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Yes, it was a 2013 goal…. the last batch of Imperials is finally completed! Now I have all the unit of the Reichsarmee (minus the elusive Sachsen-Gotha dragoons, 200 horses, so well below the Volley and Bayonet scale).
Going into detail we have:
the Pfalz-Zweibrucken regiment (33 distinct contingents),
rated “poor” by Soubise. An uneventful career, probably present at Korbitz,
1759.
The Nassau-Weilburg regiment,
from the Upper Renish District as the previous: 9 contingents, first battalion
captured by Wunsch at the surrender of Leipzig, most of the rank and file
preferring the Prussian service to captivity. The remaining battalion took part in 1761 campaign in
Saxony. The flags are completely speculative:
The Ernestine-Sachsen regiment.
A composite unit with one battalion from Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, the other with
contingents from Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg,
Sachsen-Coburg-Meiningen, Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld and Sachsen-Hildburghausen.
It joined the Reichsarmee in November 1758, the various Dukes being unwilling
to fight against Prussia. It was at the action at Zinna, 1759. Again the flag
is completely speculative but is based on the Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach flag in the
WSS that I saw here:
The
Munster regiments, Nagel (red facings) and Elverfeldt (white facings) each one battalion strong. Rated “good” by Soubise and
captured by the Hereditary Prince of Brunswick at Meiningen and Wasungen in
1759. No further actions are recorded.
The
other Lower Renish-Westphalian regiment is the Mengersen regiment from
Paderborn. It was only one battalion strong. I was in doubt if paint it or not: then I read some lines in Kronoskaf regarding the 1758 campaign: “The regiment
acted as a Free Battalion and took part in several skirmishes”. So I crossed the Rubicon and decided to portray it as a skirmisher base for V&B. The regiment was rated
“mediocre” but had nonetheless a long and eventful career being at the siege of
Sonnenstein, at Korbitz, Strehla and Saalfeld in 1761 when it was annhilated in
a 5 hour long combat.
In the meantime I was left with some red-coated Hannoverian Garde du Corps. Since I have already them, I converted them into red-coated french cavalry regiments, adding the trumpeter and the flag-bearer. So, based by three for each brigade, the regiments Colonel-General (with the trumpeter), Harcourt (with the flag) and Noailles:
Since I have already done regiments Fitz-James and La Reine, I have all the red-coated french heavy cavalry regiments so from here to now on only a lot of white-coated, red faced regiments with some sparse blue one....
The castle in the first picture is made from paper, found elsewhere in the web:
