Burgoyne's Saratoga Campaign German Troops err...all of them
Hello, I thought it might be ENCOURAGING for all to know that sometimes projects actually get finished ! The varnish finally dried on the skirmishers of the Riedesel and Prinz Frederick Regiments on Thursday night so I felt a parade was in order; it was going to be Burgoyne’s Left Wing, but the Prinz Ludwig Dragoons got wind of it and turned up too; so...
and
This shot makes them look like 6mmfigs, but is end-to-end on a 6’7” table... I don’t expect to field them all at the same time in action - I don’t suffer quite
that level of megalomania :D .
Artillery 4x6lb 12figs, von Barner’s Light Infantry (combined Musketeers and Jaegers) 54figs, Prinz Ludwig Dragoons (foot) 55figs {enough to refight the Bennington Redoubt at 1:5}.
Major General Frederick von Riedesel - who appears to have been slimming, staff and dog 7figs
Artillery 2x3lb, 2x6lb 14figs, Breyman’s Grenadier Battalion (ex-Riedesel, Prinz Frederick, Rhetz and Specht Regiments) 48figs, Hesse Hanau Jaegers 21figs.
1st Brigade: Regiment von Rhetz 75figs, Regiment von Riedesel 74figs, Regiment von Specht 77figs.
2nd Brigade: Regiment Prinz Frederick 75figs, Hesse Hanau Erbprinz Regiment (including grenadiers) 83figs, and Division General/ADC (at far left) 4figs
Total 601figs (including the dog) which is a figure ratio about 1:6point8... :shock: this is low even by BG! standards; but I should point out that the regiments
will generally be called into action each as two separate wings, that the regimental officers are there purely to hold the marker-dice and that this makes
them far less cumbersome, more in the region of 32figs and by simply not counting the figures on the command/colours bases this would be 2x24fig
units... That doesn’t sound quite so big does it?
However, having them all on the table at the same time is somewhat tempting... :wink:
Here is a close-up of the Hesse Hanau Ebprinz Rgt; just for the pink flags... they must be pretty tough to take them on the field with them!!!
GJ
Hello, I thought it might be ENCOURAGING for all to know that sometimes projects actually get finished ! The varnish finally dried on the skirmishers of the Riedesel and Prinz Frederick Regiments on Thursday night so I felt a parade was in order; it was going to be Burgoyne’s Left Wing, but the Prinz Ludwig Dragoons got wind of it and turned up too; so...
and
This shot makes them look like 6mmfigs, but is end-to-end on a 6’7” table... I don’t expect to field them all at the same time in action - I don’t suffer quite
that level of megalomania :D .
Artillery 4x6lb 12figs, von Barner’s Light Infantry (combined Musketeers and Jaegers) 54figs, Prinz Ludwig Dragoons (foot) 55figs {enough to refight the Bennington Redoubt at 1:5}.
Major General Frederick von Riedesel - who appears to have been slimming, staff and dog 7figs
Artillery 2x3lb, 2x6lb 14figs, Breyman’s Grenadier Battalion (ex-Riedesel, Prinz Frederick, Rhetz and Specht Regiments) 48figs, Hesse Hanau Jaegers 21figs.
1st Brigade: Regiment von Rhetz 75figs, Regiment von Riedesel 74figs, Regiment von Specht 77figs.
2nd Brigade: Regiment Prinz Frederick 75figs, Hesse Hanau Erbprinz Regiment (including grenadiers) 83figs, and Division General/ADC (at far left) 4figs
Total 601figs (including the dog) which is a figure ratio about 1:6point8... :shock: this is low even by BG! standards; but I should point out that the regiments
will generally be called into action each as two separate wings, that the regimental officers are there purely to hold the marker-dice and that this makes
them far less cumbersome, more in the region of 32figs and by simply not counting the figures on the command/colours bases this would be 2x24fig
units... That doesn’t sound quite so big does it?
However, having them all on the table at the same time is somewhat tempting... :wink:
Here is a close-up of the Hesse Hanau Ebprinz Rgt; just for the pink flags... they must be pretty tough to take them on the field with them!!!
GJ