"Even more Irish Catholic Confederacy command" Topic

I wouldn't let it lie… and raided my spares box for some more command figures*

Pics, biographies etc can be found link

And a taster

* in reality, a task avoidance strategy – I can't face painting more Austrian Napoleonic infantry

As always, nice figure painting and basing combined with great background information.

@kentucky pd:

This book has a chapter on Ireland – good background on the Irish Confederacy; also explains a lot about the kooky wars and politicking of the 17thC:

Amazon – Global Crisis Climate Catastrophe 17th C – Geoffrey PARKER 2013

Thanks for the kind words S'nasty. I'm afraid I'm running out of stuff to paint.

Stoppage, I'm assuming that you mean me when you @Kentucky PD. I do use the initials KYPD, as in Keep Your Powder Dry, certainly not a reference to a police force in the former colonies 😉

Thanks for the book recommendation, but I have to say that I think Parker's hypothesis is tenuous to say the least.

Until I realized what board this is, I was going to say, that Confederate officer looks like an ECW figure and I didn't know there was an entire Confederate Brigade of Irish Catholic soldiers.

Old Contemptible, blimey the Irish are complicated during the Wars of the 3 Kingdoms.
There's an Irish Brigade that fought in Scotland, then numerous armies that fought in Ireland (often against one another).

Excellent brushwork!

Old Contemptible, blimey the Irish are complicated during the Wars of the 3 Kingdoms.

Fighting on both sides is so 16th Century – we Irish have perfected the concept of fighting on both sides AND having a third side all to ourselves.