Leipzig Refight 28mm, Sitrep 4pm

10am to 4pm today, here's an overview of how things progressed over 10 turns. Finishing tomorrow morning and will update with results :)

Leipzig Refight 28mm Deployment

A refight of Leipzig in 1/100th Scale this weekend :) 

Just finished setting it all up except for Bluchers Prussian's which the player is still frantically painting so they can get to the battle on time.

Here's a video of the deployments.

Here's the map. A bit abstracted of course as all wargames have to be in some ways, but done to ensure key features of battle can be represented hopefully! 

Saxon Chevauleger & Uhlans - Black Hussar 28mm

Saxon Light Cavalry, the Von Polenz Chevauleger, and Prinz Clemens Uhlans.  The Chevaulegers I posted a couple of years back, but the Uhlans are newly painted, so thought I'd take the oportunity to post both these units together. These are all from Black Hussar Miniatures.

Von Polenz Chevaulegers.

Prinz Clemenz Uhlans. Newly painted, with North Star metal lances and penants from Adolfo Ramos, except I had to repaint top half to the green from blue as this more obscure combo wasn't one he made at time of purchase.  Wasn't too sure of the green here but most notes I've seen have it fairly light in shade and this looks good so that's what I went with :)

These models are in campaign dress with Shako's covered, though fortunately the rest of the uniform makes up for that in terms of colour. Full dress has plumes etc as you'd expect. 

Tirailleurs Corses and du Po

Two Light Infantry units, Tirailleurs Corses (Corsican from Napoleon's home island of Corsica) and du Po (Piedmontese). These units were often brigaded together and earned a reputation as veteran troops.

I made these from extra elite company figures in the Perry set, together with a Victrix Officer and Drummer in each. The figures are not quite right, e.g. Corses apparently had their ammo pouch on the front rather than the rear - but close enough for my purposes. I've also used a few less figures and more active poses than in most units, which suits the fact that they will often be deployed in open order as befits their light infantry role.

Tirailleurs Corses.

Tirailleurs du Po.

One example of the various and diverse examples you can find on uniforms of these units! Both would be wearing Shakos in later periods, and the Corses likely had blue rather than brown uniforms for at least some of their history. However, the brown is one of the few uniforms of that colour and wargaming tradition for the Corses by now, so I wanted to paint them up in that colour :)

UPDATE 10.03.2024. Dave W on The Wargaming Forum has pointed out this interesting piece of history, indicating it's likely the Corses actually wore blue with green facings, specifically: "...brown uniforms are from the Army of Italy units of Corsican Legions, formed of National Guards taken to the mainland. There were 5 and all had different facing colours. The Tir.Corse, like du Po, were always dressed in French legere blue, but with the ‘green’ facings given from origin (1802) according to d’Ornanos request. The Tir. du Po wore chapeau at inception and did so thru 1808 at least."  

See this source as one account with some more details. Article in French but you can tight click and select translate to English in Chrome. More links to sources in this thread.

I also have a large and growing backlog of newly painted units I must add to this blog (twenty nine of them at current count!), so will try to add at least some of these in near future. :)