Hessian headgear, a question.

[Buff Redux]

I'm going to do a Hessian brigade for Ayton. As the Warlord box includes headgear for musketeers, fusiliers and grenadiers it would be churlish not to do a unit of each.

Did the officers of fusiliers and grenadiers wear tricorns or mitres?

[Willz the Wargamer]

As I understand it Buff officers wore Tircornes.
The chap on this blog is painting Hessian's
https://nigbilpainter.blogspot.com/201 ... ntawi.html



Willz.

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

Yep, grenadier and fusilier officers wore tricornes. Historically, it was rare for all three types to appear in the same brigade, other than by units accumulating in a garrison somewhere. However, you could get away with it if you make the "grenadiers" the Land Miliz Regiment Rall, in which all companies wore the grenadier mitre; the regiment had no lapels.

[Buff Redux]

As it's for Ayton and will fight anything up to and including elephants I won't sweat on the odd anomaly but I wanted to get the hats right.

[Essex Boy]

Not elephants, or camels.

[Count Belisarius]

What about pigs?

[FreddBloggs]

Is this a definitive NO ELEPHANTS?

[Essex Boy]

Is this a definitive NO ELEPHANTS?

PM sent, Fred.

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

What about pigs?

You mean schwein, surely?

[Buff Redux]

I am totally ok with facing pigs, aflame or otherwise. We shall simply treat them as a delivery of bratwurst.