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Monday, July 30, 2018

A Swedish Army for the Great Northern War- Infantry Part 1



I opted to use Roundway and Dixon15mm for this project.  As you can see they match nicely.   Roundway come with cast on flags which I removed in no time at all with a pair of  snips. 

I'm aiming for 8 units of foot in all. They are based for Beneath the Lily Banners, six figures to a stand, 3 stands per unit.  When I want to use them for Piquet I'll simply add a battalion gun to bring the unit up to the requisite four. Or, I could just field them below strength, hard campaigning and all that.

Here are my first six starting with the Lifgad til Fot (Life Guard of Foot).   All of this first unit are Dixon GNW 15mm figures all baring the Roundway officer and NCO.



Lifgad til Fot in karpus from Dixon above and in hat from Roundway below.  A Battalion Gun is in support.
 


 These boys are going to be rated as Veteran Elite or Guards.


A mix of Roundway and Dixon above for the Vasterbotton Regiment.


The Narke Varmland Regiment above all from Roundway.



The Dal Regiment above all from Roundway.  Lastly, the Vastermanland Regiment with a mixture of Dixon and Roundway.




 The aim is to have 3 brigades of foot with supporting battalion guns. Two regiments to go.

The flags used for these regiments are either from Fabrizio Davi you can find them at his blog
  http://torgauproject.blogspot.com/2011/09/swedish-flags-gnw.html      or from Wayne Turner who blogs at  http://www.khanage.net.nz/wargaming/great-northern-war/gnw-standards/

My thanks to both of these gentlemen for making their splendid flags freely available..


More soon.



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