Here's the plan. Using RSM figures, I want to build the entire army of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, usually known to English readers simply as "Brunswick."
I intend to use RSM SYW Prussian figures from Dayton Painting Consortium.
I want the figures to be dual-use: 24 figure battalions for our club SYW rules, and 60-figure "Big Battalion" rules a la Charge! and The Wargame, or the soon-to-be available rules from Bill Protz, Batailles de l'Ancien Régime 1740-1763, or BAR for short. I will use two battalions of our rules to form a single unit in BAR.
Here's the proposed structure:
Type | | | Hesse-Fedora name | | Figures | |
Infantry | | | | | | |
| IR Leib (2 bn) | | Leib (Bogey’s Own) | | 60 | |
| IR von Imhoff (2 bn) | | von Blaine | | 60 | |
| IR von Behr (2 bn) | | von Spade | | 60 | |
| IR von Zastrow (2 bn) | | von Earle | | 60 | |
| GB von Stammer (Leib/Imhoff) | | von Dobbs | | 48 | |
| GB von Redecken (Behr/Zastrow) | | von Parry | | 48 | |
| Jagerkorps (3 “brigades” of 85 jagers each) | | ?? | | 24 | |
| | | | | | |
Cavalry | | | | | | |
| Garde du Corps (1 company) | | Les Noirs | | 12 | |
| Karabiniers | | von Marlowe, Der Grossschlafen | | 24 | |
| Dragoons | | von Gunn | | 24 | |
| Hussars | | von Steele | | 24 | |
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Artillery | | | | | | |
| 2 light companies (1 gun/reg) | | von Leland, von McCloud | | 4 guns, 12 figures | |
Note this is draft, especially since I have not seen BAR yet!
My main source is R. D. Pengel 's German States in the Seven Years War 1740-1762: Supplement: Brunswick-Luneberg (Hanover), Hessen Cassel, Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, Schaumberg-Lippe. This lists several other infantry formations, including a Leib-Grenadier-Garde, which I have not found elsewhere. Does anyone know if these are really different units, or just renamed previously existing ones? I know the book by Bill Biles considers at least some them to be renamed.
Either way, this is a serious amount of lead and will take a while to accumulate.
In the meantime, here's a pic of my armies in action at a club night.
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