1870- Another Revenant!

 

I was going to get rid of these little fellows.  They were saved by Battle Command.  As you can see they really are 15mm. Very much from the time before this.  

I have two smallish armies worth.  Pretty much all painted.  The job was to rebase and reflag them.  I have six or so bags unpainted.  Eight or 4 to a bag.  

Easy enough, except I ran out of bases.  Pendraken obliged.  I see they are selling wire spears at a reasonable price.  Ditto Colonel Bill's.

The basing system is (nearly) that suggested by Brent Oman author of Battle Command.  It suited the amount of figures I had.  The key line infantry ones no longer are available.  Luckily, I have enough for a decent sized game.

I'm liking the look of it so far.  The cavalry look dashing but doomed. We will see them shortly. The infantry like the coming thing.  Longer range rifles and looser formations.  They still carry flags which is nice.

I cannot remember when I bought the figures, certainly at least 15 years ago.  They are from QRF but, originate much older with Fei Korps 15.  I'm guessing mid 80s. If you know shout out.

I've surprised myself with this one.  I couldn't resist the idea of doing a few Battle Command Franco-Prussian War games.

I'll show the full Armies for both sides here shortly and a game or two too.

A blast from the past then but not without charm or utility.  I'm glad I kept them.

As you can see the formatting on this post has gone awry, Blogger is a mysterious thing. 

SYW Prussians- Artillery and Generals

 

 

Above we see King Frederick and the Duke of Bevern. Von Zieten stands by. Eureka figures.

The last battery. I have three in all. All from Old Glory 15mm.

Sundry Brigadiers from Blue Moon.

 

More Blue Moon Brigadiers.

 

A stern fellow from Eureka. Maybe Keith. What an interesting career he had. That's it, the Prussians are done and game ready.

Now to see what needs doing with the Austrians.  We should be seeing Duffy's second volume on the Austrian Army soon.  I'm looking forward to reading it and fair play to Helion for the reprint.

SYW Prussian Grenadiers

 

After a bit of hesitation I decided to repaint my Prussian Grenadiers.  Not really a big job.  Caps, cuffs, and linings.  Now my grenadiers match their parent Musketeer regiments.  They don’t represent any known combined grenadier battalion that I’m aware of.  I’ll live with that.  Above you see both battalions.  I think they look the part.

So, who is there?  Let’s take a closer look.

 Anhalt- Dessau first.

 Next, Braunschweig.  Below, a combined battalion.

Von Kanitz.

 

Braunschweig-Bevern.

 

I mixed in a few Eureka figures to bring the numbers up.  The second combined battalion below.

Another job done.  Now for the Brigadiers and Generals and the last battery of artillery.  Then, amazingly, my SYW Pussian Army will be done.

SYW Prussian Dragoons in 15/18mm

 

Yes, a quick loop back to the SYW.  

I have finished my Prussian Dragoons.  Above, you can see the whole brigade. The  dragoons were the missing cavalry component in my Prussian Army.  Another significant milestone passed. 

All of the figures are from from Blue Moon.  Oddly, when I first got these figures I didn't like them.  Now I do.  Couldn't tell you why.  Tastes change? 

 

Let's have a closer look at von Normann’s Dragoons.

In the same format. 

Count zu Waldburg’s Dragoons.

 

Finally-

 

The von Blanckensee Dragoons.

Another shot of the brigade.

All three flags are from Kronoskaf. 

I need to paint one last Prussian gun and crew, a couple of command figures and to decide as to whether my grenadiers are up to snuff or not.  Then that is the Prussian Army is complete.

That will probably warrant a blog parade.

We will see the Austrian dragoons next.

In other news I’m awaiting delivery of Brent Oman’s Battle Command rules.  "Bat Com" to the cognoscenti.  It looks very promising.  I'm tracking mine as it travels from the USA.