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grizzlymc wrote: ↑Tue Nov 10, 2020 12:32 am There is something new I have learned. Never knew the cavalry had converged grenadiers.

Silly idea.

Yup. The Dragoon regiments' Horse Grenadier companies even had bearskins to boot. The Cuirassier regiments' Carabinier companies had no obvious distinction, other than the fact they carried carbines, while most other cuirassiers of the time only had pistols (iirc 12 men per 'regular' company had carbines). Sometime after the SYW they combined all the Horse Grenadiers and Carabiniers together into a couple of permanent regiments.

As it happens, the old 30-per-pack Old Glory Austrian Dragoon packs were over-populated with Horse Grenadiers, with about six of them per pack. I bought a load of packs to make Saxon Chevauxlegers and Reichsarmee Dragoons, but they didn't have Horse Grenadiers, so had a shit-ton of bearskinned cavalry figures left over. However, Wurttemberg had a complete Horse Grenadier regiment (red coats with black facings - very nice), so they will come in handy after all.

This all reminds me of the first Ayton battle. Henry had so many grenadiers in his Spencer Smiths that we were fielding militia in mitres. We rationalized this by deciding that Granprix's wealth had allowed it to splurge on fancy uniforms.

Buff Orpington wrote: ↑Tue Nov 10, 2020 8:00 am This all reminds me of the first Ayton battle. Henry had so many grenadiers in his Spencer Smiths that we were fielding militia in mitres. We rationalized this by deciding that Granprix's wealth had allowed it to splurge on fancy uniforms.

There was precedent: Wurttemberg's army seems to have increased its grenadier ratio in an inverse ratio to its fighting ability. Russia meanwhile, by 1800 had about half the army dressed as grenadiers...

When half the army is elite, no one is elite.

grizzlymc wrote: ↑Tue Nov 10, 2020 10:59 am When half the army is elite, no one is elite.

Indeed.

15 mm ACW Confederate generals mid-basing.

Germanic hordes for infamy. Tanks for CoC and a metric shit tonne of Jacobites. New Flags of War Kickstarter on the 16th November.

I want me some artillery and some Bagot's Hussars. Although it is tempting to have some French bodyguard cavalry to give the Hanoverian dragoons a fright..

Shahbahraz wrote: ↑Tue Nov 10, 2020 4:43 pm Although it is tempting to have some French bodyguard cavalry to give the Hanoverian dragoons a fright..

Given the number of French monarchs the French bodyguard has put paid to (without even trying, apparently), I suspect that the Hanoverians might not be too worried.....

Yeah, they went down hill when the dropped the Scots archers.

Thanks for your help Mark-looks like you know as much about SYW as you do Napoleonics and WWII and that’s impressive