South American Wars

[Mr Mipps]

Just thought I'd pop in as I haven't visited for a while and let you see the first figures for the South American Wars of Liberation.

The first battalion for the Army of the Andes, the 11th regiment



And the Burgos regiment for the Royalists



All figures are from the new Parkfield 28mm range covering this period.

[Florida Tory]

Very well done!

Rick

[Mindenbrush]

Nice work 

What rules are you using? I played a Mexican-American game at Historicon last year using modified Regimental F&F so was considering 15mm but those 28's look more enticing 

[carlos marighela]

Wow!, They really do look quite nice. Must have another look at Parkfield.

[Mr Mipps]

And artillery coming soon

[Alejandro]

Exelent miniatures I am fromArgentina, General San Martin's land, the American Libertator.
I think that we should have a range for this period, but not...we import all the miniaturas.

Bye.

[Lt. Hazel]

Nice, I don´t know anything about the liberation wars except that they...yes liberated the south american countries from Spain. Would you be so kind to take some pics of the flags?

[dm]

They are stunning 8)and a period of history sadly lacking on the wargames table

[aecurtis]

Not so lacking, really.  John Fletcher at Grenadier Productions has produced a fine series of reference bookelts--including rules--and a nice range of 18mm figures:

http://www.grenadierproductions.com/

And enthusiasts like Steven Thomas also promote the period; check out Steven's army galleies (mostly Grenadier 18mm, plus some other manufacturers):

http://www.balagan.org.uk/war/liberators/index.htm

[Edit] Forgot to mention--John also maintains an active Yahoo group, which includes a number of very serious researchers on the period:

http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Liberators1810-1830/

Allen

[Mr Mipps]

The first of the cavalry are now done, including the Argentinian mounted grenadiers as well as Royalist cavalry wearing braided dolman, which can also be used for San martin's Generals Escort.





Together with some artillery for both sides

[seldon]

The miniatures are spectacular !

Indeed the period is not so lacking, John Fletcher has done spectacular work in the subject as evidence by the previous posted link.

I had the fortune of meet him when I went to Cold Wars a couple of years ago when the theme was indeed the Latin American Wars of Independence and I ran a game based on the battle of Maipu. My armies are all John's 15s

Here is a link to some info on that game
http://www.greathallgamers.org/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=465

One big advantage of the period is that main historical battles were engagements involving division sized forces by european standards, and so divisional size rules ( such as Lasalle, General de Brigade, NaW, etc ) fit the bill pretty well

cheers
Francisco

[carlos marighela]

So little love for the Cisplatine War, which really is a fascinating and fairly manageable war to game. Well it would be if there were suitable cavalry figures.

[workerBee]

   I guess it depends on scale too.

Having moved to 1/600th for all future (non-skirmish) large battle to large scale war games, I am looking to see what is substitutable for specialist uniforms.   

I am thinking most early to middle 19th Century troops can be represented by Napoleonics and ACW figures for my interests.

Soldados de Cuera and Presidials so far have kept me in 25+ mm figures for some games.

Gracias,

Glenn

[Conquistador]

Posting from home now - hopefully I will be able to find the figures above and find rules (yes, I know Liberators exist and may go that route.) 

Wars using armies from America, Spain, and Spanish/Latin American parts of the Americas are much of what I will be taking into retirement (and moving to New Mexico) with me.     Even my Gothic Horror (North Mexico before the MAW,) VSF (Spain on Venus,) and Science Fiction (inspired by GZG's LIRA) have Spanish elements.  About the only non-aeronautical themed part of my war games that doesn't have such is my Fantasy.  Spanish Dwarves and Goblins?  That might be a stretch...

Gracias,

Glenn

[Mr Mipps]

Just a quick update,  the British 'volunteers' have now started arriving, so for those who prefer to use red coats: