Russian Infantry, part III (or IV, maybe)

Three more russian regiments, in different coat colours. The first one is the Vojvod Apraxin Regiment: raised in 1700 in Moscow from volunteers. At Poltava 1 battalion guarding the camp, the other with the city garrison, then in Finland. Merged with Galitski regiment in 1712.

The second is the "whole red" Regiment Moskovski, here in its 1709 uniform: raised in 1700 in Moscow from volunteers as Col. Ivanitski’s Regiment. At Narva 1700, then in Russia. At Poltava in the Hallart division. Then in Baltic, Pruth 1711, Finland 1713-14 and at the Staket landing, 1719. 

The third and last is the Regiment Nisjegorodski: raised in Moscow trough conscription in 1700 as Col. Bolmann’s regiment. At Narva 1700, Baltic 1702-04. At Poltava in the Hallart division, then Baltic 1710, Pruth 1711, Finland 1713-14 and Swedish east coast 1719. Green uniform 1708-11.

With these six units the infantry for the Maurice refight of Poltava is nearly completed. Only a blue-clad grenadier regiment is still missing, then I had to paint 7 more Dragoon Regiments and a bunch of Cossacks.

The whole August production is here:

More Russian Infantry for Poltava

Two more GNW Russian units, this time in yellow and in white outfits:

Regiment Kievski. Raised through conscription in Moscow in 1700 as Colonel W. von Delden. At Narva, then in the Baltic theatre. At Grodno 1706 then in the Russian campaign: present at Poltava in the Repnin’s division. At Riga in 1710 then in Pomerania. The 1708 yellow coat changed to red with yellow lining in 1711.

Regiment Troitski. Raised in 1700 as the previous, first Colonel Fliwerk. At Narva and in the Baltic. At Poltava garrisoned the main camp; then again in Baltic and Finland campaign. Here is depicted wearing the 1708 white uniform. The white flag is the Colonel flag.

First redoubt finished

Some posts ago I showed the early stages of the redoubt construction for Poltava.  Now I have finished the first one:

I recall that these redoubt are planned for Maurice as a "immobile unit" and hence are not intended to host a base. Rather they have an intrinsic garrison (which will be materialised by a couple of minis). In Maurice terms the Redoubt characteristics are:

Redoubts are immobile garrisons

-1 Disruption point. Broken at 2

-Fire 2 dices as Trained at 4 BW

-Fires in any direction at a single target

-Hard Cover as in a city against enemy fire

-Combat value of 4 unmodified in defense. 

-Cannot assault.

-Cannot be assaulted by cavalry.

-Broken if Attacker doubles. Any other results is no effect.

There are still four of them to be finished. (In my planned Maurice scenario the redoubts are scaled to 5.

Still fighting

After a long absence, a little "sign of life". I was busy minding other business and so I put brushes aside for a while.

In the few spare time I was able to carve out, I finished these two "Morale Markers" for Maurice, one for the Russian and the other for the Swedes:

As far as the Russian army is concerned, I had the time to finish Regiment Butirsky, one of the oldest regiments of the Army, being raised in Moscow in 1642 as an "Old Foreign Regiment". Its colonel till 1705 was Gordon, a Tsar close acquaintance. It was in the Azov campaign 1695-96, then at the Narva defeat. In the Baltic campaign then in Poland. Present at Poltava and in the unfortunate Truth campaign, 1711.

It was disbanded by Catherine the Great and merged into the Kuban Jager Corps, in total careless of the Army tradition.