Since my Maurice opponent chickened out yet again (I mean, really, how transparent an excuse is “my family are sick and I need to tend to them” eh? He might as well just have admitted that his boots are covered with the brown stuff at the thought of taking on my mighty Marlenedietrichsteiners.), I’m going to do a quick show and tell about the rest of my regular infantry and my artillery. The next time I do one of these, it’ll be for my regular cavalry (Kurassiers, Dragoons and Cheveaulegers), and after that, my irregulars (Grenzer and Hussars) and my command stands. Here, however, are my regular Hungarian infantry, who I usually use as conscripts.
Hungarian Infantry
I only have two units of Hungarian infantry, though if I ever need to expand this army, I’ll get more. They’re made up, not surprisingly, of IR 19 and IR 39, the same units have provided their grenadiers for my Hungarian Grenadier units. That’s IR 19 on the left, IR 39 on the right.
Here’s IR 19 a little more closer up:
IR 19 Leopold Palffy
IR 19 Leopold Palffy are the older of the two Palffy regiments, founded in 1734. They wear the dolman and sky blue trousers common to Hungarian units, with this particular regiment also wearing sky blue dolman to match their trousers. They carry the old green Regimentsfahne of the 1743 pattern rather than the newer yellow one of 1745, and the first battalion again carries the white Leibfahne.
The other unit is IR 39 Johann Palffy:
IR 39 Johann Palffy
These are the younger Palffy regiment, raised in 1756, though they again carry the older Regimentsfahne rather than the newer one. They are often referred to as von Preysach after their chef de regiment of 1758 till 1760. They weren’t actually designated as IR39 until 1769. They wear red trousers and dolman, edged in yellow.
Finally, we have the artillery which in Maurice terms is 4 batteries of artillery.
Artillery battery
There are again two batteries per base, and I usually field only 2 batteries rather than all four. I could have used the smaller bases for these, but I like the diorama effect of having the limbers at the back. The artillerymen wear the deer brown uniform that really blends into the mud and dark grass bases. There are four men to each gun – see if you can spot them all. It certainly makes a change, having camouflaged artillerymen compared to the glaring white and other bright colours of the infantry. These don’t represent any particular artillery batteries – there’s not a great deal of info on them out there that I’ve found after a cursory search, but von Loudon’s corps did have about 50 field guns, of 3, 6 and 12 lbers. The Baccus guns are meant to represent field guns quite broadly rather than specific cannon, so these will do for 6 to 12 lb guns.
In other news, I’ve gotten my Zouaves just about painted up for Longstreet now, they’re just awaiting varnish and basing, so I might do that this weekend if I get a chance. Anthony has already made his excuses for not facing me next week, so to break up the Maurice 6mm posts, I may do a post on the 10mm Zouaves next week instead. After that, it’s either more Maurice show and tell or I’ll finally be able to write up my undoubtedly complete victory over Anthony’s horsies. Defeat is not an option!
