/detachementdetireurs.php

The Portuguese Army by Tradition:
http://www.traditionoflondon.com/index.asp?page=Home.asp#

Remember, ROLIÇA and BUÇACO were Peninsular Battles fought in PORTUGAL, not Spain...

But yes, we were under British comand (and were so untill the Brits were expelled).

Paulo

 

[Spitfrnd]

Portuguese Caçadores:
http://www.alliagedequalite.fr/nossoldatsdecollection/lots/portugais/detachementdetireurs.php

The Portuguese Army by Tradition:
http://www.traditionoflondon.com/index.asp?page=Home.asp#

Remember, ROLIÇA and BUÇACO were Peninsular Battles fought in PORTUGAL, not Spain...

....

Paulo of course they were and I wouldn't forget that for a moment. Now that you bring that up, the same naturally goes for Vimiero, Oporto and Almeida. The title of this thread borrows from some historians shorthand for Iberain portion of the Wars, probably since the usurpation of the Spanish throne was such a pivital part and the majority of the Peninsular battles were fought there. Of course, as I noted, many, if not most of these included Portuguese soldiers. Almeida was a bit anti clamatic but I would be very pleased to see any of the others featured, especially Buçaco.

Now if we can only get Matt to give us some of those troopers you posted.

 

[Spitfrnd]

I am now reading the Spanish Ulcer by David Gates, which appears to have a pretty fair coverage of the campaign and the battles, as well as the intrigues. I think now I would really love to do Fuentes de Onoro, what an amazing battle. I have discovered a number more that are generally not very well covered.