Author Topic: Hungarian Revolutionary War of 1848- a 28mm project (Read 25905 times)

Emir of Askaristan · « **Reply #60 on:** 28 December 2022, 02:56:01 PM »

Russians en masse, very nice.

Freddy · « **Reply #61 on:** 29 December 2022, 09:37:42 AM »

Thank you guys! To be honest, for a Napoleonic era army, they were kinda easy to paint: no embroidery, no backpacks, all the same pose.

CapnJim · « **Reply #62 on:** 31 December 2022, 05:11:43 PM »

More great looking minis. Well done, lad!

Freddy · « **Reply #63 on:** 01 January 2023, 11:05:35 AM »

Quote from: CapnJim on 31 December 2022, 05:11:43 PM

More great looking minis. Well done, lad!

Thank you! There is a guy here who offered some painted minis for sale. They will need their bases reworked, but at least this way I will quickly have some Austrian cavalry and artillery too.

Freddy · « **Reply #64 on:** 27 January 2023, 05:47:20 PM »

Betyár, this was the name of Hungarian outlaws in the 18-19th century. They are often seen as romantic, Robin Hood like figures, but in the reality most of them only caused suffering for the people. Of course, they did some good deeds too, usually to people offering them food and hiding places from the law. They lived outside the towns in the nature: plains, forests and swamps, from here they hit animal herds to take some cattle for sale, also often did highwaymen jobs too.

In 1848 some of them were offered pardon in return to join the revolutionary army, and they formed an irregular unit. After they sacked and massacred a Serbian village, their unit was disbanded. After 1849 a lot of former honvéds became betyárs themselves, choosing the outlaw life over the conscription into the Habsburg army (there were a lot of army deserters among their ranks before 1848 too, army service being 10-20 years back then). The era of betyárs ended forever after the weak county based law enforcement was replaced by the Royal Hungarian Gendarmerie in the 1880s.

I wanted him to do something betyár-y, so he is stealing a little pig. His weapon is a pistol, in reality they often carried 2 or more. The other one is the "fokos", a small axe with a long handle being the common weapon of 18-19th century Hungarian civilians (basically the Colt Peacemaker of old Hungary).

Emir of Askaristan · « **Reply #65 on:** 27 January 2023, 07:46:21 PM »

Nice character ...and background too.

Freddy · « **Reply #66 on:** 29 January 2023, 11:39:00 AM »

Quote from: Emir of Askaristan on 27 January 2023, 07:46:21 PM

Nice character ...and background too.

Thanks! I am still thinking about how to incorporate them into the games. The betyárs were mostly riders, "getting" a good horse being their first task if they wanted to successfully run from the law. So I will need a cavalry unit for them- maybe also a small infantry one, or model some on foot, but add a guy who is holding the horses? I am still thinking.

MaleGriffin · « **Reply #67 on:** 29 January 2023, 05:53:50 PM »

Amazing project!

Emir of Askaristan · « **Reply #68 on:** 29 January 2023, 08:16:38 PM »

Quote from: Freddy on 29 January 2023, 11:39:00 AM

Thanks! I am still thinking about how to incorporate them into the games. The betyárs were mostly riders, "getting" a good horse being their first task if they wanted to successfully run from the law. So I will need a cavalry unit for them- maybe also a small infantry one, or model some on foot, but add a guy who is holding the horses? I am still thinking.

Looters perhaps....with geese and hens? Or a horse holder and a sniper? These chaps are crying out to be a little vignette.

Khmorg · « **Reply #69 on:** 30 January 2023, 05:32:09 AM »

Very interesting job. I had never heard of Betyár before.
I will erase the shapes of your project with great interest.

Thank you very much

Freddy · « **Reply #70 on:** 30 January 2023, 06:15:10 PM »

Thanks, guys! Betyárs themselves might be even worth a skirmish game on their own.... oh no, too many projects already. There was a movie about them (The Wind Blows Under Your Feet, 1976), it plays in the 1830s on the Hungarian plains, basically a western movie. I did not find a proper teaser, maybe this one is worth to click through for the aesthetics. (Music might be too loud)

I sometimes go to motorbike tours on the old highway where the betyárs used to rob people (in the late 19th century the new highway was built a few kms from there, so the old one is still a mud road as it was centuries ago), also there is the little hill for the gallows where they were executed and buried.

Emir of Askaristan · « **Reply #71 on:** 30 January 2023, 10:30:58 PM »

It's very Western like.

Looks good...or at least as good ans any western of the same period !

Freddy · « **Reply #72 on:** 06 February 2023, 05:57:05 PM »

A battle with the new toy soldiers- Bolt action, but distances halved. The Russians started with some good command rolls, but their concentrated attack through the bottleneck in the middle failed to crush the Hungarian line in one strike. The luck now turned towards the Hungarians and General Damjanich managed to outflank the Russians on the right flank while the left flank held just enough to buy some time for the centre. The revolution was saved- for now...

Now both sides are thinking about how to maneuver NOT to render the artillery unisable with the first step, also how to get some cavalry to protect the flanks/outflank the enemy.