6mm American War of Independence armies

Some years ago a couple friends and I talked about doing the Seven Years war. I decided to the English and immediately ordered some figures from Baccus. They duly arrived and were subsequently put on the shelves and the project forgotten again.

A couple of years later I wanted to do some 2-armies projects for various periods that I could solo game. At this time I had become quite interested in the American War of Independence and so I decided to get an American army to face the English. Now, I quickly found that the English army looks slightly different between the 2 wars, but in 6mm I believe it's acceptable to ignore. 

I didn't want to paint the Americans so for the first time I decided to try and buy a painted army from Ebay. The result and price was okay, but unfortunately history repeated itself and once the painted Americans arrived, they were put on the shelves and the project abandoned. 

This year I wanted to finish the project, so I found someone on Facebook to paint the English, as I knew I wouldn't get them painted anytime soon myself. And this time they did not end up on the shelves. I got them based and bought flags and finally finished both armies.

The American army was bought as an army pack. I basically based them using the Black Powder unit types from the expansion book 'Rebellion!'. I have used various forms of bases and number of figures on the bases, so that I could do different types of units. The flags are also from Baccus, and I have used them randomly, so no particularly real-life formations.

For the English army I bought a bunch of line infantry, and some grenadiers, skirmish infantry, horse and artillery. As with the Americans I tried to base them, so I could field various forms of formations and unit types. And again the flags are added randomly, so not trying to do any specific real-life formations.

I am very pleased with armies and look forward to try them on the field. I will probably start out light with some smaller games with the One-Hour Wargames rules from Neil Thomas, and then try the full collection with Black Powder later on.