Small update on unit organization and French Old Guard Grenadiers

As I said in my recent post, most of my recent activity in this endeavor has been to clean up some units; this includes revising some battalion compositions to get where I want them (including buying some figures to do so), cleaning up figures bases so they stand better (in my earlier zeal to get figures off their sprus and assembled My original knife work was a little sloppy) and also taking general inventory of all figure poses so I can consider further optimization or revisions.

Part of this was brought about by rethinking the base formations I want each battalion to potentially be staged in.  Basically I want the unit composition to facilitate at least a few potential formations; for example, firing battalions need to have poses to both form a firing line, and a column formation.  A Firing line would be 2 (or in rare cases 3) ranks deep, while a column would be between 12 to 15 troops wide.

Today I finished revision my 2 battalions of French Old Guard Grenadiers, for which I am using Timpo French Grenadiers.  

While some view these figures as outdated and point out their limited level of detail, particularly on the rather simply done musket, I like them for their perfect 1/32 scale, great French blue color and tall thick proud bearskins.

I had a fairly good stash of these collected over the years (including about 50 I’ve painted), but just recently bought a few more sets off EBay to finally get my battalions composition where I want it.  Those troops arrived today.

Each battalion has leadership staff of 1 officer, 1 NCO & 2  drummers.

1st battalion: firing line with standing firing poses, backed by marching, with a few ready with bayonet poses to round out the formation. (52 men including command)

2nd battalion: advancing/ready column with advancing & marching poses (52 men including command)

Unfortunately I didn’t think to take pictures when I was reorganizing the figures earlier, but I will post pic ASAP.

Cheers

Sorry for limited activity & pics of Saxon regiment von Low

 Sorry for not posting much lately; I’ve been busy with work, family and at least a little bit of getting back to normal life post -Covid.  

That doesn’t mean I’ve not wen working on my armies; just that it has been less interesting work.  Like cleaning up the composition and the bases of some units; including all my French light infantry and old guard battalions, as well as my Saxon battalions (line, gren, guard & Schutzen).  Not very exciting to do, let alone write/read about.

Here are some pics of the cleaned up regiment von Low, which after Bernadotte combined its original 2 battalions into one rather large battalion, and siphoned off some of its troops for the 2 Schutzen battalions had a total of 837 men at Wagram.