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Author Topic: Ottomans and Napoleon in Egypt?  (Read 3938 times)

Offline trev

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Ottomans and Napoleon in Egypt?
« on: March 20, 2023, 02:57:34 PM »
I assume many people got the email from Perry Miniatures yesterday showing off their new Napoleonic Ottoman range.  A very lovely start it is too. 

I used to be quite an Ottoman nerd and did a 15mm army years ago.  I've always fancied doing an Ottoman campaign in 28mm though and Egypt seems top of the list with the nice Perry range being quite full now.  Greek War of Independence being the other option, and I see there are some new figures for that now but I must try to focus.

Anyway, I've kept my hand in periodically, so have the two Chris Flaherty Ottoman books from Caliver and the nice Helion books on the British and French armies in Egypt plus some old stuff like Shaw, Crescent among the eagles etc.  So what else is there these days on the Egyptian campaign and the Ottomans?

From the Flaherty book the Ottoman army research still seems quite confused, especially on the New Model units.  I saw that Helion had done a new Bruno Mungai Napoleonic Ottoman Army book, so that's straight on order with high hopes.  Anything else I've missed?  Helion have An Egypt 1801 book by Stuart Reid and I saw there is a British Victory in Egypt by Piers Mackesy.  Any good?  I note there are a couple of Charles Grant volumes from Caliver on Napoleon's campaign in Egypt.  How do they compare to the Helion books?  They are a bit pricey for a blind punt.

Does anyone still have digital copies of Dragonman magazine?  I used to have them all from magweb but they were lost in a hard drive crash.  They had a nice Heliopolis scenario if memory serves.

Anyone wargaming this period now?  What rules are you using?  We mostly play Napoleonics with General d Brigade or General de Armee but they might be a bit big for Egypt.  I'm not sure I want to do big units all in metal anyway.  That will get expensive.
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Re: Ottomans and Napoleon in Egypt?
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2023, 01:13:32 PM »
170 views and no replies, so I guess this is still a pretty niche period.

The Perry figures of the New Order Ottoman troops are very nice and more traditional regiments are coming.  The word is that they have been waiting for good source books to do this project. The Flaherty book from Caliver and Bruno Mungai book from Helion are those sources, so we can probably expect miniatures based on the images in those.  Presumably some Arnauts, Mamelukes, Cairo Janissaries etc. given the Egyptian ranges they already do, but they have said they'll do figures usable for the Danube front too.  Chris Flaherty seems to have been assisting with the research.  Some plastics would be great but is probably hoping for too much.  There are also already a few miniatures in the Sudan range that could be used as-is or converted, especially the bashi-bazouks. 

For scenarios and wargaming there is a Napoleonic Scenarios 4  for General de Brigade.  It comes with special rules for the Turks using GDB.  Also there is the Wargamers guide to the Napoleonic Ottoman Army which has more generic advice.  None of the books above is a real Codex for the Ottomans though, so you'll still need to piece things together.

Some other useful figures can be found here
Trent Miniatures - Ottomans
Old man's creations - Greek War Independence
Steve Barber - Greek War Independence

That's what I know anyway, all comments welcome.

Offline Von Stroheim

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Re: Napoleon in Egypt?
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2023, 02:34:43 PM »
Brigade Games have quite an extensive range of Ottomans designed by Paul Hicks

https://www.brigadegames.com/Ottoman_c_348.html

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Re: Napoleon in Egypt?
« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2023, 03:30:27 PM »
They do!  Very nice Paul Hicks sculpts too, I think.  Can’t believe I forgot them.   ;D

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Re: Napoleon in Egypt?
« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2023, 10:26:55 PM »
My focus is on the French Revolution period, from the Vendee to the West Indies to Flanders.  I am doing this in 15mm with Blue Moon and AB.  I am very tempted to do Egypt, and also the Austro-Turkish war.

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Re: Napoleon in Egypt?
« Reply #5 on: March 24, 2023, 09:07:13 AM »
Nice, have you got any pictures?  My daughter did the French Revolution for A level history and I helped her revise, so I'm a bit of a Jacobin now.  :D

AB do some really nice Ottoman troops. I have some in my, now sadly neglected, 15mm army.

I've got some good details on some of the 1788 war battles in one old source and a modern academic book on the Bosnian militia.  I always thought the Grenzer/Turkish skirmishing would make for fun games.  There was a detail I read somewhere that Napoleon offered to help the Sultan fight the Serbs, even going so far as to offer to dress up his troops like Turks.  That would make a twist to a scenario, if some of the Janissaries turn out to be veteran French Fusiliers.  An alternative use for ACW Zouaves maybe.

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Re: Ottomans and Napoleon in Egypt?
« Reply #6 on: March 24, 2023, 12:39:30 PM »
Matchlock miniatures do  a range of 28mm Napoleonic Ottomans  that look pretty nice.

http://www.miniaturefigurines.co.uk/Catalogue.aspx?ScaleID=14&CategoryID=36&SubCategoryID=328


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Re: Ottomans and Napoleon in Egypt?
« Reply #7 on: March 24, 2023, 01:50:23 PM »
Would love to see a range of ottoman troops of the french revolutionary period ie austro-russian-turkish war

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Re: Ottomans and Napoleon in Egypt?
« Reply #8 on: March 24, 2023, 01:55:31 PM »
Matchlock miniatures do  a range of 28mm Napoleonic Ottomans  that look pretty nice.

http://www.miniaturefigurines.co.uk/Catalogue.aspx?ScaleID=14&CategoryID=36&SubCategoryID=328

Doh!  Of course they do.  My memory is worse than my Search-foo.  Thanks for the reminder though, this thread will at least serve as a list for others now.  Those Matchlock figures are nice but sadly there are no variations.

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Re: Ottomans and Napoleon in Egypt?
« Reply #9 on: March 24, 2023, 02:00:07 PM »
Would love to see a range of ottoman troops of the french revolutionary period ie austro-russian-turkish war

That would be nice and reminds me of another manufacturer.  Maybe these are slightly too early for the purist, more c1700, but probably passable for the 1780s.

https://www.leagueofaugsburg.com/shop/products-subcat-57.html
https://www.leagueofaugsburg.com/shop/products-subcat-61.html

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Re: Ottomans and Napoleon in Egypt?
« Reply #10 on: March 24, 2023, 02:08:20 PM »
I did some of this a while back using Rebels and Patriots-the cheap and cheerful approach.  It might be of interest.

https://youdonotknowthenorth.blogspot.com/search/label/Mamluks

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Re: Ottomans and Napoleon in Egypt?
« Reply #11 on: March 24, 2023, 02:31:14 PM »
Doh!  Of course they do.  My memory is worse than my Search-foo.  Thanks for the reminder though, this thread will at least serve as a list for others now.  Those Matchlock figures are nice but sadly there are no variations.

Yes you'd think they would have done a few head variations at least. Not that it matters once/if the Perry's do a full range that would be my go to anyway.

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Re: Ottomans and Napoleon in Egypt?
« Reply #12 on: March 24, 2023, 02:32:33 PM »
I am more interested in the Ottomans post Napoleonic Wars, chiefly the 1840 Syrian campaign. In addition to the Paul Hicks sculpted Brigade Games range, there are also some useful 28mm figures from of all people Minifigs. Dunno how they scale up with others but the figures look quite decent.

http://www.miniaturefigurines.co.uk/Catalogue.aspx?ScaleID=14&CategoryID=36&SubCategoryID=328

There's also a chap on LAF making figures for the Greek Wars of independence and quite a number of those cpuld be pressed into service as Albanians, Bashi Bazouks etc.

https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=128797.0

Speaking of BBs, I just discovered that Perry do a small selection in their Sudan range.
Em dezembro de '81
Botou os ingleses na roda
3 a 0 no Liverpool
Ficou marcado na história
E no Rio não tem outro igual
Só o Flamengo é campeão mundial
E agora seu povo
Pede o mundo de novo

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Re: Ottomans and Napoleon in Egypt?
« Reply #13 on: March 24, 2023, 03:10:08 PM »
Dixons have a large Napoleon in Egypt range as well as some Ottomans(Bosnians etc).  They are listed as 25mm.

https://www.dixon-minis.com/shop/napoleonic-wars-25mm/

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Re: Ottomans and Napoleon in Egypt?
« Reply #14 on: March 24, 2023, 10:32:55 PM »
I did some of this a while back using Rebels and Patriots-the cheap and cheerful approach.  It might be of interest.

https://youdonotknowthenorth.blogspot.com/search/label/Mamluks

Those are great.  I've not played R&P but I like the other 'rampant' rules.  My club mates are into big Napoleonics 24-36 figure units and lots of them.  That will get very pricey and require a lot of painting.  I'm not sure I'm that focused.

I did find this blog with some battles and a set of rules that uses smaller units but is not a skirmish game.  Maybe worth further investigation.

http://stracmark.blogspot.com/search/label/French%20in%20Egypt

I am more interested in the Ottomans post Napoleonic Wars, chiefly the 1840 Syrian campaign. In addition to the Paul Hicks sculpted Brigade Games range, there are also some useful 28mm figures from of all people Minifigs. Dunno how they scale up with others but the figures look quite decent.

The rise of Muhammed Ali Pasha is certainly an interesting story.  He arguably made a better fist of reform than the Ottomans did.  Unfortunately, I think those Minifigs are old and true 25s.  Unless you mean the newer Matchlock figures sold by Minifigs.  The link didn't work for me, so I'm not certain. 

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There's also a chap on LAF making figures for the Greek Wars of independence and quite a number of those cpuld be pressed into service as Albanians, Bashi Bazouks etc.

https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=128797.0

Speaking of BBs, I just discovered that Perry do a small selection in their Sudan range.

The LAF one is I think the Old man's creations figures I linked to above but they would make good Arnauts.  The Perry Sudan and possibly the Muslim Crusade range has some troops that might be useful.

I found what happened to the Westfalia Persians too.  They are now sold by Black Hussar Miniatures.

Dixons have a large Napoleon in Egypt range as well as some Ottomans(Bosnians etc).  They are listed as 25mm.

https://www.dixon-minis.com/shop/napoleonic-wars-25mm/

Thanks, I didn't know of them.  Pity they don't have pictures. 

 

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