I was supposed to be playing Maurice last night at the club, facing Anthony’s elite cavalry horde for our Maurice campaign, but the weather put paid to that, reaching -30 C with wind chill factored in. Instead I worked on some of my Zouaves for Longstreet, which are now almost done and should be the theme of another blog entry in the not too distant future. So, because I don’t have a batrep to offer you, I thought I’d do another look at some of my 6mm Maurice Marlenedietrichsteiners, this time the German Infantry.
Here are all four regiments together:
German Infantry
The front left is IR 13, front right IR 23, back left IR 4 and back right IR 55. The astute of you will have noticed that these match up with the four stands of Converged German Grenadiers I dealt with last time – these are the units whose grenadiers made up the two converged grenadier units I have.
Here’s the first unit, IR 13, Moltke. They wear violet lapels from the old uniform of 1757 – the regiment was outfitted with new uniforms in 1762 with azure blue lapels, but when I started painting these figures up, it was with Might and Reason in mind rather than Maurice, and so I based them on von Loudon’s corps that fought at Hochgiersdorf in 1760.
IR 13 Moltke
The battalion on the right is the first battalion, which carries the Colonel’s flag, the Leibfahne, while the second battalion on the left carries the yellow Regimentsfahne.
The next unit is IR 23 Baden Baden, boasting dark blue lapels.
IR 23 Baden Baden
These are an old unit, formed in 1683 to fight the Turks, and with a long history of conflict in pretty much every war the Austrians fought in between then and the Seven Years War. They too formed part of von Loudon’s corps at Hochgiersdorf. I have put the grenadiers from IR 13 and IR 23 together to form one of my two converged grenadier units.
The third unit is IR 4 Deutschmeister, with lighter blue lapels.
IR 4 Deutschmeister
This unit had an interesting birth, being formed from remnants of the Teutonic Order in 1695, their colonel being the reigning grandmaster of the Teutonic Order.
Finally, the last of my German Infantry units is IR 55 D’Arberg, bearing red lapels.
IR 55 D’Arberg
It’s a little bit of a cheat to call them German infantry, since they were actually a Netherlandish regiment, but the Austrian classification system ranked regiments as either Hungarian or German, with “German” regiments coming from all parts of Austria itself as well as the Austrian-controlled Netherlands, parts of Germany and Italy, Moravia and Bohemia. All these “German” regiments were kitted out in the same uniform of white trousers and jackets as seen here. The grenadiers of IR 4 and IR 55 together make up the second of my converged German grenadier units.
Next week I should get my game in against Anthony, so you’ll undoubtedly be hearing of how I easily smashed his pitiful army, butchering his cavalry by the thousand. We shall dine on horseflesh for weeks!
