Forgotten Armies # 7

   Hussar Regiment No.?

This is truly a forgotten army, only remembered when I did my Storage post last week
It's strange (to me at least) that I'd forgotten about it as it was one of my armies that I've used a lot in the past.
In case you don't recognise the 6mm Irregular Hussars, they're from my Prussian Army  of the mid to late 19th Century, but specifically made for the Franco Prussian War.

Prussian Battalion

This was originally a collaboration between myself and #1 son, I would be doing the Prussians whilst he would paint the French. The rules used were the very fine set "Principles of War" and their Army lists were designed around Division size.

The Jager add a bit of colour (sort of)

Prussian organisation was three battalions to the regiment, two regiments to the Brigade and two Brigades to the Division  with the addition of a single Cavalry Regiment, a battalion of Jager and artillery.

Light artillery left and Heavy right (yep I can't tell the difference either)

With 24 figures to a base, two bases to the battalion that's about 300 figures to the division !
Two divisions make up a corps and I have two corps !
At corp level there are two Brigades of cavalry and yet more additional artillery.

One Division

Kurassier Regiment

Uhlans

Corps cavalry with their Horse artillery

Corp artillery (two heavy and 1 light)

The Division

The Division plus the Corp Cavalry and Artillery.

 We played a few small games to learn the rules and is all cumulated with a large game involving 5 Prussian Corps (iirc) and three French Corps (French Corps were substantially larger than Prussian ones). It was played on a 24 foot x 6 foot table using two foot square  terrain boards, allowing for rolling terrain - as the battle moved forward, so did the terrain (and occasionally the tables too!).

The commanders L to R: Brigade, Division, Corps and Army

Army Command

As far as I know, no photographs of this epic battle survive - it was well before the era of digital cameras! 

I really enjoyed this period and I reckon the eight or so players that participated in this project did too.

That's it then for this week, needless to say another in which I did nothing hobby related save for catching up on blogs !

Thanks for taking the time to visit and I hope there is something here you've found interested in; your comments, of course, are always welcomed and appreciated.