Age of Unreason 6

I nearly forgot to add this...

Age of Unreason 5

Ambush on the road to Fromel

French forces advancing from Welle on Fromel are reported as having been attacked by local militia. The current situation is unclear but the Representative en Mission Laine has decreed that the canaille must be stopped before they can cause mischief to the peoples cause.

More details over on the Frundsberg blog

Part three of the Spencer Smith collection

Here we go again....

Pjotr
http://nyudrevchronicles.blogspot.com/

Spencer Smith units part two

more pictures of Spencer Smith miniatures are here in the Chronicles.

Pjotr

(OT) Tutorial on Adding a Background Photo

After reading Stokes' comments on how easy it was to add a backgound photo to a blog, I did so for mine.  I have since added a tutorial on how to do it (and it is very easy).

If interested, go to Saxe-Bearstein and learn how.

-- Jeff

It's War.....again. The age old temper tantrum continues. See the posts for the Battle of Latoilette and some thoughts on the game at http://kingdomofstmaurice.blogspot.com/

Spencer Smith pictures

Gentlemen,

I've started parading the Spencer Smith regiments for your (p)leasure.

Pjotr
The Nyudrev Chronicles

Itzenplitz Pix

IR13 Itzenplitz regiment - first battalion, with two Minden 3-pound artillery in support. The gun models are from RSM95. Flags are from GMB Designs.

I was going to post some of these pictures last night, but my camera battery died and needed to be recharged. This is the first battalion of the Itzenplitz Regiment, numbered IR13 in the Prussian establishment. This was a Brandenbourg regiment and Frederick the Great rated it as one of the best regiments in the army. During the Seven Years War, the regiment was usually a part of "the King's Army" and thus fought at Lobositz, Prague (it missed Kolin), Rossbach, Leuthen (where it distinguished itself as part of the spear-point of the attack as part of Wedell's advance guard), Hochirch , Kunersdorf, Liegnitz, Torgau and Burkersdorf.


Minden's new casualty figures are shown in front of IR13. Please leave a comment in the Comment section at the end of this entry and let me know which wooden stand looks best for the casualty figures: (1) large rectangle, (2) small circle, or (3) narrow rectangle. I am trying to decide which size stand to use with this collection. Each time a stand is removed from the game, due to casualties, I will place a casualty stand on the table.

Christopher Duffy states that it was a tightly run regiment, known as the "Donner und Blitzen" regiment under the regime of Major General August Friedrich von Itzenplitz, who was mortally wounded at Kunersdorf. In 1768 it was given the unique privilege of being rated immediately below the Garde and number one among the senior regiments of the army, regardless of the seniority of its chef.

Tsar Peter III was briefly made the regiment's honorary inhaber in 1762, until his demise in a palace coup orchestrated by his wife, the future Catherine the Great of Russia. The regiment's station was in Berlin. It wore a blue uniform with white facings (cuffs and lapels and collar). Duffy gives the regiment straw colored waistcoat and breeches, but Bleckwenn and Dorn & Englemann depict the regiment wearing white breeches and waistcoat. I have chosen to use all white in my version of the regiment. In my mind, Hans Bleckwenn trumps all other sources.

3-Pound Battalion Guns


3-pound battalion guns and crew

I plan to have one battalion gun with each regiment of two battalions in my Minden army. The artillery crew men are Minden Prussians and the 3-pounder is from RSM. RSM sells them as 3-pounders, but in fact they are really 20mm French Napoleonic 12-pounders. You can tell by the extra notch in the trail, which was used to reposition the gun tube when the cannon was travelling attached to the limber. The stand is the same size as my infantry battalions: 40mm wide by 60mm deep. The infantry stands are turned with the long 60mm edge facing front and thus having a 40mm depth when used for infantry. I also have a stand that is 40mm wide by 80mm deep that I will probably use for limber teams. There seems to be a certain consistency using the 40mm measurement that sort of ties everything together quite nicely.

Casualty Stands
One of the pictures above features three of the new Minden generic casualty figures on three different stands: rectangle- large, circle, or small and thin rectangle. I cannot set up a poll in this blog, so please kindly click on the comments box below and cast your vote or opinion as to which size stand you think looks best for the casualty figures. I will eventually terrain and grass these bases, but for now I wanted viewers to see the choices before I made a decision.

OOPS! I inadvertantly posted this on EvE blog instead of my own blog. I will leave this version up for a couple of days and then edit it down to one or two pictures and leave the comments attached. You can also find a version of this posting on my Der Alte Fritz blog.

Spencer Smith

Gentlemen,

I've got some pictures up of Spencer Smith miniatures, which some of you have already seen. And more are forthcoming.

Happy gaming
Pjotr
http://nyudrevchronicles.blogspot.com/

Age of Unreason

It has been suggested I repost these on EvE, although I was kinda hoping maybe viewers would take a little diversion onto Archdukepiccolo.blogspot.com... :)
The label is: Wholly Romantic Empire - Age of Unreason.
But here are the first 3 strips, in order:




This is, of course, intended to be an occasional strip, as ideas occur to me...

Age of Unreason

A strip off the old blog...

Having begun an occasional strip based in my 18th Century Wholly Romantic Empire, I thought (at Bluebear's suggestion) that I might post some now and then where they might find a wider readership...

Greetings...

Happy Easter from The Duchy of Tradgardland!

General von Radstadt's Victory!

News of a victory for the Konigreich der Bleiherzen and its newest hero General Eric von Radstadt! See the battle report at Lead Gardens.