A New Napoleonic Army - The Prussians

 

With a decent sized Russian army you can always give the French and their allies a good run for their money, but for 1813-14 (my favourite campaigns), you really need a healthy Prussian contingent to help with the heavy lifting. Once again I have gone for Foundry figures for the infantry and again I really like the variety and quality of these admittedly ageing sculpts. So far I have managed 5 units of line infantry (1 fusilier and 4 musketeer), plus a command base, with the intention of doing another fusilier and probably 1 or maybe 2 grenadiers. In the last Foundry Christmas offer, I stocked up on reserve infantry (6 units) and landwehr (6 units), for a grand total of 19. This should be enough!

                                       First up is the 2nd Silesian Regiment

                                             The 4th East Prussian Regiment

                                                    

                                                      The 1st Silesian Regiment

                                                            Silesian Fusiliers

                                    And finally the 2nd Pomeranian Regiment

As you can see, the units have a definite campaign feel, with a sprinkling of different colours on trousers,rolled greatcoats and shako covers, plus the odd forage cap. As all I have are regulars at the moment, they will do for the early spring campaign of Lutzen and Bautzen. If I want to go beyond that, I will need to get cracking on the reservists and Landwehr. I also have a couple of boxes of Perry plastic Prussian dragoons, a regiment of metal hussars and half a dozen artillery batteries to make a start on so slowly slowly.

Napoleonic French Cuirassiers

With a light cavalry division under my belt, I thought I had better add some heavies to counter the dragoons and cuirassiers I already have in my Russian army. As with the lights I decided to opt for Perry plastics again, getting enough to make 6 regiments (5 Cuirassier and 1 Carabinier). Here are the first 3 to take the field. As usual lovely figures from the Perrys.

The carabiniers are part done, but the Seven Years War project and more AWI keep getting in the way. Also busy working on more drop on terrain - trees and ACW fencing; just as well I am retired now!!