On the Road to Austerlitz: A 6mm Early Napoleonics Project

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Project Entry by elessar2590

The First Order

November 24, 2020

I just placed the first order.

10 x (O)Austrian Jagers, skirmishing
8 x (L)Austrian Dragoons
12 x (C)Austrian Grenadier Infantry, advancing
8 x (L)Austrian Hussars
8 x (L)Austrian Lancers
8 x (L)Austrian Cuirassiers
6 x (L)Austrian Mounted Generals
1 x Austrian Division

All Infantry are in Strips of 6 and the Cavalry are in Strips of 4.

The Division is 12 Battalions of 48 line infantry, 60 skirmishers, 1 battery of 4 guns, 1 regiment of 36 cavalry and commander

The Period I'm doing is the early one so lots of Black Leather Helmets, none of that Shako Nonsense, even the French are in Bicorn's rather than Shako's.

For a goal I found a scenario for the Battle of Marengo that I’m going to use as a guide.

https://oldmeldrumwargamesgroup.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/austrian-briefing-marengo2.pdf

I will need;

1 Brigade of “Grenzers” (Border Troops from the Eastern Part of the Empire)

2 Brigades of Grenadiers (The Austrians Continued the Practice of Bundling Grenadier Companies into full Regiments)

4 Brigades of Cavalry (I picked up a Brigade each of Hussars, Dragoons, Lancers and Cuirassiers plus whatever 36 Cavalry come in the Division)

8 Brigades of Line Infantry (72 Men per Brigade, 2x 36 arranged in Three Files of 12).

I’ve ordered all of that plus a little extra, the Grenzers wore a Shako and Eureka don’t sell any Austrians in Shako’s but I will make do possibly with Landwehr or British since at 6mm it won’t be noticed.

A Grenzer

Grenadiers, those Bearskins! These would be returned to their parent Regiments during peacetime but were almost always grouped together in Battalions for actual Combat.