Long time no posts!
I've moved from my long-time home of Charlotte, NC to my future retirement location of Southport, NC. Life is great but losing your wargame buddies of 30+ years is hard!!!!
I have found a couple wargamers here, but they are scattered and hard to coordinate a time to play. Sigh.
Good news is that I have found many gamers for Euro Style games that my family loves to play, so I'm gaming once a week in that area.
Here is a couple photos of the new place and views. All photos are clickable for larger resolution.
Being on a wargaming hiatus has given me time to focus on painting miniatures, which I have done in months if not years! I do have a new "war room" above the garage, but roughly half the storage of my old massive house. I may have to start selling off collections\games.
Tonkin Wars
I have a lot of Boxer Rebellion miniatures and some can be used as double-duty in the jungles\rice fields of Tonkin during the late 1800s.
French Army
Most, if not all, of the miniatures are rare 15mm Frontier figures. I have put together this small force, which can represent about 6000 to 8000 troops. This was the size of most French columns in the war. I have plenty of Chinese from my Boxer Rebellion collection, but I do have to paint some Black Flag units (I have the figures, just need the time). My French army is comprised of the following units:
2 x Line Infantry battalions
2 x French Foreign Legion
2 x Fusilier Marin
2 x Turcos
1 x Zouaves
1 x Annamite Riflemen (Tirailleur) - Could be used as Tonkinese.
1 x Tonkinese Riflemen - Could be used as Annamites
1 x Chinese Riflemen
2 x Sailors
1 x Gun (Sailors)
I have to make a couple more command stands and artillery units. Gunboats would be used from my Boxer range. French used the Hotchkiss gun\cannon from their gunboats to great effect.
Some photos of the army (only about half showing):
Link to some gunboat photos from my Boxer collection.
Some sketches of the combat in the war:
NOTE: I have PDF on the conflict that I have cobbled together, so if you would like a copy just email at my new email: ericbu2025 AT gmail DOT com.
NOTE 2: if you happen to have extra Frontier miniatures from the Boxer rebellion range let me know and I may purchase them from you. I'm mainly looking from French Marines, which I can paint as line or legion.
Game on!
Eric
Best of luck with retirement, you certainly have picked a good place.
ReplyDeleteHey Eric! Great to see you are doing some wargaming stuff. I did that same period a few years ago using 28-30mm from Gringo but he stopped adding to it though he kept promising he would come back. It's been ages now and all he pumps out is 1960-1970 Vietnam war.
ReplyDeleteI got some buildings that scale too and added to my jungle. Also have some boats plus a wide river which can take up most of my table for riverine scenarios.
Sadly I dont play it much though. I did do a few convention games though. I use Pikeman's Lament rules - even though wrong era and no pikeman definitely. The rules engine works well, my local group enjoys it.
Your retirement locale looks spectacular!
Thanks folks. I think I have the right retirement location. :-) Just need to do more miniature wargaming!! @Joseph did you ever blog about your Tonkin games?
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