"Napoleonic Elves in a fictitious 18th C. army? " Topic

Elves minis being -almost always- the less caricatural / cartoonesque non-humans, they could pass easily for humans on a tabletop (did it e.g. with Ral Partha ones long, long ago).
I just (re)discovered Alternative Armies Flintloque range, and realized that, among their semi-Napoleonic Elves (known initially as ‘Crystal Elves') some could well appear in a fictitious Lace Wars army. Indeed some of them look as they could fit in a mid-18°C setting. For instance their milicia link , foot carabiniers link Dark Elves light infantry link , and most Elvish cavalry (with helmets or busby peaks filed down & plumes shortened..) link , link , link , link .

See more detailled presentation at:
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A Google search returned only *1* link to a mini (but very eye-candy) gallery:
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Now, I hope thet on the Whole World Wide Web there other pics of them: if you know of such, be kind enough to let me know?

Thanks in advance,
Jean-Louis

I think it would be da bomb!

Afterall, we really know that the Prussian 6th Regiment (Guards) were known for their height and that Dwarves were activey recruited as the Fusilier Regiments (i.e. originally 1740s, these were made up of guys who did not meet the minimum height requirements.

If only folks spent this much time and energy studying the real history…

For those worried by the cross-posting: the Fantasy board is the natural one to ask for details & links about elvish minis; 18th century is the endvisaged setting; Lace Wars Sci-Fi could be a prequel to VSF (Lacepunk before Steampunk), and a few posters on the last board showed some interest for 'Cosmos 1745' -or even 'Castle Falkenstein 1745'.
Jean-Louis

This is exciting news that dwarves were recruited for Friedrich's fusilier regiments. It would stand to reason that IR 49 would have had an especially large amount of dwarves, since some of the pioneers undoubtably had mining backgrounds.
Is it not possible that orders were transmitted not by drum, but by yodeling, such as occured in some of the Bavarian and Tyrolean regiments? Similar singular traditions persist in many armies. For example, it is said that in some Alabama regiments the men are awoken in the morning not with a bugle, but with a banjo.

Now if they were Dwarves rather than Elves would they be commanded by Grouchy rather than Grumpy?

Undoubtedly so, especially concerning Grouchy's winning ways in leadership, and his experience with testy dwarves: consider the one from Corsica. However, one should not discount the fine leadership qualities of Grumpy, who many believe was non other than Der Gross Konig in his latter years.

My initial suggestion was NOT to use them as Elves in some 'Castle Falkenstein' game -most are in typical Napoleonic uniforms, anyway- but to use the appropriate ones as minis of *HUMANS* in uniforms of original cut, with new types of helmets, &c… to add interesting (minority) types to the army of a Lace Wars Imagi-Nation.

Not a bad idea, abdul. Marechel de Saxe was thinking along similar lines in the 1730's with his hypothetical legion.