I've been collecting these excellent figures from Gringo40 for a while and have had them painted for me by Dave Baker. As the range has grown my collected has expanded to the point where I have enough figs to put on a Minigame encounter from Neil Thomas's 19thC Wargaming.
Ged's figures are tall and fairly robust, but they are very well sculpted and animated with particular attention paid to the bewhiskered features of some of the men. Particular praise must go to the Picciotti - a nefarious bunch of brigands and bandits who gave their support to the Redshirts but when the Bourbon regime collapsed returned to their form and became a thorn in the side of Sicilian and southern Italian life on a more and more organised basis as time went by. Other particularly nice figures are the Cavalry including an officer in a fetching mantle or cloak and the Horse Artillery crew.
I am assured that more figures will be forthcoming before Xmas and I really can't wait.
Meanwhile some of my figs saw action on Tuesday night in a fire is set of skirmishes. Some pics of the latter are below.
In Neil's rules the Neapolitans are truely dire as his morale rating for them is "Rabble" . Although this reflects both poor training and leadership as well as a lack of esprit de corps, it's possibly a little harsh with the poor chaps losing most morale tests meaning bases fly off the units at an unsustainable rate. Three battles were fought with Garibaldi's men prevailing in two and only the timely commitment (or tardy arrival !) of reserves saving the day and Bourbon honour in the third. Still these are good fun and all who took part enjoyed.
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