Friday, January 6, 2012

SYW - Prussian Army: Füsilier-Regiment No. 41

Figures:  FrontRank
Scale:  28mm




This is the first almost finished stand of my regiment I´m doing during the next few weeks. It´s going to be the regiment of prussian fusiliers No41. 


The basing is done in the pattern of "Die Kriegskunst". I hope that I will manage to play this game in future, though there are still a lot of minis to paint for that.


My comrades and I also want to test the rules of Sam Mustafa "Might and reason" and also the new one "Maurice" that is going to be published in summer 2012. I hope that the basing does fit for these rules.


The shown command stand isn´t ready yet. I´m awaiting a delivery from GMB with the needed flags. But to give you an impression of how this flag looks like I also placed a photo of it.


The regiment will have 20 figures in summary. So here´s another picture of the other guys waiting for their recruitment and their prussian coats.

8 comments:

  1. Nice looking unit so far and if LaSalle is anything to go by then then those other rules from Sam should be very nice indeed!

    Christopher

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  2. A, Prussians, they look fine! Accidentally I'm Prussian myself and always pleased by SYW-minis.
    Do you want to play battle lines one base deep?

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  3. Very good paintjob!

    Dir und Deiner Familie noch alles Gute für das neue Jahr!

    Gruß
    Uwe

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  4. Great painting, Front Rank figures seem to paint up so well, you've certainly made a fine job with these!

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  5. Thank you all.
    In the rules I read that infantry is only allowed to build line- or march-formations. Only cavalry is allowed to build columns. So there´s only one battle-line for infantry.
    Maybe Thomas meant this?

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  6. I ask because if I remember correctly battle lines were three ranks deep in this era. So if you take these bases with two men deep, you are very close to the real formation.

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  7. Hi Thomas,

    you are right. The battle lines were three ranks deep indeed. The rules "Die Kriegskunst" and/or "Maurice" tell that the single bases are two ranks deep.

    I made a mistake within my last comment.
    I wrote that infantry is not allowed to build columns. I meant they are not allowed to form "massed formations". This means a formation two bases wide and two bases deep.

    If you are interested in the rules of "Maurice" you can have a look on the Website of SamMustafa. Just click on the link which you can find on the link list of my blog (SamMustafa - Might and reason). You can find a free lite-version for download. I´m looking through this rules at the moment. In summer 2012 the full version will be published.

    As SamMustafa always develops very good games I´m sure that this game will be very good, too.

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