Pontoon Bridge and Turtle Fleet 40 Points 12th Annual Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge (6)

A smallish entry this week from the American Civil War.

The Vlogsphere theme is Bureaucracy that works nicely for the American Civil Pontoon Bridge. The Battle of Fredericksburg featured these. I have no ambitions of doing anything so large but I wanted to make one, I used some of Arofan's 3D printed boats and some coffee sticks.

The Bureaucracy comes in because these where part of the Engineering train of the Army of the Potomac and wasn't in the direct chain of command. Burnside gave them orders but it took days for the orders to reach the troops and they arrived late. The result was Lee had was able to oppose the crossing resulting in a Union disaster.

Points wise its a very small terrain piece so maybe 1 point flat terrain is confusing so up my total if appropriate. I'll also get 20 points for Vlogsphere.

Here are two Union "city class" gun boats. These where the first Iron clads commissioned by the Union. They were nick named Pook's Turtles so called for one of the designers and there look.

These ships took part in all the western river battles of the Civil War. Bombarding forts, fighting Confederate ships and blockading Mississippi the river. Their most lopsided victory was the Battle of Memphis where 4 of them helped defeat a fleet of 8 confederate gunboats and/or rams.

These are two 15mm vehicle so anther 16 points Combining that with the points for the USS Tylor and the pontoon bridge that's 25 points of Union "aquatic transport" for another Squirrel points.

17 points for the miniatures and another 20 points for the planet.

Nice homemade pontoon bridge Adam, could have uses both on land and sea. And loving these cumbersome looking Turtles. Great work all around. I've rounded you up to 40 points for the scratch build and so your score is less confusing.