Retreat From Moscow
Unquiet Dead
I’ve no idea whether the Silver Bayonet will feature zombies, but I couldn’t resist the idea of kitbashing a few together. These were made using a couple of sprues of Perry French Napoleonic infantry mixed with arms and heads from plastic WW2 German zombies by Studio Miniatures, and the odd bit of green stuff and a spare Viking axe.
Few little mistakes with the build, mismatching the bodies and backpacks with the French, so a couple of models are sporting dual water canteens and/or bayonets. Lesson learnt to pay more attention when building multipart plastics.
However, I’m pretty happy with the end result. Regardless of whether there’s any zombies within the rules, these might make suitable proxies for something else, or I’ll pencil up some suitable stats.
Since the Grand Armee suffered a huge rate of attrition on the way to Moscow thanks to desertion, hunger, illness and disease, not to mention the odd battle, it seemed suitable for the dead to be in summer uniform rather than winter greatcoats. By the time Napoleon finally decided his position in Moscow was untenable, the Russians had moved to block his escape, and forced the French to retreat back along his line of previous advance. The land had already been stripped of supplies during the advance, making the retreat even more dismal. I imagine these zombies are some of those that perished on the advance, stumbling into the path of the stragglers to add to the horror of the retreat.
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