I
have reworked the basing, given this regiment new flags and painted
up the two grenadier companies. So 6 regiments (12 battalions) are
finished.
I
am currently painting IR22 Roth, the only Austrian regiment with
two-colour facings.
Saturday, 31 August 2019
Thursday, 29 August 2019
Monday, 26 August 2019
40mm SYW IR31 Hungarian Regiment Haller
I
am reworking these regiments and adding two grenadier companies which
will be converged (in three pairs of two) to make grenadier
battalions.
The
other thing that I have done is to enable the use of the Austrian
army in both the WAS and SYW. In the former the infantry formed in 4
ranks so I want to show a distinction. For the SYW (three ranks) the
five bases of 4 are simply placed side-by-side (bottom 2 pictures).
For the WAS (4 ranks) one base (which is split into two) is placed
behind the end bases – shown in top 3 pictures. This reduces the
frontage and shows an increase in depth for the extra rank. Six
hundred men in 4 ranks will have a frontage of about 150 men whereas
600 men in 3 ranks has a frontage of about 200. After Kolin the
Austrians were in 3 ranks.
I
only have two regiments of Hungarians in my army so to be able to
field a converged battalion of grenadiers I will need to add two
companies of grenadiers from another regiment not present in my army.
The Austrian method of converging grenadiers was quite different from
the Prussian method. The Prussians system was grenadiers from two
regiments (so 4 companies) in a permanent grouping that would only
change if numbers fell too low through desertion or casualties. The
Austrians, on the other hand, only tended to converge on the
battlefield, or just prior to it, to create an elite for a short
period of combat. Thereafter they returned to their parent battalions
to wait the next emergency or battle. Sometimes they were not
converged at all, for example at the battles of Lobositz and Prague.
When they are not specified in an OOB then you can assume that
grenadiers remained with their parent regiments. Mollwitz is another
example – no grenadiers are mentioned so it is reasonable to assume
they were within the battalions.
Thursday, 22 August 2019
28mm SYW French: IR 24.1 La Reine and IR84 La Marche
La Reine, 1st
battalion (the second served in America) at the front and the
single-battalion regiment La Marche at the back. Foundry figures
Tuesday, 13 August 2019
SYW Hessian Landgrenadierregiment/AWI Regiment Rall
In
1760, when the new Landgrave Friedrich II reorganised his army, the
three former militia regiments were reorganised into three "Garrison
Battalions" of 4 companies each, and one standing battalion of
"Garrison Grenadiers" of 4 companies. This is the latter
and by the AWI this is Grenadier Regiment Rall of Trenton fame.
You
can see from the attached schematic that the uniform is basically the
same although some coat lace has been added and the mitre's back
colours has changed. The green flag has been somewhat embellished as
per the 'Prussification' of the army. Further worthy of note is the
fact that while the mitre rear of other ranks was piped white, this
piping is gold for NCOs.
This
one-battalion regiment fought at the Battle of Warburg.
In my
Hessian army the regiments are normally of 2 battalions each of 500
men (5 bases per battalion) whereas I have made this stronger with 7
bases or 700 men. Figures are mostly Black Hussar with command from
Foundry.
28mm SYW: Hanoverian mixed battery
One captured French 8pdr
(gun from Minden) with two 24pdrs (Front Rank) – all with
Hanoverian crew from Siege Work Studio.
Wednesday, 7 August 2019
28mm SYW: Hessian battery
This battery has 12pdr
Prussian Brummers (guns from the Minden/Crann Tara ranges).
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