Seven Years War
Austrians and their Allies
One of my hobbies is wargaming. Though I seem to collect figures more than actually game. Currently I'm working on a collection from the Seven Years War (1756-1763), to use with Charles Grant's rules. Things are slowly coming together and below are a few shots of what I have to date. I'm using figures for the year 1757. The figures are all 18mm Eureka. Due to time restrictions, I paid to have most of these figures painted.
The Prussians and Allies are HERE.
Units are chosen simply by the colours of their facings or on the basis of their flags. I'm making no attempt to build a historical order of battle and, as with the assignment of grenadier companies to their battalions and their carrying colours, will bend the "historical rules" for my own purposes. Further additions will include troops from Wuerttemberg and France as well as Russian cavalry and artillery. I'll also add two more Austrian battalions (still to decide which units) and another regiment each of the diffrerent cavalry types.
The Salm-Batthanyi Grenadier battalion and 1/ Lacy Infantry Regiment. I know that the grenadiers didn't carry colours. Mine do. Eventually the grenadiers will be brigaded with another Grenadier battalion and the 1/ Lacy with a battalion from another regiment. (Painted by Reinforcements By Post [RBP])
The 1/ Los Rios Infantry Regiment and 1/ Haller Infantry Regiment. (Painted by me)
The Russian 1/Riazanskiy and 1/Rostovskiy Infantry Regiments in winter dress. (Painted by Phil Barlow)
1/Permskiy (I prefer the flag to St. Petersbourgskiy) and 1/Novgorodskiy Infantry Regiments in summer campaign dress. (Painted by me)
1/ Morawitsky and 1/ Prinz Clemens Bavarian Infantry Regiments. The flags don't like the camera flash- they look much better in the flesh. (Painted by RBP)
Oguliner (left) and Liccaner (right) Croats. (Painted by RBP)
Kuerassiere Regiment Alt Modena. Eventually they'll be brigaded with Kuerassiere Regiment O'Donnell. Painted by a commercial painter I no longer will use.
Dragoon Regiment Saxe-Gotha. Eventually they'll be brigaded with Dragoon Regiment de Ligne. Painted by a commercial painter I no longer will use.
Hussar Regiment Kalnocky. They'll be brigaded with another hussar regiment, I just have to choose which one. (Painted by RBP)
Austrian artillery. I still have to do the limbers. (Painted by RBP and me)