League Of Augsburg - Fighting Talk

Gents

Will be test painting my first sample 28s over the next few weeks.

Have been thinking about my French units as to go for 24 or 36 and how best to base them for rte. as will either need to have 4 or 6 grenadiers and volts. Have just got my copy of the rules and not yet read them so apologies if answer is obvious.

Cheers

Phil

Gents

Will have a go at re phrasing the question.

Will be basing my French in groups of 4, will it make any game difference to have 2 Gren and 2 fusiliers on the base.

Cheers

Phil

Phil69 wrote:Gents

Will have a go at re phrasing the question.

Will be basing my French in groups of 4, will it make any game difference to have 2 Gren and 2 fusiliers on the base.

Cheers

Phil

Phil,

I had the honor and priviledge to be part of the DERBY Napoleonic Weekender and had french troops under my command. Sofar as I noticed it there has been only Grenadiers in the units and the Voltigeurs were only on the table when used as skirmishers who were called out. Therefore I would say that you can use a 4 - 6 figure base or whatever you like because the figures are not used as companies but as 4 figure Combat groups. If a combat group matches with a company strenght then this is only by accident.
Take my Saxons as a sample: They are formed as a 36 Figure Unit representing a 40 figure Battalion of 800 men and are based as 6 x 6. When formed in a battle formation they are 4 ranks deep. That matches with the original formation.

Hope that helps

Günter

Thanks for that Gunther much appreciated.

Cheers

Phil

Hi

Further to this in an average British reg of 30 figures how many flank companies do people use?

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Phil

I put 4 light and 4 grenadier in every battalion. Apparently the light and grenadier companies were kept more up to strength than the centre companies.

Bill.

Thanks for that Bill. Am I right in thinking Brit regs have two standard bearers one for the union flag the other for the regt standard?

Cheers

Phil

Yes, they had 2 colours, the Kings colour and the regimental colour.
The Kings colour is the union flag and should always be on the right hand side of the unit if looking from behind the unit.

Bill

Thanks Bill much appreciated.

Phil

BP wrote:Yes, they had 2 colours, the Kings colour and the regimental colour.
The Kings colour is the union flag and should always be on the right hand side of the unit if looking from behind the unit.

Bill

Unless they were Foot Guards, in which case the King's Colour (on the right) was crimson and the Regimental Colour was the Union Flag (on the left), and it still is today.

Rod

Evening Gents

Thought i'd post some wip photos of my first two Napleonics and would be grateful for any feedback. Have just put in the order with front rank for my first British Bn and really looking forward to painting them.

Any feedback would be welcome good bad or indifferent as looking to learn how to paint a good standard of 28 mm figures.

Cheers

Phil

My first finished British Infantry man (foundry) and just recevied the first Bn through the post so good to go.

Any feedback would be welcome.

Cheers

Phil

I think you've done a good job. Apply the same care to the bases that you do to the figures and you'll have a nice looking battalion.

Do you highlight? That would be my only suggestion to improve. The backpack, greatcoat and trousers would pop with a highlight, though it may be the camera. I like the red you've got for your coat. The lace is also a nice touch.

On your WIP Frenchman, if you can paint the piping on his lapels, collar, cuffs and turnbacks, he'll really pop. I don't know if your blue was the final blue, but if so, it was a bit dark.

Otherwise, practice and work, hard, on the bases. A good base makes even a poorly painted miniature shine. A bad base makes the best miniatures look worse.

Can't wait to see the rest!

Rob

Thanks for the feedback and the words of encouragement. Think it may well be the camera as have highlighted backpack etc.

The Frenchie is still wip but will have some finished photos soon.

Thanks again.

Phil

My first completed French man (aside form doing his baynet which missed before taking the photo).

Any feedback would be welcome

Cheers

Phil