wurttemberg and french

So I've continued my work on the french, with sutch big units, it does take some time to do each of them.

I did a french one and a Wurttemberg one, the french had some 70 figures while the wurttemberg had some 83.

One of the cool things of doing these bases is you can do lots of diffrent formations, and even breakdown of them, like the french I did, I did them like they had started to get castualties from artillery, and the ranks started to drift apart.

As you see the ranks are separate, mabye it was artillery fire or the terrain. And I did some skirmishes to.

And here is the Wurttemberg, I did them in a sort of standard formation, that most of my bases will have, namely two lines of 3 ranks, representing 2 battalions. one here is marching one is advancing/chargeing

So far the project numbers about 500+ figures

Also rumaging in my vast vast stockpile of 6mm, sevral thousand Baccus, adler and irregular spread all around my tiny apartment, and I found a corps worth of Poles, even artillery, I had totaly forgotten about them, they had hidden them self in my closet, preying on my poor russians, man do they hate russians.

Re Activation of Alder Borodino project

So I had a bunch of 6mm laying around, they were really for something other, but I decided to restart my alder borodino project, it's really my only grand tactical project and it's diffrent from all the other projects which are tactical.

Finished a nice base of Legere, this is from first corps first division first brigade, a 5 regiment brigade all from the same regiment the 13th legere, this is like the 12th time I've painted this regiment.

Since the bases are so big, you have to not think of them as bases but part of the table, So I planted a tree on the base, to give cover to the skirmishes.


I deployed the enitre Vuligture company as skirmishes, I did toy with the idea of having the whole unit in skirmish order, but it was just to much, the main body of the unit is in 3 deep line, and even in 6mm, 3 deep is VERY deep. looking like a block more then line. but it does give the MASSED feel. I do agree with some that say this is the best use of 6mm. I did try and do 1:20 scale 6mm thing for Republic to empire and it just didn't look ok, 24 figure battalions in 4 small bases, the figures get damaged, the bases tip over ect. 6mm need a big base, ofcourse you don't need a 3" square, I found that the 20x40mm bases I use for my lasalle 6mm with baccus works well to, but I don't feel any smaller bases work, the figures just loose it's effect.

So just what is my goal, I can't actualy play borodino, my table is way to small, I would need a 12x6 table. So my goal is a couple of corps on each side. Davouts corps was a small army, 5 divisions some 40 000 soldiers, add Ney's 3rd corps and par of the cav corps and you got a good 20-25 bases, I then want to do part of 1st western army under Barclay de Tolly, And ofcourse once you've made a base it can be anything, a french base is a french base, only swap the labels and you can do any battle from 1809-1814.

But just how many is 20-40 bases, well it's lets say avrage 80 figures for an infantry base, my legere only did about 60, but thats becasue half the base was taken up by just 10 skirmishes.

And 25-30 cav, thats atleast 4000 figures for both sides, thats alot, not as much as the 9000 the whole of borodino would take. 4000 is well it's 8 weeks of painting if I could have kept the same pace as I did with my British lasalle. But I'm not that mad, well I am that mad but not that kind of mad, ok I am that kind of mad, but I don't have 4000 figures, I got mabye enough infantry to do 2-3 more french bases, and 1 more russian.

And here are random photos of what I've got so far

WIP french 6mm legere

I have finished this regiment/brigade, quite frankly I can't remember if it's a full brigade as in single regiment brigade or if it's part of the brigade, I can't remember which OBB I used when I orderd the figures, I have to paint up all my french units before I know.

It was fun to paint these, after the cool but drab Landwehr, these are more colorfull, red grenadiers trimmings, yellow and red vulgtires ect. the blue got as mentioned in the last post marnie highlights.

First brigade in RtE project done

Well not brigade, but regiment, but in the RtE it will be treated as a brigade.
3 Landwehr battalions and a "regimental/brigade" general

I was planing on doing 3 24 figure battalions, but I had orderd more figures then I had thought so it ended up as 2 32 figure battalions and 1 24.

It's fun this brigade takes the same room as single battalion in 28mm in frontage that is, it takes alot less room in depth.

The blue actualy has two colors, dark royal blue with marine blue highlights, I think it looks very cool, I do all my dark blue that way, royal blue with marine blue, no mater what scale, in 15mm and 28mm, I also had a tuch of light blue to bring out even more highlights. The royal blue needs the marine blue or it will be to dark and absorb all light.

Thats it, I'm now painting some French legere I think they will look very cool.

Republic To Empire 6mm Project, first photos.

Ok, as I said, I had this crazy idea about Republic to empire in 6mm.

I did this becasue all my 6mm have been aimed at big scale stuff, Borodino grand armee, polemos ect. Basicly single base units. What I had not done is to do big battalion games, like RtE, GdB ect. but in 6mm. The other reason is that when I had all my 28mm RtE my table seemed very small, and one of the selling points of the rules is that they can actuly be used for corps sized games, but I can bearly fit a half division on each side in 28mm.

So I decided to go against nature and do rules with 28mm in mind but in 6mm(aswell as 28mm)

I started with a division for each side, A french 1809-18014 division, to be honest I've forgotten how many battalions I orderd, I think 12 but I'm not sure, might be more. I also orderd a regiment of dragoons and one of lancers, AND two of hussars, ontopc of that I have 3 regiments of horse allready painted, 1 french chasseur, 1 polish chasseur and one wurtenberg chevalegeres, thats 7 regiments of horse and 12 battalions and 2 batteries.


Later I'll add another division and a heavy cav brigade.

So who are the French gonna fight? The Chinese? The Australians? Or what about the Prussians!!

Yes Prussians, first up is the Advance Guard at Möckern, this is 2 battalions og greandiers, One compisite jeger battalion, two battalions of east prussians, one reserve battalion and 3 landwehr.


Aswell as 2 hussar regiments and two uhlan regiments. Now brigading prussians is always hard. RtE gives each 3 battalion the same treatment as a brigade of other armies.

So the brigadeing will be jeger and grenadiers in 1 "brigade". East prussian and reserve in the second, and the 3 landwehr as the last, the hussars will be brigaded and the uhlan will be brigaded, and two batteries.

This will be expanded on later, in the end I hope to do the enite Yorcks Corps at Möckern, but thats in the future.


All my first battalions will be 24 strong, I'll probebly add more bigger stuff later, or add to the smaller one, I choose 24 becasue in the fall 1813 units will be tierd and undertrenght on all sides.

Also it means it's easy to get a unit done, I can probebly do two units in a single day

My 28mm are based 8 to 50x50mm, my 15mm are based 8 to 30x30mm, and now my 6mm are based 8 to 20x20mm, I did concider basing them 6 to 15x20mm, but it was starting to get really small, but woul have looked better with 4 bases, atleast in column, but for simplisity I did 8x3, and when/if I expand the units to 32 I get 4 bases.

When it comes to grading I'm grading all landwehr as drilled, they did a good job at Möckern, even against the Naval Artillerist, which were among the best Napoleon had to offer in 1813.

Grenadiers will be Vetran Elite, regular infantry will be vetran, not sure about reserve. jegers will be vetran elite,

For the french I'm grading the naval artillerist as vetran, while most regular infantry will be expected to be marie louises and just drilled. Hussars and Chassuers on both sides will be vetran, mabye a few of them will be vetan elite, I don't think you'll find a hussars or chasseurs that din't have extencive experience by this time in campaigning.

Not sure about the lancers, uhlans and dragoons tho.

Anyway this is my RtE 6mm Project. I got all I need to game, just need to paint it.

Back on Borodino

Holy crap, line time since last post, Anyway I have paited a little here and a little there, but nothing was worthy of having on the blog, I got a big order of baccus napoleonics, and to be honest I was a little disapionted, the bayonets on the french fell off, which I don't understand since the bayonets on the AWI and 7YW figures are solid as hell, but here they fell of like leafs in the fall.
Also I painted some hussars, also a disapointment, they were lumpy not very detailed, my only conclution is that this is baccus early work, becasue the 7YW and AWI figures are superb.
Anyway I lost heart and didn't feel like painting them anymore, mabye I'll get back and paint them later.
But I did want to paint more 6mm cavalry, so I got out my adler and damn they are nice.

So here they are a brigade base of French Chasseurs A Cheval

Anyway while I was painting these, I got a crazy idea, Republic to Empire in 6mm, more on that later.