vrijdag 10 mei 2013

Hanoverian Infantry at Hastenbeck


The Hanoverian infantry have been painted to conform with their new regimental details. All units wore straw coloured breeches, so that was my first task; the change from red to straw colour.

Some changes proved less a problem as these corresponded with the British units from which they came from. The majority of my British troops wore either yellow, buff or green facings which were similar to Hanoverian requirements.

There were a few oddities that certainly would compete with a Harlequin dress at an Italian carnival festival, but luckily these were few.

Lastly, like their British counterpart, Hannover also converged their grenadiers into temporary battalions. Hannover fielded three such units and these need to be ordered on Blue Moon (Old Glory UK) in a week or two.

Of the seven brigades listed below some show only two battalions of Hanoverian. These do not reflect the entire brigade strength as they list troops from Hesse-Kassel or Brunswick.

Photo one

von Block Brigade                                       
Druchtleben (1 bn), Knesebeck (1 bn), Scheither (1 bn),  Buckeburg  (1 bn),  Sachsen-Gotha  (1 bn), Stolzenberg  (1 bn), Post  (1 bn)                 
von Sporcken Brigade                    
Jung-Zastrow (1 bn), Diepenbroick (1 bn)                         
von Kielmansegg Brigade   
Kielmannsegg (1 bn), Oberg  (1 bn), Garde (2 bns)      


Photo two
                                                     
von Hodenberg Brigade                 
Wagenheim(1 bn), Hodenberg (1 bn)                                             
Detachment around the Afferde Watchtower under von Ledebur
Ledebour (1 bn), Fabrice (1 bn)                                          
Detachment on the Schecken Height                      
between Afferde and Diedersen under Breidenbach
Sporken (1 bn), von Hardenberg (1 bn), Zandre de Caraffa (1 bn)                                 
Detachments near Hameln  
Kommandierte Infanterie (2,000 men) converged from various regiments,
1st Garrison Battalion (1 bn)
Brigade von Behr                                        
Hanoverian Brunck(1 bn), Hanoverian Block(1 bn)



To be ordered:
von Hardenberg Brigade of converged grenadiers
Hanoverian Grenadiers (2 bns)
von Schulenburg Brigade                                       
Hanoverian Grenadiers (1 bn)

Flags
I add four or five regimental flags to the Hanoverians and two colonel colours for the Hanoverian Generals Zastrow and Kielmansegg. The flag here is of a colonel’s flag for Hanover. (Kronoskaf.com/Hannover)


Cheers, 

4 opmerkingen:

fireymonkeyboy zei

Which Blue Moon range are you using?

FMB

Timurilank zei

FMB,

I am using figures from the Blue Moon French and Indian War list:

http://www.oldgloryuk.com/disp_items.php?m=50&s=191

Grenadiers are perfect as are the Generals. The British line skirmishing will serve for the Légion Britannique of Hannover and the civilians for a general rural setting.

Cheers,

fireymonkeyboy zei


I've used some of their stuff for FIW, and had wondered about using them for Europe. The limited French range had me wondering, though. No cavalry, for starters.

FMB

Timurilank zei

FMB,

Using the standard Old Glory 15 range of SYW French and Austrians should not be a problem.

There are a number of blogs that have scale comparison with these two shown as having similar height.

I mention the Austrians as their cavalry look well as French.

Cheers,