I hope everyone is in fine fettle? Last week, Mrs Fawr and I managed to finally have a holiday (in Devon), where the pubs were OPEN and the weather was glorious! 🙂 However, we’re now back in the People’s Glorious Republic of Drakefordistan which is behind the curve as always, but yesterday we finally caught up with civilisation as the pubs reopened here as well! 🙂 The Carmarthen Old Guard will also be reopening next week, so (fingers crossed) it seems that sanity and wargaming (two words not normally found in the same sentence) are finally starting to return. I hope it’s all heading in the same direction wherever you are.
However, one small fly in the ointment was that we returned to find that our furry nemesis (generally known as ‘The Little Bastard’ or ‘The Black Beast of Aaaargh!’) was feeling sicker than a regimental tailor of Neapolitan hussars who had just been shown the new uniform designs by Murat…
This is decidedly not a happy Little Bastard…
‘Thankfully’ and thanks to our long-suffering and much-bitten vet Bronwen, The Little Bastard is now on the mend and is making my life a living hell, as usual.
‘The Drugs DO Work’… What a difference a day makes. The Little Bastard is now back to her usual evil self. Here seen devouring the remains of one of Royal Mail’s Finest…
Anyway as discussed last time, in addition to creating some new Seven Years War armies, I’ve been expanding my Prussians. Last time I looked at some new officers, Horse Artillery and Musketeer Regiments and compared the respective size of my old Lancashire Games and Old Glory 15s figures to my new Eureka figures. This time I’m looking at some recently-painted Füsilier Regiments and Grenadier Battalions. These are all Eureka 18mm figures.
Above: The Füsilier Regiment ‘Münchow’ (IR 36) (known as ‘Alt-Münchow’ from 1758) was named for Gustav Bogislaw von Münchow, who had been the regiment’s Chef since its creation in 1740.
The regiment was heavily engaged in the first campaigns of the war and had a good battlefield reputation. At the Battle of Kolin in 1757 the regiment was in Hülsen’s vanguard division and as the army turned to face the Austrians, it found itself as the leftmost infantry regiment in the line. The regiment performed superbly, capturing the key Krzerczhorz oak-wood, but did so alone and unsupported and was soon forced back by increasing Austrian pressure. As the regiment fell back it came under fierce attack by Austrian cavalry and by the end of the day had lost 931 men.
Reduced to a single battalion, the regiment battled on and fought in Frederick’s great victory of Leuthen. The regiment was restored to two battalions in 1758, but in 1759 had the misfortune to be assigned to Finck’s corps, which surrendered en masse at the Battle of Maxen. In 1760 the regiment was reformed as a single battalion, as part of the garrison of Schweidnitz. However, in 1761 the Austrians once again recaptured Schweidnitz and the regiment went into the bag for a second time. It was not re-raised until after the war.
The regiment’s grenadier companies spent the war massed as part of Grenadier Battalion 35/36.
Above: The ‘Münchow’ Füsiliers, like most Prussian Füsilier Regiments, had a relatively simple uniform, devoid of lapels and lace. The coat had white Swedish cuffs, white collar, shoulder-strap and small-clothes, poppy red linings, black neck-stock and yellow ‘metal’ (i.e. buttons, officers’ hat-lace and cap metalwork).
The regimental colours had grey as the distinguishing colour. I normally get my Prussian flags from Fighting 15s, but they only do the post-SYW lilac version (which was presumably adopted when the regiment was reformed after the SYW). I’ve therefore printed these flags myself, using the picture files from Kronoskaf. The flag-staves were white.
Above: A rear view of the ‘Münchow’ Füsiliers, showing the plain white back to their Füsilier caps. Note that Prussian infantry officers never wore Füsilier or Grenadier caps and always wore hats.
Above: The Füsilier Regiment ‘Jung-Braunschweig’ (IR 39) was first raised in 1741 with Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick as its Chef, but in 1745 the colonelcy was passed to Ferdinand’s youngest brother, Prince Frederick Francis of Brunswick (King Frederick of Prussia was married to their sister, Elisabeth Christine). From 1755 the regiment was officially known as ‘Jung-Braunscheig’ to avoid confusion with Prince Ferdinand’s new regiment, Musketeer Regiment ‘Alt-Braunschweig’ (IR5). However, in 1758 Prince Frederick Francis of Brunswick was killed at the Battle of Hochkirch and the post of Chef remained vacant for the rest of the war.
The regiment was heavily engaged throughout the early part of the war, being present at the Battles of Prague, Breslau, Leuthen and Hochkirch. While not being one of the legendary regiments, it performed consistently well and managed to avoid any major disasters.
The regiment’s grenadier companies served in Grenadier Battalion 12/39.
Above: The ‘Jung-Braunschweig’ Füsiliers wore the typically simple Füsilier style of uniform, without lapels or lace. The coat had lemon yellow Swedish cuffs, shoulder-strap and collar with white ‘metal’ and poppy red linings. The small-clothes were also lemon yellow and the neck-stock was black. The uniform is almost identical to that of the ‘Prince Henry’ Füsiliers (IR 35), who used sulphur yellow as the distinguishing colour.
Note that a few SYW uniform books, most notably ‘Uniforms of the Seven Years War’ by Mollo erroneously include an ‘Officer of the 39th Regiment’. However, they’ve got their Brunswicks confused, as those plates are based on this famous portrait of Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick (right), wearing the regimental uniform for Musketeer Regiment ‘Alt-Braunschweig’ (IR 5), with straw-coloured facings (including lapels), matching small-clothes and gold ‘Brandenburg’ lace.
The flags are by Fighting 15s. The regiment’s flag-staves were painted lemon yellow to match the facing colour.
Above: A rear view of the ‘Jung-Braunschweig’ Füsiliers, showing the plain lemon yellow back to the regiment’s Füsilier caps.
Above: The Füsilier Regiment ‘Kreytzen’ (IR 40) started life as part of the army of the Duchy of Sachsen-Eisenach. However, in October 1740, as the newly-crowned King Frederick II of Prussia began preparing for war with Austria, his uncle the Duke of Sachsen-Eisenach gave him the regiment as a demonstration of his allegiance and loyalty in the coming war.
At the start of the Seven Years War the position of Chef was held by General Johann Friedrich von Kreytzen and the regiment bore his name (briefly becoming ‘Alt-Kreytzen’ in 1758) until 1759, when Kreytzen died of an asthma attack while in camp near Neisse. The position of Chef then transferred to General Georg Carl Gottlob von der Gabelentz and the regiment was therefore known as the ‘Gabelentz’ Füsiliers from then on.
The regiment fought well at Prague and Kolin in 1757, but then suffered a run of bad luck, starting with being captured during the unsuccessful defence of Schweidnitz later that same year. The regiment was quickly exchanged, but in 1758 at the Battle of Zorndorf its 2nd Battalion was routed by hussars while on detached duty defending an artillery battery. Worse was to follow in 1759 at the Battle of Paltzig, where the regiment as a whole suffered very heavy losses. The regiment once again suffered heavy losses in 1760 during the Siege of Dresden at the hands of Austrian Grenzer.
The regiment’s grenadiers spent the war massed as part of Grenadier Battalion 37/40.
Above: The ‘Kreytzen’ Füsiliers wore one of the more spectacular uniforms of the Prussian Army and were presumably regular participants in the annual ‘Potsdam Pride’ Parade. As with most Füsilier regiments, the coat for the rank-and-file was fairly plain, lacking lapels and lace. The Swedish cuffs, shoulder-strap and collar were coloured rose pink and the ‘metal’ was white. Most unusually, the linings were also coloured the same as the facings, instead of the usual poppy red colouring. The small-clothes were also rose pink and the neck-stock was black. Officers’ coats were a little more spectacular, having the addition of rose pink lapels and silver ‘Brandenburg’ lace on the buttonholes.
The flags, which are by Fighting 15s, reflected the rose pink theme and were of a unique design, featuring the chain of the Order of the Black Eagle in lieu of the usual wreath surrounding the central medallion. The staves were white.
Above: A rear view of the ‘Kreytzen’ Füsiliers, showing the unusual rose pink coat-linings (visible as turnbacks) and the plain rose pink backs to the Füsilier caps.
Above: The Füsilier Regiment ‘Diericke’ (IR 59) was created on 26th November 1758 from the Prussian Army’s Pioneer Regiment, in honour of their heroic performance at the Battle of Zorndorf, where they not only fought as infantry but also captured two Russian batteries. The regiment is sometimes referred to as Füsilier Regiment ‘Sers’ for its Colonel, Philipp Loth von Sers. However, Colonel von Sers was never the Chef. That title was given to Christian Friedrich von Diericke on the date of the Füsilier Regiment’s creation. However, the former unit may however have been referred to as Pioneer Regiment ‘Sers’, as it was standard practice to refer to units by their commander’s name if there was no designated Chef (e.g. in the case of combined Grenadier Battalions and artillery batteries).
The Pioneer Regiment was organised much the same as a regular infantry regiment, though instead of Grenadiers it had two companies of Miners. When the regiment became a Füsilier Regiment the Miners were split off to form a separate Mining Corps and the Grenadier Companies were not formed until 1782.
The regiment went on to fight at the Battle of Paltzig, where it suffered heavy losses. This was followed by the Battle of Kunersdorf, where the regiment was used as a rearguard to cover Frederick’s withdrawal, but was overrun and mostly captured. The survivors formed the core of a new regiment, which went on to fight for the rest of the war without further disaster.
Above: The ‘Diericke’ Füsiliers were yet another regiment who wore a plain coat without lapels or lace, but who managed to pull off a striking colour scheme, thanks to their choice of small-clothes. The coat was very plain, with blue Swedish cuffs and shoulder-strap (matching the coat colour), no collar and white ‘metal’. Officers had silver Brandenburg lace on the breast, cuffs and pockets. The only splashes of colour were the poppy red linings and piping on tail-pockets and shoulder-strap. Neck-stocks were black. The main colour was provided by the small-clothes, which were coloured dark orange.
The flags are again by Fighting 15s. The distinguishing colour was earth brown, reflecting their original role. The flag-staves were white.
Above: A rear view of the ‘Diericke’ Füsiliers, showing the backs of the Füsilier caps. The regiment initially had Pioneer Caps, which were lower than the Füsilier pattern, being dark orange, piped white, with a white pompom on top of the crown and a silvered front plate that was distinctly lower than that fitted to the Füsilier-type cap. Sources disagree as to when the Füsilier caps were issued, but there are several surviving examples in Russian, Belorussian and Ukrainian collections that had been captured at Paltzig and Kunersdorf, so it seems very likely that they were issued very close to the regiment’s creation and there are suggestions that the caps were being issued to the Pioneer Regiment even before its conversion to Füsiliers.
Sources disagree further on the colouring of the Füsilier cap; all agree that the crown of the cap was dark blue, but they are split over whether the band was dark orange or ‘light red’ (i.e. a light crimson shade). There are also disagreements re the colour of the metalwork, as the surviving examples are all brass, without a trace of the silver paint that was normally applied to regiments with ‘white’ metal. I’ve gone with white metal, as it doesn’t seem likely to me that they would be the only unit in the Prussian Army to have a cap plate that didn’t match the button colour.
Above: Grenadier Battalion 4/16 was formed from the Grenadier companies of Musketeer Regiments ‘Kalnein’ (IR 4) and ‘Graf zu Dohna’ (IR 16). As previously discussed, Prussian regiments weren’t known by numbers at the time of the Seven Years War (not until 1806, in fact) and were instead known by a designated title (e.g. ‘Garde’), the name of the regimental Chef, or in the case of units without Chefs (e.g. artillery units and combined Grenadier Battalions), by the name of their Commanding Officer.
In this instance, the battalion went through five COs (and associated names) through the course of the Seven Years War; Polentz (1756-57), Kleist (1757-58), Willemey (1758-59), Beneckendorff (1759-1762) and Thielau (1762) and clearly illustrates why it’s invariably easier to identify units by their anachronistic numbers!
Above: Grenadier Battalion 4/16, like the majority of Prussian Grenadier Battalions, was formed at the start of the war from four Grenadier Companies – two each from two regiments. These pairings remained unchanged for the entire war, though different pairings were used in other wars (in the case of the War of Austrian Succession/Silesian Wars, the pairings had changed with each new phase of the war). There would therefore be two different uniforms used within each battalion:
On the left we see the grenadiers of IR 4, whose coat had no lapels, but the breast and cuff-flaps were decorated with white lace buttonholes. The officers of IR 4 had an unusual scalloped gold lace edging to the coat front-seams, collar, pockets and cuffs. Pompoms were red/blue/red.
On the right are the grenadiers of IR 16, whose coat had red lapels, with buttons unusually arranged in threes and no lace decoration. The officers had gold lace buttonholes, arranged in threes as mentioned. Pompoms were white with black ‘freckles’ and a red centre.
Both regiments had straw small-clothes, poppy red linings and Brandenburg cuffs, no collar, blue shoulder-strap, red neck-stock and yellow ‘metal’.
Above: A rear view of Grenadier Battalion 4/16, showing the rear of the caps. These were straw with a red band for both regiments. It’s impossible to paint the piping details in 15mm, but IR 4 (here on the right) had blue/red/blue piping, while IR 16 (here on the left) had blue/white/red/white/blue piping. I find that with complicated lace colours, it’s often best to look at the picture from across the room and see what colour it looks like from there!
Note that Prussian Grenadier Battalions DID NOT CARRY FLAGS! I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating… The only exceptions were the 3rd Battalion of the ‘Garde‘ Regiment (IR 15), who all wore grenadier caps and the ‘Grenadier-Garde‘ (IR 6), which was a single-battalion regiment (the descendant unit of King Frederick-Williams’ ‘Potsdam Giants’) who again all wore grenadier caps. The first Prussian combined Grenadier Battalions to receive flags were those formed in 1813!
Above: Grenadier Battalion 17/22 was formed from Musketeer Regiments ‘Manteuffel’ (IR 17) and ‘Prinz Moritz’ (IR 22). This was another well-travelled and hard-fighting unit that got through a whopping six COs and changes of title during the Seven Years War: Puttkamer (1756-57), Wrede (1757), Kremzow (1757-59), Von der Tann (1759-60), Wobersnow (1760) & Rothenburg (1760-62).
Above: Grenadier Battalion 17/22. The grenadiers of IR 17, here on the left, had white small-clothes, lapels, shoulder-strap, collar and Brandenburg cuffs and red & white ‘toothpaste-stripe’ buttonhole lace (which I’ve painted as salmon-pink, as that what it looks like at a distance). The officers had gold Brandenburg lace buttonholes. Pompoms were red/white/green.
The grenadiers of IR 22, here on the right, had poppy red lapels and Brandenburg cuffs (no collar), a blue shoulders-strap piped red and lace edging to the cuffs, as well as two lace buttonholes below the lapels. The officers instead had gold Brandenburg lace buttonholes on the lapels and cuff-flaps. Small-clothes were straw. Pompoms were red/white.
Both regiments had yellow ‘metal’, red neck-stocks and poppy red linings.
Above: A rear view of Grenadier Battalion 17/22, showing the cap detail. The grenadiers of IR 17, here on the right, had an all-white cap. The lace was white, decorated with red dots and here depicted as salmon-pink.
The grenadiers of IR 22, here on the left, had a blue cap with a red band. The lace was white/blue/white, here simply depicted as white.
Above: No. II Standing Grenadier Battalion (45/48/gIX). As discussed before, the Grenadier Companies of Garrison Infantry Regiments and a few higher-numbered Füsilier Regiments (IRs 41, 44, 45 & 48) were permanently grouped as Standing Grenadier Battalions during peacetime, in order to supplement the garrisons of various key fortresses. In wartime they mostly took to the field with the army. These battalions were known as Nos. I to VI Standing Grenadier Battalions, but could also be known by the name of their CO. In some instances they are referred to in histories by the regimental numbers of their component parts (e.g. Grenadier Battalion 41/44 instead of No. III Standing Grenadier Battalion).
Despite being heavily engaged at a number of large battles including Prague, Breslau, Leuthen and Hochkirch, this battalion managed to only burn through two COs: Ingersleben (1756-57) and Unruh (1757-1762).
The battalion was originally formed from the two Grenadier Companies of the ‘Dossow’ Füsiliers (IR 45) and one company each from Garrison Infantry Regiment IX and Garrison Infantry Regiment XIII. These last two regiments had only one Grenadier Company apiece. Then in July 1755 (some sources say May 1756), Garrison Infantry Regiment XIII was re-titled as the Füsilier Regiment ‘Erbprinz von Hessen-Kassel’ (IR 48). The new IR 48 still had only one Grenadier Company, so the organisation of No. II Standing Grenadier Battalion remained unchanged apart from the slight change of sub-unit titles.
Above: The uniform for the grenadiers of the ‘Dossow’ Füsiliers (IR 45), here on the left, was the same as the uniform of their parent regiment; poppy red Brandenburg cuffs and linings, no lapels or collar, blue shoulder-strap piped red, yellow ‘metal’, white buttonhole lace on breast and cuff-flaps, red neck-stock and white small-clothes. The officers had gold buttonhole lace (some sources show the officers’ lace as only a pair of buttonholes below the breast, a pair on each pocket and none on the cuff-flaps). Pompoms were yellow/black/red.
The uniforms of the other two companies, here shown on the right, were identical to each other, being based on the uniform of Garrison Infantry Regiments IX & XIII, but differing in very small details. The uniforms did not change when GIR XIII became IR 48. the coats were very plain, having black Swedish cuffs and collar, with blue shoulder-strap, poppy red linings, yellow ‘metal’, no lapels and no lace. Neck-stocks were black (though for some reason I’ve painted them red…) and small-clothes were white (note that the parent regiments had dark blue small-clothes). The Officers had gold scalloped hat-lace, but no lace on the coat. Pompoms were yellow/black/light blue.
Above: A rear view of No. II Standing Grenadier Battalion, showing the cap details. The grenadiers of IR 45, here shown on the right, had white caps with a blue band and lace coloured the same as the pompom (I’ve tried to do yellow piping within red – I should have just gone with orange).
The grenadiers of GIR IX and GIR XIII/IR 48, here shown on the left, had red caps with a brass band and piping again in the pompom colourings (which I’ve done as yellow within light blue – I should have stuck with just light blue).
Enough for now! I’m presently just finishing off the first division of French cavalry, so they’ll be posted here soon. I’ll also try to get some Cold War stuff photographed while I’m at it. The Frogs should all be painted by the end of this weekend, so then it’ll be on to the British and Hanoverians…
In addition to all the new Seven Years War armies and units recently mentioned, I’ve also been building up my Prussian army with a load of new infantry units from 
As previously discussed, my original SYW collection consisted of 
Above: Here’s a comparison of Prussian Musketeer figures by (Left to Right) Old Glory 15s, Eureka, Lancashire Games Mk 1 and Mk 2. Bear in mind that the cast-on Eureka bases are actually a little thicker than the others – as much as 1mm thicker compared to Old Glory 15s. Also note that the Old Glory are in a sort of lunging-forward/crouched pose. Height-wise they’re all much the same. The Lancashire Mk 1 figures are the skinniest, while the Mk 2 are the chunkiest. Eureka and Old Glory 15s are very close in terms of build, with the Old Glory figures having somewhat oversized heads and hats.
Above: Here’s a comparison of Prussian Füsiliers. Lancashire Mk 1 on the left, Eureka in the centre and Lancashire Mk 2 on the right (I don’t have any Old Glory 15s Füsiliers). Again, the height to eye-level is virtually the same for all three and the ‘build’ is the same as for the Musketeers. The Füsilier caps are quite radically different for all three, however and does accentuate the height-difference. 
Above: Lastly, here’s a comparison of Prussian Grenadiers. Old Glory 15s on the left, Eureka in the centre and Lancashire Mk 1 on the right (I don’t have any Lancashire Mk 2 Grenadiers). again, the Old Glory 15s and Eureka figures are very close in size, though the Lancashire Mk 1 figures in this instance are very weedy and un-Grenadier-like! However, the Eureka figures have clearly been modelled using British grenadier heads, as the cap has the upturned false ‘peak’ above the eyes and the pompom is more of a British-style tassel than the Prussian ‘mushroom’ shape. The cap is also generally smaller than the Füsilier cap shown above, when it should be larger! These are therefore, definitely the weakest of the Eureka Prussians (I absolutely love the Musketeers and Fusiliers).
Above: Although I’ve already got a King Frederick army command group, it suddenly occurred to me that I could do with having another Prussian army commander for those occasions when the King wasn’t present. I still have quite a few spare Old Glory 15s generals, so picked out this map-reading officer (I think he’s actually an Austrian figure, as the same chap appears among my 
Above: There was no officially-designated uniform for Prussian general officers during this period, so generals wore a version of their own regimental uniform. In Bevern’s case, this was 
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Above: The initial uniform of the Prussian Horse Artillery was essentially unchanged from their original Artillery uniform; a plain dark blue coat with poppy red linings and piping on the pockets and cuff-flaps, brass buttons, straw small-clothes, white belts, red neck-stocks, white hat lace and pompoms coloured yellow/blue/red/white. Only their tall heavy cavalry boots (replacing the usual shoes and gaiters) and straw-coloured gauntlets marked them out as mounted troops.
Above: As mentioned above, the Horse Artillery initially wore the same pompoms on its hats as the rest of the Artillery branch. However, in 1762 there was a general order for Prussian mounted troops to adopt a short white feather plume as a national field-sign in order to aid battlefield recognition (the Austrians adopted their yellow & black plume at much the same time). This order probably wasn’t carried out until just AFTER the Seven Years War, but what the hell, as they look lovely… 😉
Above: The ‘Alt-Braunschweig’ Regiment’s uniform had straw-coloured cuffs, collar, shoulder-strap, lapels and small-clothes, though some sources suggest that this colour had changed to white. The linings and piping on cuff-flaps and tail-pockets were poppy red. The junior ranks had a pair of orange lace buttonholes below the lapels. The ‘metal’ colour was yellow and officers had gold ‘Brandenburg’ buttonhole lace on the lapels and cuff-flaps. Pompoms were coloured (from top to bottom) red/white/straw. The flag-staves were cherrywood (not that Prussian officers’ and NCOs’ pole-arms were always coloured the same as the flag-staves).
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Above: The ‘Itzenplitz’ Regiment’s uniform was very similar to that of the ‘Alt-Braunschweig’ Regiment above, except that the straw colouring was distinctly more pale in shade and the ‘metal’ colour was white. The lace buttonholes below the lapels were white and there were an additional two lace buttonholes on the cuff-flaps. The officers had no lace on the lapels. Pompoms were yellow. The flags are again by Fighting 15s and the flag-staves were light brown wood.
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Above: The ‘Markgraf Karl’ Regiment’s uniform had poppy red cuffs, collar, linings and piping on pockets and cuff-flaps. The coat didn’t have lapels, but the breast and cuff-flaps were decorated with buttonhole lace. The lace was made of mixed orange and white threads, so I’ve depicted it as pale orange. The ‘metal colour was yellow, the neck-stocks were red, the small-clothes were straw and the pompoms were coloured orange/white. The officers’ coats were heavily decorated with gold buttonhole lace. 
Where has the last year gone?! Perhaps it’s a consequence of Covid Groundhog Days, but it only seems like a couple of months since I was writing 
One unexpected consequence of the pandemic and lockdown is that the stats for this blog absolutely sky-rocketed immediately after the start of lockdown in March 2020 and have only kept climbing! In the first year I received 20,000 hits on the blog, which I was perfectly happy with. I then had 40,000 hits in the second year, bringing the total to 60,000 and since then I’ve received another 65,000 hits, bringing the total to over 125,000! My ‘followers’ (I prefer to call them ‘supplicants’ or perhaps ‘disciples’) have also doubled in the last year to over 80. The only explanation I can find is that desperate times bring desperate means to find entertainment… Or sleep…
In the meantime, I’ve still got a vast heap of pictures, articles and scenarios in the crypts of Fawr Towers, so there will be plenty to post here on the blog, even if we don’t manage to get wargaming again for a while yet! Sorry if the Seven Years War doesn’t float your boat, but I will get back to all things Olive Drab, Khaki Drill, Jungle Green, Dunkelgelbe and DPM again soon, I promise! 🙂
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In a nutshell, the Holy Roman Empire was divided up into ten ‘Imperial Circles’ (Kreisen) or Districts, with each district being required to provide the Reichsarmee with a contingent of Foot and Horse, the number of whom would be based on the population of the district. Each duchy, principality, county and bishopric within the district would then be required to provide a set portion of the contingent, again based on their population. The only parts of the Reichsarmee to be formed centrally from Imperial taxes would be the Imperial General Staff and the
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Above: The Ferntheil Regiment (became the Hohenlohe Regiment in 1759). All three Franconian infantry theoretically regiments carried colours of a common pattern. Each battalion officially carried three colours; the 1st Battalion having the Leibfahne and two Kompaniefahnen, while the 2nd Battalion carried three Kompaniefahnen. The pattern was changed in 1757, with the new flags being issued in 1758, so these flags are wrong for Rossbach (more of which later) and the older type was probably therefore carried. However, no description or surviving example of the older type has been found, so these will have to do!
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Above: With their white coats and red facings, the uniforms for the Fürstenberg Regiment are very similar to other Imperial contingents, such as the Red Würzburg, Salzburg and Kurtrier Regiments, as well as many Austrian regiments. However, this does mean that you can sneak them in at the back of an Austrian army to make up the numbers if needed! The details of the uniform are almost identical to those of the Red Würzburgers described earlier, with white coat and breeches, red lapels, cuffs and turnbacks, white metal buttons, white hat-lace and red-over-white pompoms. However, Fürstenberg had no collar on the coat and had red waistcoats instead of white. The Grenadiers had brown-black bearskins with a white metal front-plate and red bag.
Above: A rear view of the Fürstenberg Regiment. Note that the drummers’ uniforms are not known, so I’ve arbitrarily gone for reversed colours of red coats with white facings. 
The flags were carried on black & white spiraled staves with gold finials. These are taken from the Kronoskaf article and were then printed on my own laser printer. I’ve given the 1st Battalion a white Leibfahne and the 2nd Battalion a yellow Ordinärfahne, though in reality each battalion probably followed the usual practice of having two flags per battalion – one of each type in the 1st Battalion and a pair of Ordinärfahne for the 2nd Battalion. 
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Above: The Hohenzollern Cuirassiers wore a uniform very similar to that of the Austrian cuirassier regiments, being a white coat with red facings (including lapels), white metal buttons and straw small-clothes. However, sources are not clear on whether or not the regiment was actually equipped with cuirasses and they are usually depicted without. the hat had white lace with a black cockade and red corner-rosettes. Horse furniture was red with a double stripe of white lace around the edge, though with the outermost edge being red (I was clearly a bit lazy when I painted these). Officers had silver hat and shabraque lace and an Austrian-style gold and black sash. Trumpeters’ uniforms from the period are not known, but Kronoskaf gives a uniform from 1794, being a red coat with ‘false sleeves’ and white facings, all laced silver.
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Above: The Kurtier Regiment again followed the popular Imperial theme of white coats with red cuffs, lapels and turnbacks (no collar) with white metal buttons. Neck-stocks were black and small-clothes were white. The hat lacked pompoms, but had white scalloped lace edging and a black cockade.
Above: A rear view of the Kurtrier Regiment. The regiment’s drummers are described as having light blue coats with red facings and white metal buttons, along with light blue small-clothes.
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Above: The Hessen-Darmstadt Regiment’s uniform was a dark blue, Prussian-style coat with white metal buttons, white facings (no lapels), white aiguillette on right shoulder and heavily laced with white buttonhole lace. Neck-stocks were red and small-clothes were white. The hat had a black cockade and white pompoms, but sources disagree over the hat-lace; Kronoskaf says white hat-lace, while Pengel & Hurt say no hat-lace. Officers had silver buttonhole lace, silver scalloped hat-lace, silver gorgets and silver sashes striped with red. I’ve used 
Above: Sources differ markedly over the details of the grenadiers’ mitre cap. My only source at the time was Pengel & Hurt, who described a silver front with a blue enameled disc bearing the Hessian lion rampant in red and white. Knötel meanwhile showed a plain brass front, while Kronoskaf shows a plain silver front, though pierced to reveal a white cloth backing. All agree that it had a white band, blue bag, white piping and a white pompom. I must admit that I am rather pleased with those tiny stripy lions! 🙂
Above: As you can tell, I was still painting my flags in those days and these are quite spectacular! However, I’ve based them the wrong way around; the white Leibfahne should always stand on the right! I’ll have to have a word with my 1990s self…
General officers of the Reichsarmee initially wore a version of their own regimental dress (such as General von Wildenstein above, in the dress of his own Kurmainz Regiment) or some other concoction of their own design. However, the inevitable confusion this caused soon resulted in an order for all generals of the Reichsarmee to adopt 
Above: I’ve gone for the majority ‘Franconian Red’ option with regard to gun carriage colour. I’ll paint some other colours when I paint the next batch.
Above: The uniform of the Imperial Artillery Reserve was a dark blue coat with red cuffs, lapels, turnbacks, collar and shoulder-strap with white metal buttons. Small-clothes were dark blue. Neck-stocks and cross-belts were black, though waist-belts were white. The hat was laced white, with a black cockade.
Above: I used Old Glory 15s Austrian Artillery and simply painted on the lapels.
Joining the garrison of Prague alongside another Imperial auxiliary regiment, the 
Following Frederick’s withdrawal from Bohemia after his defeat at 
Imperial uniforms mostly fell into one of two camps: ‘Prussian Style’ and ‘Austrian Style’. Würzburg uniforms were very much in the Austrian camp, being indistinguishable from Austrian ‘German’ infantry uniform and I’ve therefore used 
The two Saxon-Polish Uhlan regiments proved to be superb light cavalry and highly skilled in the petit guerre of scouting and raiding, though didn’t take part in any major battles (which is fortunate, as I can’t find any decent figures for them). However, the others were assigned to Marshal Daun’s main army in Bohemia and excelled themselves at the Battle of Kolin (with the exception of the Karabiniergarde, who were routed by Prussian Dragoons). Saxon cavalry throughout history have often been among the best in Europe and these regiments were no exception to that rule. They fought on with the Austrian Army throughout the Seven Years War, even after the re-creation of the Royal Saxon Army, though by the end they were apparently ‘dressed in rags’. 
The 
The Saxon Chevauxlégers (above) are often defined in wargame army lists as ‘light cavalry’. However, while the literal translation obviously means ‘Light Horse’, the French definition of that term simply meant anyone lighter than a fully-armoured gendarme! So in the French army, ‘Chevauxlégers’ were the main heavy cavalry type, being routinely issued with cuirasses and armoured skull-caps and classed heavier than Dragoons; not exactly what might be termed ‘light cavalry’. 
The Chevauxléger Regiments were each organised into four squadrons, with 762 men at full strength. When committed to the Austrian Army in 1757 they were fairly close to full strength and in 1759 they actually exceeded 800 men per regiment. One of the eight companies (i.e. half-squadrons) in each regiment was designated as the elite Carabinier Company, though I’ve never found any information regarding special uniform distinctions for these men and they were probably dressed the same as the rest, though it’s possible that it was the Carabiniers who wore the short mitre caps shown in a few sources such as Knötel (right).
The Graf Brühl Chevauxlégers wore an iron grey coat with lapels, cuffs, turnbacks, collar and waistcoat in bleumourant (a bright shade of light blue), white metal buttons and a white aiguillette on the right shoulder. Breeches and gloves were straw-coloured. Neck-stocks were red. Belts were white. Horse furniture was bleumourant with white-red-white-red-white lace edging and ‘AR3’ cyphers in red, edged white, on the rear corners and holster-caps. The hat had a white cockade and bleumourant rosettes in the corners. Pengel & Hurt describe yellow hat-lace (gold for officers), while Kronoskaf describes white hat-lace (silver for officers). Officers wore silver & crimson sashes.
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The trumpeters and drummers of the Prinz Albrecht Chevauxlégers again followed the same pattern, having green coats with white facings. The lace this time was white. Their horses again were piebald.
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The trumpeters and drummers of the Prinz Karl Chevauxlégers had poppy red coats with green facings and yellow lace, this time including upward-pointing lace chevrons on each sleeve. There was no specified horse colour for the trumpeters and drummers of this regiment.
Saxon general officers all wore a standard regulation uniform which came into service from 1753. It consisted of a ponceau red coat with cuffs and collar in the same colour. The collar, cuffs and pockets were edged in a double row of gold lace, as were the front seams of the coat. The waistcoat was straw-coloured and had another double-row of gold lace down the front seams, with a line of red between the gold. Breeches were straw and white gloves were usually worn. The hat was edged with straight or scalloped gold lace and split white ostrich feathers, with a white cockade held in place with a gold strap. The sash was mixed silver and crimson. Horse furniture was crimson with gold lace edging.
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While having a rummage through an old campaign chest filled with mouldy old rule-books and the like, I recently came across two old copies of Wargames Illustrated (November & December 2000). These two magazines contain my article on the AB Figures Wargames Weekend 2000, where we played the 
This was the second of three such Wargames Weekends; the first in 1999 was the 
Above: The village of Hassenhausen at 0930hrs. As the morning mist lifts, Davout and his staff, escorted by a squadron of the 1st Chasseurs, ride forward to assess the situation of Gudin’s Division, just as Blücher launches a huge, yet foolhardy and unsupported cavalry assault on the squares of Petit’s Brigade (12e & 21e de Ligne). In the distance, the Prussian infantry of Schemttau’s Division (Schimonsky’s and Alvensleben’s Brigades) starts to deploy around the village of Taugwitz.
Above: As Petit’s squares hold back the Prussian horsemen, the first battalions of Friant’s Division arrive to stabilise the situation. However, yet more Prussian infantry are beginning to appear from the misty valley of the Lissbach; this is Wartensleben’s Division (Renouard’s and Wedell’s Brigades).
Above: The view from Spielberg, behind Blücher. The Queen’s Dragoons, having already mounted two failed attacks, reform their lines as the ‘Heising’ Cuirassiers have a crack at the squares. In the distance, the Prussian advance guard infantry (the massed Schützen of Schmettau’s Division, the ‘Schack’ Grenadier Battalion and 2nd Battalion of the 33rd ‘Alvensleben’ Regiment) skirmish with Gudin’s Voltigeurs in the copse below Hassenhausen.
Above: The scene at 1100hrs. With Blücher’s cavalry assault beaten off, Friant extends the French line to Gudin’s right, as far as Spielberg (in the left foreground). Schmettau’s Division is now fully engaged with Friant and Gudin and the bodies are beginning to pile up. Reinforcements arrive in the form of Prince Henry’s Brigade of the Prince of Orange’s Division.
Above: The view from behind Prince Henry’s Brigade as Schmettau’s Division assaults the French line between Hassenhausen and Spielberg. On the right, King Frederick-William III and his staff, escorted by the Gardes du Corps, move forward for a closer look. In the distance, Friant moves a regiment to extend his line further out to the right and Vialannes’ cavalry also move to envelop the Prussian left flank.
Above: On the Prussian right flank, Wartensleben’s Division is now fully engaged with Gudin around Hassenhausen as Prince William gather’s all remaining cavalry regiments in an attempt to envelop Davout’s left flank. However, Davout has moved Morand’s freshly-arrived division to that sector and the Prussian cavalry once again runs into a mass of squares. In the foreground, Renouard’s Brigade from the Prince of Orange’s Division moves up in support, but to little effect…
Sorry, but those are the only photos I’ve got 🙁 I’m sure the photos for the three AB Figures games must be here somewhere (it’s such a long time ago that they were PROPER photos, printed on paper and living in a packet!), so I might one day be able to post the actual game photos here.
As the terminally bored and bewildered followers of this blog will know, when not playing with myself I’ve been setting myself various painting challenges throughout the latest lockdown in order to keep the painting-mojo going while wargames clubs are closed and wargaming opportunities are non-existent. The sudden 
I always like to paint a historical order of battle, as it gives me a clear objective and satisfies my deep-seated obsessive-compulsive need to make lists and then tick things off the list. That then forms the core of an army and I can then add special or specific units for scenarios when required. I’m therefore painting the order of battle for the 
Here’s a little painting aide-memoire I made for myself, taking bits and pieces from the excellent 
Above: The first brigade to be painted was the Royal Roussillon Brigade, consisting of the 1st Battalion of the 
Above: The 1st Battalion of the 
Above: The observant will have noticed that the 1st Battalion of the Royal Roussillon Regiment is depicted in the painting at the top of this page. However, that painting actually depicts the North American theatre where the 2nd Battalion of the regiment was stationed, so the painting isn’t actually correct. The 1st Battalion of any French infantry regiment carried a white Colonel’s Colour, paired with a coloured Ordonnance Colour, while the 2nd and subsequent battalions each carried a pair of Ordonnance Colours. The painting therefore shows the pair of colours that would have been carried by the 1st Battalion in Europe, rather than the 2nd Battalion in America.
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Above: The Royal Deux-Ponts Regiment started the war with two battalions, but this was very soon increased to three. French brigades were almost always maintained at four battalions, hence they were paired with the single-battalion Royal Roussillon Regiment. In 1758 this increased again to four battalions, but in 1760 was reduced back to two battalions. The flags here are printed by 
Above: The next brigade to be painted was the St Chamond Brigade, consisting of two battalions of the 
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Above: The La Viefville St Chamond Regiment, like the vast majority of French regiments, wore coats made of unbleached white wool. Variations in region and quality meant that the exact colour of the coat could sometimes vary slightly from regiment to regiment, but the colour is usually depicted or described as ‘pearl-grey’, ‘drab’, ‘beige’ or ‘cream’. What it was not was dyed a uniform shade of grey, which is what was once depicted in older uniform books and wargames armies. When I did my 
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Above: The Cossé-Brissac Regiment. The gaiters for all French infantry regiments were made from bleached canvas, each secured with buttons up the side and a brown leather garter below the knee. In paintings and reenactor photos they often look whiter than the coat, so I’ve used a basecoat of Humbrol 103 cream and the highlight of pure white. The garter is Humbrol 98 chocolate brown.
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Above: Although not a ‘Royal’ regiment, the Piémont was a provincial regiment rather than a ‘Gentleman’s’ regiment, so its drummers wore the King’s livery.
Above: With the white-coated infantry done, I moved onto the artillery for a splash of colour. These chaps are depicted with their coats, belts and swords removed and working only in their red waistcoats, which makes painting them a very easy process.
Above: As I’ve got a massive stash of guns by Old Glory 15s, I decided to use those instead of buying guns from Eureka. I was looking forward to a nice phalanx of lovely red guns and had been saving an old tin of Humbrol 60 signal red for the purpose, as it was from an old bad batch that was much darker than the usual bright shade. However… Once again, I have learned not to just read the Osprey book, but to check online for the latest research… 🙁
Above: A couple of the Eureka gunners had bloody enormous rammers that were impossibly floppy and would never be able to stay stiff for long on the table, so needed drastic surgery…
Above: I did six guns and crews in all; four light guns and two heavies. Here are the two heavies, including the converted rammers. I gave the light guns three crewmen apiece – partly to accentuate the difference in calibre, but mainly because I’m a cheapskate.
Above: Lastly here are Les Generaux! One army commander and staff, six divisional commanders and two ADCs. Unfortunately, in painting these I may have just started the Great Gold Paint Famine of 2021…
Above: “Sir! Here’s the menu from the local Ottoman take-away. What do you want and do you want to go halves on the rice?”
Above: Another Lieutenant-General supervises the deployment of his troops as another pair of Lieutenant-Generaux chat in the background.
Above: Yet another Lieutenant-General supervises his troops as he dabs his nose with a hanky (I do like this figure). Behind him a pair of 
The curious feature of this range is that every building is designed to perfectly fit into a 50x 50mm or 50x100mm recess on the village tile. The tiles then have hedges and walls moulded on. the Hamlet tile is shown above, with some 15mm figures and TBM buildings shown for scale. 
The flexible nature of the tiles means that they MUST NOT be painted with spray paint, as that will simply crack and flake off. TBM recommend using acrylic paint, but I experimented with my usual thinned Humbrol enamel and it worked absolutely fine, though did stay sticky for a few weeks afterwards, which was strange. 
Having since painted two more tiles, they have now been painted for over six months and show absolutely no sign of cracking or flaking, so I’ll stick with enamel paint (I still have the large Town tile left to paint).
Here’s the Hamlet tile again with some different buildings. The casting was exceptionally clean and crisp on these models and there was absolutely no clean-up required whatsoever.
As with almost all wargames scenery, the scale-footprint of the buildings is reduced, otherwise the larger buildings (such as Essling Granary) would be absolutely gigantic on the table and in terms of game ground-scale would be as long as a 12pdr can shoot! It’s an eternal problem with wargame scenery, especially when we want to have famous buildings on the table, but which then fill an unhistorically-large area of the battlefield (e.g. Essling Granary and the Waterloo farms). The solution used by TBM seems to have been to exaggerate the vertical scale to make the large buildings look big, while keeping the footprint the same as the small buildings (50x100mm) and I have to say that it works really well! It might not be to everyone’s taste, but it works for me.
Note that the church supplied with the town set comes with three alternate spires – a tiled spire, a lead/copper-clad spire and a copper-clad onion dome. I’ve drilled and pinned them, so I can swap them around from game to game. The lead-clad spire is shown above and the tiled spire is shown here. If you buy the church as an individual model you pick which spire you want.
Lastly, here’s the church with its copper-clad onion dome.
I do like my new buildings. They’re already serving as back-drops for new photos and I can’t wait to get them in a game. 🙂 
My thanks to Rich Hasenauer for allowing me to use his maps and also for very kindly giving me one copy of the map with all the troops removed, so I can show the movements in my game. Here’s the cut-down map for the ‘Hornet’s Nest’ sub-scenario, which is essentially the lower-right portion of the main map. 
The key objective for both sides in this scenario is to retain control of the Sunken Road (between Points Y & Z on the second map). The Union Army has been surprised in its scattered encampments, so most of the troops still need to form up and march to the sound of the guns. The closest Union brigades must roll a die in the first turn, in order to determine how surprised they are during Turn 1.
Above: Miller’s Brigade is just spilling out of its tents and forming up on the Spain Field, along with two batteries of field artillery and General Prentiss.
Above: Well to the rear, Hurlbut’s Union Division is still lounging around in its tents at the Cloud Field.
Above: Stuart’s Union Brigade is also still in its camp at the Larkin Bell Field. Stuart’s Brigade included the 54th Ohio Zouaves, so I’ve shamelessly stuck my be-turbanned 114th Pennsylvania Zouaves on the table again! However, the 54th Ohio were slightly more restrained in their dress-sense, with artillery-style shell-jackets trimmed in red, light blue Zouave trousers with red stripes and a red fez with blue tassel.
Above: As the Confederate army approaches the Union encampments, the Rebel generals each take personal command of a brigade: General Hardee attaches himself to Shaver’s Brigade, and Hindman attaches himself to Wood, while both Johnston and Withers attach themselves to Gladden. The Rebels are hoping for complete surprise, but Peabody’s Union Brigade is alerted at the last minute by a ‘Hasty Alarm’. They manage to form up, but their firepower is halved and they only manage to disorder Wood. The return volley is Withering, throwing Peabody’s Brigade into disorder and Peabody himself off his now-departed horse! 
Above: Despite their surprise, the devastating casualties (reducing them immediately to ‘Worn’ status) and Peabody being temporarily detached from his brigade while searching for a fresh horse, the Bluebellies do not immediately collapse. However, they are Hard-Pressed and grudgingly give ground to the Rebels. Wood’s Brigade is already low on ammunition due to the intense opening volleys (the three markers at the back of Wood’s brigade are an officer figure to show that Wood is an Exceptional Leader, a loading soldier to show Low on Ammunition and a casualty figure to show Disorder).
Above: Gladden’s Confederate Brigade can only charge Miller’s Brigade with a Double-Quick result on his Manoeuvre Roll, but with both Withers and Johnston attached he achieves that admirably. Miller is completely surprised in the Spain Field, which means that his men are Disordered as they scramble from their tents and the two supporting batteries are silenced! Miller’s ragged volley causes no damage whatsoever to Gladden’s Rebels, but Gladden’s return volley is Withering.
Above: Gladden’s men are also now low on ammunition following their blistering hail of fire, so now fix bayonets and shout the Rebel Yell as they charge onto the Spain Field! Like Peabody, Miller doesn’t immediately collapse, though his men are Hard-Pressed and grudgingly fall back across the Spain Field.
Above: However, the steady withdrawal doesn’t last long, as Miller’s men pull back beyond musketry range, into the woods north of their camp, while Peabody’s men make a full retreat! While all this action is taking place, Brigadier-General Chalmers finds a side-road to the east, which will enable him to march around behind the Union left flank.
Above: The situation at the end of Turn 1.
Above: Sabre in hand, General Johnston urges Gladden to pursue Miller through the camp. However, Gladden is subjected to Telling Fire and his charge stalls among the tents of Miller’s former camp.
Above: Hindman’s Division charges through the camp to reach Peabody. However, Peabody’s brigade again fails to inflict any casualties on the Rebs, who then subject him to yet more Withering fire. Tragically, Peabody is shot dead while still trying to find a horse. Now Spent and Wavering, the late Brigadier Peabody’s Brigade retreats to the Barnes Field. Prentiss’ gunners meanwhile, are whipping their teams into a lather as they attempt to reach a better defensive position. 
Above: Despite having halted Gladden’s Rebels, Miller’s Brigade is still Wavering and falls back out of musketry range, through the woods, before crossing the Purdy-Hamburg Road to reach the open ground of Sarah Bell’s Cotton Field.
Above: However, Stuart’s Union Brigade has been alerted and is now moving to attack Gladden’s flank. Gladden spots the threat to his flank, but his men have become fixated on the prospect of loot in Miller’s abandoned camp!
Above: Support for Gladden’s open flank is coming in the form of Jackson’s and Chalmers’ Brigades (Withers’ Division), but they’re too far away to stop Stuart from charging.
Above: The situation at the end of Turn 2.
Above: Unable to charge into contact, this turn, Gladden’s and Wood’s Brigades pause to loot the Federal camps. This means that they automatically become disordered, but lose their Low on Ammunition status. This is small compensation to Gladden, as Stuart’s Zouaves charge his exposed flank!
Above: By some miracle, Gladden manages to hold his ground, though there is a Desperate Struggle (i.e. a draw), where both sides take losses. The mêlée goes into the second round with Gladden now Worn and at an even greater disadvantage. Amazingly, there is another Desperate Struggle and the melee goes into a third round with Stuart also now Worn! To much astonishment, Stuarts men Falter and fall back!
Above: Despite Prentiss’ attempts to stop the retreat, Peabody’s Brigade Panics and flees as an unformed mob up the Eastern Corinth Road! However, reinforcements are on their way and Prentiss orders his two batteries to establish a new defensive position along the Sunken Road.
Above: General Hurlbut, with Lauman’s Brigade and another battery, is alarmed to see the state of Prentiss’ Division, but wastes no time in establishing a new line along the Sunken Road.
Above: Praying that Miller will stop retreating and form up on his right, Williams, with a battery in support, moves his brigade into the Sunken Road at the Peach Orchard.
Above: The situation at the end of Turn 3.
Above: Encouraged by General Withers, Jackson’s Brigade charges across the Locust Grove Run to to take Stuart in the flank! 
Above: Jackson’s flank-attack works far better than Stuart’s own effort! Stuart is Swept From The Field and keeps running until he leaves the table!
Above: Chalmers’ flank-marching Brigade finally arrives at the Larkin Bell Field to find Stuart long-gone. The Rebels become disordered as they set about looting Stuart’s former camp.
Above: With reinforcements pouring in, the Rebels reorganise and strengthen their lines in preparation for the next phase of the assault.
Above: Despite the initial disaster, the Bluebellies already hold the Sunken Road in considerable strength with Williams’, Miller’s and Lauman’s Brigades and four batteries already emplaced. Tuttle’s Brigade is also approaching, together with yet another battery. These new arrivals are mostly Experienced troops, generally outclassing the universally Green Rebel Army. The Union brigades also have a greater proportion of rifled muskets, which they can use to dominate the open ground in front of them.
Above: At the Review Field, forward of the Union right flank, Hare’s Brigade has appeared. This brigade is the left-flanking unit of McClernand’s Division, which is engaged to the west. As such, it can’t move more than 4cm from the table edge and can’t move south of the Review Field, but will prove to be a thorn in the side of the Rebel left flank.
Above: The situation at the end of Turn 4.
Above: Sure enough, as they emerge onto the Purdy-Hamburg Road, Wood’s Rebel Brigade get the worst of a firefight with Hare in the Review Field and falls back to the cover of the woods along the road’s verge.
Above: As Shaver’s Rebel Brigade appears at the edge of the woods along the Hamburg-Purdy Road, they are subjected to Telling long-range rifle-fire from Miller’s Brigade and suffer casualties. Unable to respond with their smoothbore muskets, shaver orders his men to fall back into the trees and to wait for the artillery to come up. In the meantime, Gladden’s battered Rebel Brigade falls back out of the line, allowing Gibson’s fresh brigade to form up in the centre, between Shaver on the left and Jackson on the right. Large quantities of Rebel guns also move forward. The Union artillery attempts to engage them as they unlimber, but to no effect.
Above: Yet more Rebel reinforcements appear; this time from Breckenridge’s Corps.
Above: On the Rebel right, Chalmers has finished looting Stuart’s camp, but it Tardy in moving forward. Stephens’ Brigade (Cheatham’s Division) in the meantime, has also arrived at the Larkin Bell Field and pushes on over the creek, aiming to turn the Union left flank.
Above: However, as the Rebels make a move, the Union immediately make their counter-move; General Wallace arrives at the head of Sweeny’s very strong Brigade.
Above: The situation at the end of Turn 5.
Above: There is something of an ‘operational pause’, as both sides build up their strength and the Rebels ponder the best way to assault this strong position. In the meantime, Prentiss manages to rally the remnants of Peabody’s Brigade before they run to the hills and General Grant arrives, but can’t stay long.
Above: Artillery is the key, but the Rebels’ elderly smoothbore pieces, crewed by Green gunners, are barely making an impression.
Above: Realising that his numerous but weak artillery is not going to break the Union line, Johnston orders General Withers to take Chalmers and Gladden’s Brigades, plus a battery, to reinforce Cheatham’s flanking move on the right.
Above: The situation at the end of Turn 6.
Above: As Johnston shifts forces to the right, the artillery duel continues. At long last, the Union battery supporting Williams, Brigade is silenced by Rebel guns as Williams, outflanked by Chalmers, also suffers casualties. However, Chalmers can’t exploit this with a flank-attack, as he is himself threatened by Sweeny’s Brigade.
Above: The situation at the end of Turn 7.
Above: As Sweeny’s massive Brigade advances to support Williams’ flank, Stephens forms up on Chalmers’ right as Gladden and a battery also rush to the scene, in an attempt to match Sweeny.
Above: However, Sweeny charges Stephens before Gladden is in position. Sweeny suffers Telling Fire, but charges home, Driving Back Stephens.
Above: Stephens’ retreat disorders Gladden. With the Rebel right now in disarray, Sweeny seems unstoppable! However, thanks to the early defeats, total Union losses have been mounting…
Above: With Williams’ disordered and his supporting battery silenced, Jackson takes advantage of the situation and charges through the Peach Orchard!
Above: Jackson suffers Telling Fire during his charge, but charges on into the Sunken Road. Williams meanwhile, suffers Withering Fire from a combination of Jackson, Chalmers and the supporting Rebel guns. 
Above: Despite the heavy losses to enemy fire, Williams is in a strong position and Jackson’s charge bogs down into a Desperate Struggle (draw) and both sides suffer casualties as the combat continues. Eventually Jackson’s Brigade Falters and falls back to the Peach Orchard. 
Above: However, Williams’ Brigade is now Worn and the Union Army as a whole has reached its Greater Losses threshold. The ripples of fear and uncertainty spread through the ranks and the courage of Williams’ men starts to Waver. Abandoning their position in the Sunken Road, Williams’ men fall back out of rifle-range to the Wicker Field. Thankfully, Tuttle is made of sterner stuff and is able to shift his position to the left, reoccupying Williams’ abandoned position at the Peach Orchard. 
Above: In the Union centre, the space created by Tuttle shifting to the left allows the 23rd Missouri Regiment to reinforce Miller’s Brigade in the Sunken Road. The addition of these reinforcements gives Miller’s men fresh heart and raises their status to ‘Fresh’. On the Rebel left, Wood and Statham use the cover of the trees to push forward to the Duncan Field. However, this sector contains the greatest concentration of Union guns. With the battle about to re-intensify, General Grant leaves…
Above: The situation at the end of Turn 8.
Above: Despite their earlier crisis, Gladden and Stephens Rally with Élan and form a new, stronger line in concert with a battery and Chalmers’ Brigade. The contagion of defeat now seems to have spread to Sweeny, as his brigade steadfastly refuses to advance.
Above: In the centre, the thinning of the Union line has not gone unnoticed and Gibson moves forward to support Jackson’s left as Shaver moves forward through the thick brush to engage Miller.
Above: On the left, Wood and Statham launch a general assault on Lauman. The Bluebellies have considerable firepower here, but the Rebel infantry’s sacrifice is allowing their supporting artillery to deploy unmolested along the edge of the Duncan Field.
Above: Somewhat astonishingly, given the quantity of canister fired at them, Wood and Statham each suffer only Galling Fire and charge home on Lauman. However, their attack Falters as it reaches Lauman and both brigades fall back to cover.
Above: At the eastern end of the Sunken road, Jackson’s weakened Brigade, supported by canister fire from Gage’s Battery, charges for a second time and ejects Tuttle from the Sunken Road! With the Rebels now having established a foothold in the Sunken Road, Union morale sinks even further. 
Above: In the centre, Shaver’s Brigade is unable to reach Miller due to the thick underbrush, though a fierce, point-blank firefight erupts, in which a limbered Rebel battery is damaged and Miller’s brigade suffers Withering Fire, which cancels out the morale-gain from the arrival of the 23rd Missouri and also kills Prentiss’ horse! Shaken, Miller withdraws from the Sunken Road. However. at the eastern end of the Sunken Road, Williams has rallied and with close-range artillery support, is moving to eject the weakened Jackson.
Above: The situation at the end of Turn 9.
Above: Shaver’s Brigade occupies the centre of the Sunken Road and quickly deploys a battery to take Williams under point-blank canister fire.
Above: However, Jackson is getting the worst of the firefight with Williams at the ‘Bloody Pond’ (which is where Williams is situated – I don’t have a model pond and in any case, it has no effect in game terms) and is now Spent. Jackson has two batteries in close support, but the terrain (which is wooded on the Union side of the Sunken Road) means that they can’t see any targets. 
Above: At the Duncan Field, the newly-established Rebel batteries are quick to damage and drive off one Union battery at the western end of Lauman’s line. However, the two Union batteries at the eastern end of Lauman’s line similarly damage and drive off a Rebel battery that was deployed to support Statham on the Eastern Corinth Road.
Above: Most critically, Lauman’s Brigade, which has hardly suffered any losses, though Shaken by the defeatism infecting the Union Army, retreats from the Sunken Road. The artillery heroically fights on in the centre and the gap is rapidly filled by Hare’s Brigade, but the writing is on the wall for the Bluebellies…
Above: On the bank of the Tennessee River, Sweeny’s Brigade still refuses to advance. The gunboats USS Tyler and USS Lexington perform harassing fire against Stephens’ Brigade from the river, but to little effect.
Above: The situation at the end of Turn 10.
Above: Shaken by the point-blank canister fire, Jackson is finally forced to pull back from the Sunken Road. However, the position is quickly re-occupied by Gibson’s fresh Confederate brigade. Williams is soon Wavering and falls back to the safety of McArthur’s Brigade at the Wicker Field, taking his supporting battery with him.
Above: Statham tries to push forward against the two batteries, but his attack stalls in the face of Telling Fire from the two Union batteries (including one of heavy artillery) still holding the crossroads.
Above: Hare suffers Withering Fire from Rebel canister-fire, but manages to hold his brigade together as he prays for support to come. But no help is coming…
Above: The situation at the end of Turn 11.
Above: Forrest’s mighty cavalry brigade arrives to save the day! Hurrah!
Above: It’s difficult to know what Forrest can possibly hope to achieve, but the cavalry adds tone to what until now has been a vulgar brawl.
Above: Breckenridge moves forward to Statham’s Brigade. Seeing their corps commander leading from the front, Statham’s men Rally with Élan and surge forward through the brush! The Union artillery again inflicts Telling Fire, but Statham this time charges home, capturing the 5th Ohio Light Battery and driving off the Missouri Heavy Battery! 
Above: The only part of the Sunken Road still in Union hands is the western end, next to the Duncan Field. Wood’s Brigade charges once again, but is checked by Telling Fire from Hare and his supporting battery.
Above: Despite halting Wood’s charge, Hare’s men are Wavering and soon retreat northward, leaving the entire Sunken road in Rebel hands. Only a single Union battery remains on the western side of the Duncan Field, but that is quickly silenced by Rebel musketry.
Above: General Wallace attempts to push McArthur’s uncommitted brigade forward at the Bloody Pond, but to no avail. In any case, it would merely have been reinforcing failure.
Above: A fleeing mass of blue-coated humanity skedaddles northward. The Union Army has suffered catastrophic losses (more than three times the casualties suffered by the Rebs) and is forced to retreat!
Above: As US Naval artillery continues to whistle overhead, Sweeny’s Brigade withdraws in good order as the Rebels jeer them on their way!
Above: The final positions (North/Union at the bottom).
Above: The situation at the end of Turn 12 (end of the game).