15MM NAPOLEONICS - The Black Legion (Leib Battalion)

I got a couple of hours yesterday to sit down and crack on with my first unit of 15mm Napoleonics, the Brunswick Leib Battalion. The figures are Essex Miniatures that I have had for a while, an impulse buy after reading an article in a magazine about the Black Legion. Now for all you die hard Napoleonics players I believe these are in the 1809 garb not the Hundred Days garb but they may get outings in both and I am quite happy using them for both. Andy Canham asked if I was going the Gauntlet this year and I can get there on the Saturday so we are going to put on a 15mm Napoleonics game using the Black Powder rules. So I have quite a bit to get painted between now and July. Still need bases finished.

15MM NAPOLEONICS - The Black Legion

During the recent Crisis Point weekend I got talking with fellow gamer Andy Canham from the Deeside Defenders about their recent 15mm Black Powder Napoleonic game and how much it brought back memories of playing SYW games with 15mm Essex Figures and after a few emails I decided to paint some Essex Brunswick figures I bought on impulse after an article in one of the magazines.

Now it has been about 10 years since I painted a 15mm figure as I was out of the hobby for a few years and for the last 4 years have been concentrating on 6mm Moderns and 20mm Moderns but with the renewed enthusiasm from Andy and Co. at Deeside I decided it was time!

I had a few packs of Leib Battalion and I have also got some Light Infantry to do. First up I thought I best see how my painting skills were after 10 years of painting Russian Green! I started by just painting 3 of the Leib Battalion figures to see if I was happy with them. I have been reading a bit about the 'Black Legion' as they were known and I have since realised that the Essex Figures are earlier (1809 ish) not Hundred Days figures. But as there is only one battalion I am not too bothered.

So the first three!