BFAS: Cossack Odds and Ends

Some random odds and ends for my BFAS Cossacks...a few command stands, a priest, some more scouts, and three more stands of mounted cossacks. With the exception of 3 more wagons awaiting missing parts, this will finish off my Cossacks.

By Fire and Sword: Cossack Moloitsy

Finished up a pile of Cossack Moloitsy. They are pretty much the crappy Cossack infantry, but the army will never turn down some guys with guns, and a couple banners are required choices in BFAS anyway. Added to the 8 stands I have done, this gives me 24 stands of them.

By Fire and Sword: Dismounted Mounted Cossacks

Yeah, confusing enough? So these are the dismounted version of the unit "Mounted Cossacks". They basically function like dragoons that can also fight in close combat. I actually think they are the strongest unit option in the Cossack army.

BFAS: Registered Cossacks

Painted up some more Registered Cossacks for my BFAS Cossack skirmish list. Just need to work on some dismounts for the "Mounted Cossacks" and some Wagons and I'll have the list maxed out with all the options.

By Fire and Sword: Cossack Skirmish Set

Had two days off before GenCon, so in addition to banging out that DZC Thunderstorm Custom, I also knocked out the BFAS Cossack Skirmish Set, and a little something else....

Batrep: FoW WW1 Russians vs Germans

Chris and I played a game of FoW WW1 today, using his FoW1918 rules. He played his 1914 Germans vs my newly (almost complete) 1914 Cossacks.

We played encounter on the following board:

FoW WW1: Dismounted Russian Cossacks

Started my dismounted Cossacks. Got two squads done, sans the command stands.

FoW WW1: Cossack HMGs

More WW1 Cossacks. HMG platoon - Battlefront Winter Soviet models with Peter Pig headswaps.

FoW: Cossack Artillery (AKA 15mm Headswaps wheee)

Some WW1 Cossack artillery. The figures are Battlefront WW2 Soviet artillery crew bodies, with Peter Pig cossack headswaps and Peter Pig guns. In fact, these are the only semi-Battlefront figures in my army.

FoW1918: Russian Cossacks

Some WW1 Russian cossacks. Models are Peter Pig. They really are amazing models. My painting doesn't do them justice. I'll probably use these to replace my Battlefront WW2 cossacks as well.

DZC and FoW WIP

(I'm amused that the title of this post contains only 3-letter words, and 75% acronyms)

I've gotten quite a bit painted over the past couple days, although nothings technically "done", as I'm waiting on static grass, decals, and dullcote to arrive. In fact, the decals, from Fighting Piranha, will probably take several months - as awesome as they are, they are slow.

By Fire and Sword: Elite Cossacks

Painted up a squad of BFAS Elite Cossacks. They're just standard cossack figures with shields to let them stand out. This gives me almost 30 stands of cossack style cavalry to play with for BFAS, and lets me field some smaller end division level forces as well.