Tonight's exciting installment of Die Kaiserlich-königliche Armee in Review features the Hungarian infantry, plus Grenz, Landwehr and Jaegers. Most of the Hungarian infantry figures are again Sash and Sabre Miniatures, with a sprinkling of Old Glory, but the remainder are exclusively OG.
IR 2 (Archduke Ferdinand) Yellow facings
IR 51 (Splenyi) Blue facings
IR 53 (Jelachich) Pink facings
IR 61 (Julien) Green facings
Grenadier Regiment 1 Pink Yellow and Red facings
Grenadier Regiment 2 Green Red and Blue facings
Grenadier Regiment 3 Sky Blue Red and Pink facings
Grenz Regt 6 (Warasdiner St Georger) Red facings
Grenz Regt 7 (Brooker) Pink facings
Grenz Regt 16 (1st Wallachisches) Green facings
The Landwehr regiments are all based on genuine uniform combinations, but I no longer have a record of what they were based on and I can't be bothered trying to find where I got the details .....
.... I recall they were contemporary coloured line drawings, but I don't know where I found them!
I did the Landwehr on 40 x 40 bases (as opposed to 30 x 40 for the others) of three figures, because the OG packs have thirty figures in each, including two groups of command figures!
And finally, two regiments of rifle armed Jaegers
As is my usual practice, these are based in pairs, to indicate they are not regular line infantry
I have often wondered why virtually every other army used the word "hunter" or "huntsman" - chasseur, cacadores, jaeger etc - for their light infantry, whereas the English-speaking nations just call them .... well .... riflemen or light infantrymen?! No sense of drama at all!
Lovely looking army Keith 👍
ReplyDeleteThanks Matt, just artillery and cavalry still to parade!
DeleteSuperb effort getting this great collection together Kieth- well done...certainly suitable for big battles in the future.
ReplyDeleteThanks Kev
DeleteSuperb looking troops
ReplyDeleteCheers Scotty
Delete“No sense of drama” - well no, of course not. Drama is for foreign types!
ReplyDeleteIndeed, JBM, a bit like style and panache! Excitable chaps, those foreigners.....
DeleteMore beautiful troops You can never have too many Austrians... you'll likely need every one you have! :-)
ReplyDeleteAs for light troops, Spanish Cazadores are the same idea, Danes used "jager" as well. Napoleonic French used Legere for light infantry, but chasseur again for the guard units and the center companies of the Legere battalions.
Thanks Ed.....yeah, the French WOULD be difficult/different, wouldn't thet!
DeleteVery nice Keith, How long ago did you say you completed these?
ReplyDeleteThanks Lawrence...my guess would be eight to ten years maybe?
DeleteFantastic looking miniatures!
ReplyDeleteVery kind praise Michal, thank you!
DeleteWhat did someone once say about the Austrian army? They might not have won A war but they never lost A fashion show 😏
ReplyDeleteYour regiments are beautiful!
Haha...thanks Mark, I quite like the look of them, too!
DeleteLoverly troops. Nice to see a collection if Austrian foot units not all in white. The boys just need better rules.
ReplyDeleteThanks Joe, the Landwehr and Grenz units certainly add a nice bit of variety
DeleteFantastic array.
ReplyDeleteThank you Richard!
DeleteFine work once again on these Hungarian Johnnies Keith:).
ReplyDeleteAs for the Jaegers bit; IIRC they were recruited from the Estates hunters, hence why they were called what they were. In Upper Austria you still see shooting platforms in almost every field even to this day. As we'd killed of all of our wild animals by then, we really didn't have hunters per se, as all we could chase were foxes or shoot various game birds etc.
I guess your explanation makes some sense Steve...we Brits have always been ahead of the game ...like you say, last UK wolf was shot in Scotland in 1680....near Killiekrankie according to tradition! And we had got rid of bears etc centuries earlier....
DeleteLovely toys indeed Keith…
ReplyDeleteHow about some white coated Neapolitans to fight them 😁
All the best. Aly
Thanks for the suggestion Aly, but I think I have painted enough white coated figures to last a lifetime!
DeleteGreat looking troops, Keith. I just played a Bavarian vs. Austrian game at a game day using the new Valour and Fortitude rules. My buddy love this period.
ReplyDeleteThanks Dean, apart from WWII, Napoleonic was my first wargaming era, thanks to a music teacher at our high school who had a collection of Hinton Hunt figures. A French Napoleonic army was the first collection I built up as an adult, in New Zealand in the early nineties, using locally produced Front Rank figures. I know have three...French, British and these Austrians!
DeleteThe Austrian army is one of my favorites. Whatever the period! You have a handsome collection.
ReplyDeleteWhy thank you, kind sir! They do look nice, don't they?
DeleteNice to see more of these Austrians! Those Jaegers are my fav's of the lot thus far, I think it's their fancy hats.
ReplyDeleteThanks Dai...so called Corse (Corsican) hats....the Landwehr had a lot if them too! I think I like the Grenz bast, to be honest!
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