Essex Boy wrote: ↑Thu Nov 23, 2023 12:59 pm
Ah, back to the classic SSMs. Very nice.
Indeed - always nice to see! Spiffing, in fact.
On a technical point, were there any obvious (at this scale/size, anyway) uniform differences between 1st and 2nd Battalion personnel?
I have no idea but as I paint up two 28 man battalions of several regiments I do this so I can combine them into a 56/54 man regiments for
big battalion game. So I want the uniforms to be the same.
For most regiments I don't think there was any differences in uniforms between battalions; the main difference in the Prussian army was the flag carried. The Garde were different in that the third battalion were Grenadiers.
Neil
Thanks for all the answers. I had those wonderful little Garrison & Ball SYW booklets (#1 Prussia, #2 Austria-Hungary) - may still have them somewhere - but could not for the life of me recall anything on battalion distinctions. I suspect Spanner has come closest with the sword knot thing - which continued at least into WW1, if I recall correctly. I also suspect that, rather like the British Foot Guards of this era, battalion numbers were assigned almost randomly, and it was the company "owners" who determined the composition of those battalions (and thus made them more fluid - at least in British service).
A propos Willz's comment about combining units for "big battles", one of the few redeeming features of the French Napoleonic line infantry uniform was that you could merge all of your wargame-sized units into a "monster" battalion, just to see what it looked like (this was back in my Airfix days, long before the Chef de Bataillon rules had been written!).
Kein Plan überlebt den ersten Kontakt mit den Würfeln. (No plan survives the first contact with the dice.) Baron Mannshed von Wreckedoften, First Sea Lord of the Bavarian Admiralty.
Nah been building Louisbourg fortifications this week.