Chasseur Ardennais

 

 Chassuers Ardennais 1st Regiment 

Completed four more rifle companies of FAA and Blitz/Battlefield and Early War miniatures for my First Chassuer Ardennais regiment. These chaps have been awaiting completion since the end of March and as I am going through a completion and clearing of my desk I thought I should get them done 100% including company markings on the rear of the base. Really happy with the results. I still have another battalion to build, however I hope to use FAA for them too, but with the tariffs all over the place. I will need to continue my search online I think for used ones. 

1st company 

Second company 

Third company 

Fourth company 

Light mortar attached to HQ

LMG attached to each company 

Cheers

Matt

Battle of Agincourt - Test of Resolve

 Battle of Agincourt - Test of Resolve

David has been on a Wargame holiday with us again this time for 6 nights. David also brought along the third scenario book for the Hundred Years’ War.  As our opener we played Agincourt as our opening game, then we play-tested a number of scenarios that will be in the fourth Scenario book for the Scottish Wars, which will be released later this year I believe. As normal we also visited a number of chateaux, drank lots of wine and had a great week wondering around Brittany and Pays de Loire. 

French First Battle (second and third off table) 

French right flank

English Line 

English line MAA 

English line 

English archer line right flank 

English Archer line left flank 

Jean de Harcourt 

Just a few hits from the English archers ….

First losses to the English Archery arrow storm

French mounted MAA sprint across the table towards the flank 

The MAA clash 

Things are looking shaky for the English MAA

Two English men at Arms Break

Cheers

Matt

Marshal Marmont

 When we visited the museum at Châtillon-sur-Seine I also visited the Marchal Marmont room of the museum, and later we visited his townhouse (by then my battery was flat) but missed photos. The few I did take are here. 

Treasure of Vix

 We visited Burgundy two weeks ago and as usual we spent time visiting museums, charming villages, sampling the local food and drinking wine. One of the visits we planned was to Châtillon-sur-Seine and the treasure of Vix. Now I had seen images of the vase and burial pieces, but like Sutton Hoo I was unprepared into how fabulous it was. The vase stands at 1.64m (5.4ft) and has the most fantastic carving and motifs surrounding the handles and rim. The gold Torc is also incredible, with the finest gold working I have seen on a la Tene period piece. The burial representation also was fantastic especially the reconstruction of the chariot wheels. The museum also houses a large number of Roman period pieces and items of Marshal Marmont who was locally born and is also buried in Châtillon-sur-Seine. 

I would certainly encourage you to visit this museum, it is a real gem.