Napoleonic Austrians, logistics and the Reality of Waging War in Miniature

 

EDIT: These have all been put up FOR SALE click here for details

Whilst searching though my boxes I came across some primed up Napoleonic Austrian "German" Infantry in 20mm from Newline Designs. I quite fancied a change of era so painted up another unit and based up the Grenzers. Then with the fleece mat and camera phone I wanted some better pictures for my Austrians as a whole. 

The older German Infantry have a more grubby look in compared to the newest finished unit, who look decidedly fresh and crisp. One veteran and one conscript unit I thought, being some of the choices for  the Austrians under Sam Mustafa's Blucher rules, that being the potential ruleset for the project. Also involved where some Styrian Landwehr, I always loved the look of this militia in their oberocks and floppy hats! It was great seeing the army so far. 

However there are still loads to get through for the Austrians and then there are their opponents to do! I am struggling to get regular battles set up for my main ancients project so what chance does my Napoleonics project (and the myriad of others) have? The logistics of the whole thing was quite overwhelming, it was time to accept reality. Aside from painting the odd unit I fancy, I realistically will not manage to use these miniatures in a wargame, so why keep them? 

I'm still thinking on this, I don't like parting with miniatures but they won't get used here so watch this space if you are inclined to procure painted miniatures.

Styrian Lanwehr

Veteran Infantry

Grenzers

Conscipts

Triarii Rebased

The Triarii are rebased finally, it was a straight up removal and remount for the most part. Both the Newline Designs 20mm Triarii units, standing and kneeling were broken down into average 12 man bases and veteran 6 man bases (see previous posts for further explanation). The average 12 man units were done very quickly but the veteran bases needed a few new figures, which took the form of extra command figures, including a standard bearer given a spear to make him a rank and filer. 

Lots of photos again, the batches were photographed at different times and was initially going to be 2 posts but again blogging has been sidelined unfortunately. When I get a chance I have Napoleonic Austrians, newly finished and a unit based up along with older units just photographed with the new camera and battle mat. Also the Heroquest quest needs a post too which will probably be the next one. Currently painting some scythed chariots (3) I kept putting them off as I'm not a massive fan of painting horses or vehicles, so far proving to be tricky! I think after I clear them I will look at rebasing the light infantry for the  Punic wars, they will need a few additional figures so I will prepare some along with Gauls which are next on the list for new units and rebasing.

Average Legionary Bases

Veteran Legionary Bases