Just finished a couple of battalions of the new Perry plastic Napoleonics and some guns. I intend to finish the bases once I have painted another gun and crew with 4 Polish, 2 Vistula, and 2 French battalions plus generals. These are to be used with the rules Barry Hilton is going to produce, Republic to Empire. I've had a few playtests and like them very much.
I have done these up as 4th Polish regt. Dont be confused by the shako as the 3 Polish regiments (4th, 7th, 9th) sent to Spain used a lot of French equipment from 1810 onwards and by 1812 most wore the shako instead of the czapka. The artillery (Perry French metal) changed completely in 1809 and they provided a battery in Spain.
The plastics can even be used as Vistula Legion with a little work on the cuff and shako plate.
I'd really like to do some lancers but my favourites Front Rank dont do the elite companies in bearskin or colpack which most of the 15 lancer regiments wore. But the lancers did not go to Spain which is the theatre of choice for my WAB buddies at SESWC. So I guess I'll go with Perry chasseurs a cheval instead.
The guns need limbers and caissons but I am going to wait till Barry has decided on base sizes. Bicorne do some nice ones and I will probably shop there.
