The Last of the Chromatic Naval Builds...

Having been considering, over several weeks, building an armoured cruiser for Ruberia, and finding myself at something of a loose end, I finally built one. It is modelled upon HMS Warrior. Here it is...

I have to admit to a considerable dissatisfaction with the gun turrets. Intended as an approximation of the bell-shape (in plan), I tried a trapezoidal shape. Unfortunately, my cutting device is getting blunt, and my spare blades have gone walkabout. So the gun turrets are pretty rough.

But... unless eventually the gun turrets give me the pip, as they are they will remain.

The final pic is the tray containing the fleets of Ruberia and Azuria, and the Izumrud-Zeleniya capital ships. Oh, yes, the riverine gunboat - HMS Shoofly, different scale - is also there.

It is tempting to try out a larger scale fleet action between Ruberia and the combined fleets of Turcowaz and Azuria. The forces ...

Ruberia: 

• 6 battleships
• 1 armoured cruiser 
• 1 protected cruiser
• 6 destroyer/ torpedo boats

Azuria/Turcowaz

• 7 battleships
• 1 protected cruiser
• 8 destroyer/ torpedo boats

The slight numerical imbalance would probably be redressed by the more powerful units of the Ruberian 2nd Battle Squadron. This, of course, is purely conjectural. One never knows: perhaps some such battle will happen during the Little Great War... 

Heads up -

Two projects in one: Jono's World.

 As it seems likely that in not distant enough future an uncomfortable level of chaos is likely to descend upon chez nous, traffic on this blog will probably be a whole deal thinner for the next several weeks or months. My 'Little Great War' will be put on hold (there's three small command stands to add to the Azurian Army anyhow). I had planned a naval clash between the fleets of Azuria and Hellenia (why DIDN'T I call it Hellas?!), but that may have to wait a bit. It was partly a play test, but also an early encounter at the outset of the Little Great War.

In the meantime, I took some pics to test out my new mobile phone...



Two projects are depicted in the above pic. The land forces in 1:300 (6mm) scale are formations of the Ra'esharn, Sa'abia and Kiivar armies. Two infantry and two armoured Divisions for Ra'esharn; two and one for Sa'abia, and a Mechanised Division for Kiivar. These will be companion land forces for the navies that featured in the 'Battle of the Laroc Sea'.

The aircraft are Trumpeter inter-war or early WW2 types that have been drafted into the other Jono's World naval project - the one featuring toy battleships made, I think, in Hong Kong.

Turcowaz Regular Cavalry

Just these last few days I finally put together a regular cavalry formation for Turcowaz. It becoming clear that I'll never get hold of any Turkish cavalry from the 1877 war with Russia, I opted for WW1 types instead. As the HaT box comprised 12 horses and 15 riders, I scrounged from among other bits and pieces, the extra horses. It turned out, two of the boxed horses were munted. One of them required a head, the other was irretrievably mangled. 

The extra figures became a 12-figure formation, with a single figure Brigade command stand, and a two-figure Division command. That will do for the Turcowaz cavalry.

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More Chromatic Wars Armies...

 

Here are the other belligerents in the Great Little War (Little Great War) about to break out.

The Turcowaz (TURQUOISE) - less its cavalry

Turcowaz: 3 small Divisions of regulars; 3 larger 
Divsions of bashi-bazouk, backed by artillery and machine guns.

Army of Izumrud-Zelenia: 4 infantry Divisions, 
and 2 Divisions of light cavalry. Somehow the weak 
Turcowaz cavalry brigade has snuck into this picture.

Izumrud-Zeleniya.

The Turcowaz is substantially the larger army, but will have a column of Ruberian troops to contend with at quite the other end of the Settee Empire. That could present a problem...