'Flight' from SidneyR: Troops in Flight, 1688

"When an entire Victory is obtain’d, he who hath lost the day 
should not lose his Courage too, but ought to 
gather up his Shipwreck, rally his dispers’d and broken troops,
 get new recruits, dissemble his losses, 
encourage his party and draw to a head again; 
these are things practis’d by all intelligent Generals." 

Pallas Armata, Chapter XXII, 1683

I love the idea of replacing formed wargames units of troops which are in rout on the tabletop with bases of shattered troops in flight.  The first themed round of the Challenge gave me the chance to create such a "flight", depicting two groups of troops, each of which could replace a routed unit on my late seventeenth century tabletop.

I got the idea from a Barry Hilton article in War-games Illustrated in the 1990s, and all the credit for the idea is therefore Barry's not mine.  I set about creating the bases before the Challenge started, ordering the MDF bases from Warbases, and converting the figures to provide two unique scenes.

The French hussar attacking the German gunner is converted from an ECW dragoon, with a Polish dragoon head, and a spare pistol arm, with a greenstuff coat.  Yes, it was that kind of a project...!  The other figures are from 1st Corps, Wargames Foundry and Perry Miniatures.

I made another four such bases, and hopefully they'll appear later in the Challenge.