New releases for October at Derby: 5 armies for the War of the Spanish Succession, Austrian, Bavarian, British, Dutch and French. In addition to this there are also 2 existing ranges of Prussian and Danish armies for the period. See the website for full lists under "Reiver Castings 28mm". Sorry no p...

Yes, there are plans for additions to the field fortifications and a new seige trench system. Once the new figures have been released at Derby I can concentrate on them. As for houses I'm not sure yet. Games of War do the resin casting of our fortifications and they have been doing some nice 'flat p...

Hi Giorgio,
Dan tracked down the flag to Furstemberg which later became Greder Allamand (both in French service) and was carried in 1703/4.

I hope that helps.
Rob

Hi Giorgio
One of the flags refers to a French-German regiment, but together they aren't any use because the other one is Bavarian.

They've been withdrawn now.
Rob

Nigel,
Flipping Fantastic!

Lovely paint job and you've made them come alive. James III would be proud of you!

Is it so obvious I'm a Jacobite?

Rob

Jim,
They are excellent and really helpful.

Rob

Dear all, I've been fortunate enough to have the guiding hand of Dan Schorr on this subject and as a result Reiver Castings will be withdrawing Massei from the Bavarian flag lists as it isn't a Bavarian regiment. Sorry Giorgio. Mercy are the same regiment as Haxthausen. I'm glad we were able to clea...

Dan, I see what you're saying but I trusted the guy who did the Bavarian flags for us and when I questioned him about it he did give me a valid explanation at the time however he can't find the source for it now to pass on. If I thought for one second it was all rubbish I wouldn't have allowed the f...

It's good to have someone who reads German.

If this means there are actually 3 different regiments then it brings us back to the original question of flags and uniforms. The flags for Massei and Maffei are different. Any thoughts?

The figures only came out at the weekend but they are available. If you e-mail the Under the Bed guys you can get one.

I'll see about getting them on the website as soon as possible.

Hi Giorgio, I'm still waiting for the reference however I do believe from memory the name Massei is another form of writing Mercy. As with most names, place names, etc when they are often written in one language the translation to another is written down as the word is pronounced. I hope this makes ...

A customer in Scotland asked us for flags for the Bavarian army so when I first had Massei presented to me by our flag designer I was a little sceptical myself but he produced a reference and reason for it. He's going to e-mail me with the details which I'll post later. I think it may be a derivatio...

The only stuff I'm seen him do is on the History of the British Army. I'll keep an eye open for anything else and let you know.

Excellent! That's a really nice figure and full of detail. What are you going to do next? Dan, You're right about the archive. Something similar to what you have done with the Great Northern War and Scanian War would be an advantage. If everyone made the effort to add what they know it would soon bu...

I checked through some of my books which have references to the 1665-1680 period. A small list but I probably have more when I get the chance to delve deeper into my library. John Childs- Warfare in the Seventeenth Century John Childs- The Army of Charles II Clifford Walton- A History of the British...