Start of a New Napoleonic Lasalle Army: Peninsula British

Hey Folks,

Completely off track from doing a Prussian Army I have acquired a start to a Peninsula British army!

Now as Pooch is using the lovely Perry Models British models as a Waterloo force he had a heap of Perry Peninsula Heads as well as a pile of spare Victrix models I snapped them up :)

Well I am always one to do my wargaming on the cheap so I don't mind that the Victrix models are not as good as the Perry's (well, not THAT much) and to be honest the Perry heads fix the biggest sin of the the Victrix models, they are butt ugly!

So I am doing a Light Division, as its super cool, it has;


1 Rifle (+)
1 Elite Infantry (+)
1 Infantry
2 Caçadore
1 RHA BTY
2 Infantry 


(The + symbol means that its a large 6 base unit instead of the usual 4 bases)

It also has;

If Jamie can have Russell Crowe to leas his Impetus Romans I can have Sean Bean for my 95th Rifles!

Structure looked something like this;

Structure during the Peninsular War

• Commanding Generals: Robert Craufurd, William Erskine, Charles Alten
• 1st Brigade
  • 1/43rd (Monmouthshire Light Infantry) Regiment - This would be the Core Infantry Unit
  • 1/95th Rifles -This Unit combined with the 3/95th could be the Core Large Rifles Unit
  • 3/95th Rifles (HQ & 5 companies)
  • 3rd Portuguese Caçadores  This would be a Core Cacadore Unit (duh) 
• 2nd Brigade
  • 1/52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry) - This is the Core Large Elite Infantry Unit (as these guys kicked ass, though not sure on size)
  • 2/95th Rifles
  • 1/17th Portuguese Line
  • 2/17th Portuguese Line
  • 1st Portuguese Caçadores.^{[18] This would be a Core Cacadore Unit}
• Divisional Troops
• 1 troop, Royal Horse Artillery The Core RHA Battery 
• Part of the 14th Light Dragoons
• Part of the 16th Light Dragoons

I'm still not sure on what to run as the support choice. Brunswicks (though maybe run them as Kings German Legion) would be the obvious choice but Allied Portuguese (crappy) or Reserve Light Cavalry (also crappy) would be the historical choice...

Looking forward to getting some paint on some models tomorrow.

Cheers
Jason