The beauty of a written plan is you can tear it up and then reflect later on whether things got better or worse as a result!
So here is plan A for 2021.
Whats in a Name
My wargames plan A for 2020 was about Normans in the South (NitS) and that plan “went south” which is in the negative. At least Plan B gave me plenty of wargames pleasure.
For 2021 I am in the nineteenth century and specifically it is the wars of Italian Unification which have me dazzled.
Abbreviations give me WoIU. Not very catchy. Or I could tweak it to get WotIU – Watteu.
hmmmmmm.
OK we will run with that WotIU.
WotIU in my plan runs from Napoleon to Nation State as Lucy Riall says on the cover of her book entitled “Risorgimento”. So I could go with “Risorgimento”. That feels a bit constricting though.
And low and behold Neil Thomas gives you a book – Wargaming Nineteenth Century Europe 1815-1878.
Excellent. Too Excellent as Neil Thomas offers you a myriad of armies to choose from. And it is anything but uniform in this period.
Skakos, coatees, knee gaiters, stovepipes, kittels, greatcoats, kepis, short gaiters, spikey helmets, zoaves, bersaglieri……….and red shirts.
So where do I begin?
Two armies around 1855 – looking a bit like
Austrian – kittels, trousers and small tapered shakos
Piedmont – kepi, trousers and frock coats or tunics
It seems the cavalry still resembled napoleonic styles but with trousers.
So I have made a start with some ACW Union Infantry being repurposed as Piedmontese Line Infantry.
The aim will be to get some forces on the table.
So posts might be thin on the ground if I am painting well……..
The Wargaming Erratic 