July’s Painting of Prussian Epic

Well it was certainly pushing it, but last night I hit the painting goal for July with three battalions of Prussians done. The last bit of flocking went on just before midnight! In fact I did a little more than the July plan had proposed. 

Also rather than going with the bare minimum two bases per battalion, I have managed three bases, which is where I want all of the Epic napoleonic battalions to be once enough bases have been painted.

So, painted and based in July, we have;

Two battalions of Prussian Musketeers (white webbing)

One battalion of Prussian Fusiliers (black webbing)

One company (1 base) of Prussian Jäger

One Prussian gun battery (2 models)

Two mounted Prussian Commanders

I also managed to get a few items done for the French which are shown (blurred!) at the front in the photo;

One French Gun battery (2 models)

Two mounted Colonel’s

I got a little fed up doing these by week three, but a push towards the end of two painting sessions a day saw me get over the line and now seeing them as a group, I am quite pleased with the work that went into them.

They now form the initial building blocks of my Prussian ‘Pocket Army’, but I will quickly expand it with a couple of battalions of Landwehr, a regiment of Lancers plus a company or two of extra jägers. That should at least give me a force that can cover all of the scenarios in the Neil Thomas book - One Hour Wargames, though I will also have to do some cavalry for the French for that to happen.

I have been looking for a scenario that would work with just a few battalions of Prussians and that brought me to 15th June 1815, the day before the Battle of Ligny. In crossing into Belgium, the French army started to come into contact with Prussian outposts, pushing them back in as the French advanced.

Zieten’s I Corps had decided to fall back on Gilly and I am working on a themed action for something in that area involving a Prussian rearguard.

Anyway, there we are, hopefully I can get these to the table soon.

As always, there are more regular updates on my COMMANDERS pages; LINK

https://commanders.simdif.com/dear_diary.html

Just a bit of Wargame AI fun

 

I came across someone talking about using the nauknauk AI app to animate their figures. 

I put this together in under 5 minutes. I doubt I will do much with this type of material, but I can see it having some presentational uses and if you get just the right photo (mine was just grabbed from my photo library of Warlord Games Epic ACW because I was impatient), some spectacular results will no doubt be possible.

The below video is just 5 seconds long.

I just basically uploaded the photo and then instructed the AI to make the soldiers march forwards.

LINK

https://youtu.be/uSZUNSeReMI?si=aMW-w8zbFQgWTXuf

Oh No! Another one :-)

Link

https://youtube.com/shorts/fI4h2EK9ooQ?si=BmYbJABK5i2Oc4Oy

If any of this interests you, have a look at Nik’s Blog and be amazed!

Link

https://youtu.be/CqfDKs385Is?si=PC-VUFcxh14QC03v

Following in Blogger’s Blog List

As a blogger, using Google’s own Blogger software, it used to be very easy to follow another blogger, you just clicked the FOLLOW button on their blog and new posts would automatically be shown in your own blog reader section (the MY BLOGLIST GADGET).

As I understand it, the automation on Blogger’s Reader List gadget is no longer fully functioning and some manual steps are needed to get the Blogger Reader to pull the latest posts in. No doubt other external blog readers work fine, this post just refers to the ‘Blogger’ reader.

Anyway, here is a description of the steps necessary to deal with that;

On your own blog page, you should have the gadget called MY BLOGLIST, check your LAYOUT if it needs adding.

When browsing the blog you want to follow, make a note of the full name of the blog and then hit their FOLLOW button.

Now go into your own dashboard, look at the menu on the left and select LAYOUT

Within your layout, you will see a box called MY BLOG LIST (Blog list Gadget). Press the EDIT button in that box. This will take you to the CONFIGURE BLOG LIST page.

Scroll right down to the bottom and select ADD A NEW ITEM

It will ask you for the name of the blog that you want to add. Enter that, after the first few letters, it will probably find the rest of the blog title for you.

Immediately underneath, it offers you the blog address followed by the words BLOGSPOT.COM

Immediately after ‘.com’ add this text.   /feeds/posts/default

Include all three forward slashes.

Now press CONTINUE then press SAVE

You are done and should now see any new posts in the Blogger Blog List, (which remember is a gadget).

(Edit - if anyone wants to copy this post and repost it on their own blog, please feel free, getting this info to the widest audience possible is probably the best thing that we can do in 2025 for Blogger) 

If any of this information is wrong, misplaced or misguided, please drop me a note over on my COMMANDERS page, using the contact button at the bottom of the menu on the left.

LINK

https://commanders.simdif.com/