Les rêves de Mars

RIGHT, on to that battle report! (Note: click on any photo to enlarge).  I've played many a game now using BLACK POWDER for Napoleonics, but this was my first time using it for the SYW.  Befo...

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I have been ignoring this blog for well over six months, for the simple reason that I was not doing any 18th C. gaming.  Those members of our club here in Tokyo who are into the Horse-and-Mus...

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WHILE prowling YouTube I came across this rather interesting video of FIW reenactors, which I have posted here because it gives a good view of the off-white colour of French infantry justeaucorps...

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NO updates for ages now.  Clearly the history professors beavering away at La Bibliothèque Nationale de la Lorraine, poring over the documents relating the stirring tales of M. le Marquis have...

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AS the poster says!  I've been thinking of which miniatures to use for LES HUSSARDS DE SARKOZY, and have decided that the ones that best suit my particular bill are THESE by THE FOUNDRY, w...

http://marquissangfroid.blogspot.com/2010/05/wanted-for-service-good-men-with-eye.html

click to enlarge The Marquis wrote: "The outfitting of  L’armée de l’Oise proceeded apace, with overall efficiency and considerable expense- particulary on my part.  Monies for uni...

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I have been asked to provide a uniform plate of the NOBLE VOLUNTEER COMPANY OF VINTNERS as introduced in my previous post, and find myself most happy to oblige.   Fortunately, the standard ...

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His Excellency, THE 10TH MARQUIS DE SANGFROID, COMTE DE ROUE AND THE PRINCE ECCLESIASTICAL OF THE BISHOPRIC OF ST. VIGNOBLES. This vignette is based on a written description of a painting by ...

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THERE is an old Jewish proverb to the effect that one should be careful of what one prays for, as God may answer your prayers!  In my case, the gift from the Gods above is that I found another...

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Just click on map to enlarge The Marquis needs an arch-nemesis to threaten his holdings on the Rhine. And after mulling over the options for a while, here it is.  The Principality of Nass...

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...is this old Wargames Foundry Marlburian dragoon that I came across in the bottom of my "spares" box, and which I quickly decided would be attached to l'Armée de l'Oise. I must have bought h...

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JUST got back late last night from that marathon training session, and allowed myself the luxury of sleeping in this morning. Work will still occupy a lot of my time over the next few weeks, but ...

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I'M writing this post from a convention centre where I'm in the middle of running a week-long training course. So no pictures to post and no progress to report, seeing as my miniatures are over 1...

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I have had a fruitful day's painting. I've been working steadily away on the Regt. de Condé, and moreover have finally begun work on painting "Our Hero" himself! I've had the miniature for a w...

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Those of you who check any of my blogs from time to time undoubtedly realize by now that I have the attention span of an inebriated moth with a memory disorder. For good or ill I have always ...

http://marquissangfroid.blogspot.com/2009/05/je-suis-retourne-regt-de-conde-and-some.html

Late 19th C. manuscript displaying a montage of regiments and uniforms including that of the Brigade de Bouillon-Cantinat, along with a miniature of its commander, The Chevalier de St. Estamp...

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"As the summer turned into autumn in that eventful year of 1743, we laboured ceaselessly on forging l'armee de l'Oise, seeking through our efforts to sharpen it into a finely-honed foil with whi...

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Another template courtesy of "Not by Appointment" ! "During the lengthy process of retraining and refitting l'armee de l'Oise at Thionville, it was necessary to keep the enemy from looking to ...

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click on image to enlarge. In the words of M. le Marquis... "As the French army licked its grievous wounds after the Battle of Dettingen at the newly-constructed camp at Thionville, our time ...

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C'est fini. Click to enlarge. Update- I forget the grenadiers! Duly added- thanks to "Capt. Bill" for bringing their absence to my attention!

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The cavalry of L’armée Française de l’Oise. Brigade Colonel-General Regt. Colonel-General Regt. de la Reine Regt. Dauphin Brigade Bouillon-Cantinat Regt. Bouillon-Cantinat Regt. Cont...

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A quick question for my learned colleagues. Aside from Front Rank and some rather dire looking figures from The Foundry, does anyone know of a -good- range of 18th C. French cavalry out ther...

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...IS of course the infantry. I've been working on designing a force to take on the Pragmatic Alliance (See here ), and have created the semi-fictional L’armée Française de l’Oise, in t...

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M. le Marquis is well-pleased to have received a wonderful book celebrating his sovereign majesty's greatest victory of the age- Fontenoy in 1745. You can read a little more about it here . ...

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I've been working on the Pragmatic Army recently on my Will ye go to Flanders blog, and haven't posted here for a while. So let me remedy this with a plate showing what will be a brigade of re...

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