Recruiting The Armies

I VIRTUALLY never buy ready-painted wargaming figures.

But since Mike Lambo's Battles Of Napoleonic Europe is a boardgame, I decided to make an exception and ordered 10mm armies from Transylvania-based WoFun.

Their full-colour 2D plexiglass figures are in effect flats, but give something of a 3D effect.

Wofun has a large range, and selecting French troops was not a problem, but my Allied forces will be entirely British, as no Spanish or Portuguese models are available.

Front, rear and side views of British infantry, plus a command base

Infantry - and cavalry, for that matter - start with a strength of 3, so three bases make a unit, fitting nicely on a hex, with a command base for added colour

Front, rear and side views of French cavalry, plus a command base

French cavalry arranged as a full-strength unit on a hex

Front and rear views of French artillery

Artillery are fiddly to put together, but thankfully they have a strength of only 2, so a unit fits easily on a hex

An army needs a general, and here is Sir Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of Wellington