My Battle of Almanza Project

[vcina]

So I have finished up my first unit of French for my WSS Battle of Almanza project.  Here's a quick little write up and some photos.

https://operationwargaming.blogspot.com/2017/06/1st-unit-of-wss-french-completed.html

[jambo1]

Looking good!! I like the OG 10mm stuff as it does paint up quickly. Looking forward to seeing your progress on your project.

[vcina]

Finished up another French unit.



https://operationwargaming.blogspot.com/2017/07/2nd-unit-of-wss-french-completed.html

[vcina]

I finished a third unit for my project.The Berwick battalions arrives!

https://operationwargaming.blogspot.com/2017/07/the-berwick-battalion-arrives-to-help.html

[jambo1]

Very nice indeed!! Your project is taking place very nicely indeed. The flags look great by the way.

[vcina]

Thank you!

[vcina]

Finished up the Barrois Battalion.

https://operationwargaming.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-barrois-battalion-arrives.html

[DintheDin]

Your blog is very interesting, I wish you good luck with your project!

[vcina]

Thank you

[DintheDin]

Thank you

I would greatly appreciate if you could provide any links with the battle description, Orders of Battle, etc.
Thank you in advance!

[vcina]

I would greatly appreciate if you could provide any links with the battle description, Orders of Battle, etc.
Thank you in advance!

http://www.wfgamers.org.uk/resources/C18/almanza.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Almansa

The Orders of Battle that I have are in printed form so I can't post a link for that.

[DintheDin]

Thank you very much for your help!

[vcina]

I've completed two more units for my WSS project.  The photos are here: [url]https://operationwargaming.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-royal-des-vaisseaux-and-la-sarre.html[\url]

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[Sunjester]

Interestingly we are going to be playing Almanza in 10mm using Black Powder and the Tring Club's October games day.  To make it a more balanced game for both sides I'm making it a "what-if" scenario and adding in the Catalan army under the Earl of Peterborough.

I'm using the WFGamers fantastic resource as the basis of my scenario, why not when someone has done such a good job of the hard work?

Unlike your fantastic project, I am not creating the armies from scratch but pooling the figures from 4 club members so we will be using a few stand-ins. No one has Portuguese so Bavarians will be substituted for them and the ratios of British:Dutch and French:Spanish will be a bit off. Probably the most obscure units are the Catalan forces, but I already have those in my collection!

I'm looking forward to seeing this project continue to grow.

[vcina]

That sounds like a great project.  I would love to see photos of it and how you like using Black Powder for a rule set.  That's great that you are able to cobble together the troops without having a go at it from scratch. No one else in my group has figures for this period so it's up to me.

I too am using the WFGamers resource along with a few others to put all of this together.