Reviews:
15mm "1815 British Allied" Range

from Lancashire Games

by David Barnes

I have not seen "Lancashire Games" figures before. [They do Early Gennans, Samurai, Renaissance) Persians, Romans, Celts, Medieval, 7YW, Revolutionary (c. 1790), ACW, Colonial & 25mm Fantasy. Coming soon WWII 20mm Japs, Brits and Indians. (cor)] Personally I don't know why any other manufacturer bothers to do a Napoleonic range and I don't nowadays go near the 1815 campaign tho' in "the dark ages" I did Napoleon's Prussian campaign and I still have fun with 25mm Peninsular battles because I like the Portuguese and Spanish.

Having bored you with all that I'll get on to the review proper:

General remarks. These are sturdy, well proportioned and modelled little figures. I have 14 of the 29 in the list to write about. There are no numbers on the bases so it may be that I'll write in glowing terms about a Brunswicker (can't see any in the 14 actually) and it'll turn out to be Nassau. The list gives Dutch Belgians, Dutch / Belgians, Nassau and Brunswick Horse, Foot and Guns - and command figures - which is great because some manufacturers leave you with some nice infantry, or whatever, without any command figs for yonks. To be precise about size (pushes glasses to top of head and gets out ruler) the figures are more like 20mm to top of shako - plumes can give you 25mm from sole of feet.

DBN1. Dutch Line Infantry. Nicely detailed figure in a good pose.

DBN2. Dutch Flanker / Jager. Another good figure.

DBN4. Belgian Line lnfantry. cf p. 153 L Uniforme et Les Armes des Soldats du Premier Empire Vol. 2 and p.47 Le Costume et Les Armes des Soldats de tous les temps Vol. 2. Both Casterman - authors L&F Funken.

DBN5. Belgian Flank / Jager. Ditto. Well differentiated

DBN6. Belgian Infantry command. An officer waving his sword, a standard bearer, and a drummer playing. Neat little figures. And most of their kit was British anyway. Could be painted up as such.

DBN9. Nassau Fusilier. Peaks fore and aft on these Nassau figures - Chasseurs a pied. Belge also had them (vide Funken again).

DBN10. Nassau Grenadier. Good detail and cleanly cast.

DBN12. Nassau command. Officer with sword point down, drummer, and standard bearer.

DBN 13. Dutch / Belgian Hussar. Reaching over his horse's head with his sabre long carbine at his right hip butt uppermost. Well animated rider and horse cast together. Can be used for a French hussar.

Drawing not to scale.


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