ferg981 | 12 Apr 2014 9:29 a.m. PST |
All Please find a quick review on my blog here link Concerning the new Plastic Hanover infantry from Warlord Games Thanks F |
jambo1 | 12 Apr 2014 10:19 a.m. PST |
good review, they look very interesting, might tempt me to go buy a box!!! |
Cheriton | 12 Apr 2014 11:33 a.m. PST |
Any news on when/if they will be offered boxed separately on their own? Have some inspiring ideas for them
Cheers, |
ferg981 | 12 Apr 2014 4:13 p.m. PST |
Cheriton I'm not sure. I didn't see any at Salute today. Allegedly they are releasing plastic Spanish and Portuguese Infantry too F |
spontoon | 12 Apr 2014 4:27 p.m. PST |
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ferg981 | 12 Apr 2014 4:32 p.m. PST |
Cheers Spontoon I thought it didn't look right. Been a long day F |
deadhead | 12 Apr 2014 11:52 p.m. PST |
It is even worse than that. Even the Saxons cannot agree how many Ns
..Hannover or Hanover? |
Musketier | 15 Apr 2014 8:23 a.m. PST |
Wonder where the evidence for a) flat caps and b) the flags comes from? I was under the impression that very little was known about the flags (which would hardly have featured the Union in any case), and that by 1815 at least, from a near-contemporary listing all the battalions wore either the "Belgic" or the "stovepipe" shako? |
ferg981 | 15 Apr 2014 8:44 a.m. PST |
The Mont St Jean website appears to imply that the flat caps were worn by the Landwehr regiments F |
Rod MacArthur | 15 Apr 2014 4:03 p.m. PST |
Musketier wrote: Wonder where the evidence for a) flat caps and b) the flags comes from?I was under the impression that very little was known about the flags (which would hardly have featured the Union in any case), and that by 1815 at least, from a near-contemporary listing all the battalions wore either the "Belgic" or the "stovepipe" shako? I agree, the contemporary sources show almost all Hanoverian battalions with stovepipe shakos (probably old British pre-1812 stocks) with officers in Belgic shakos. A few flags are known, and others can be guessed (for wargame purposes), but none would have been British Union Flags. Ferg981 wrote: The Mont St Jean website appears to imply that the flat caps were worn by the Landwehr regiments. True, but it is hardly an authoritive source. I suspect the illustrations are based on the odd contemporary print of an officer wearing an "undress" cap, as was normal in several German units (eg the Brunswick officers also wore such caps, when off-duty, but no one suggests that all of their troops also did so). Rod |
Camcleod | 15 Apr 2014 7:22 p.m. PST |
The Rawkins booklet is one of the better guides to the Hanoverian Infantry of 1814-15: link Of the flags only the top left yellow flag with horse and tree is real – that of the Gifhorn Landwehr Bn., the rest are conjecture. |
Lord Hill | 09 Jul 2016 3:28 p.m. PST |
I've just picked up a few boxes and have to say I'm a it confused. The figs are identical to the British infantry sets but with different heads (flat caps). Each sprue consists of 4 centre company men, and 1 flank company man. But all the sources I can find say that there were no flank companies in Hanoverian battalions, the booklet which accompanies the box even cofirms this "Both Field and Landwehr battalions had four companies with neither type of battalion having flank companies of grenadiers or light troops." Furthermore the box promises "you can create most of the battalions fielded by the Hanoverians" but according to Cent Jours centjours.mont-saint-jean.com only the Lauenberg battalion contained men in the uniform in the Warlord box – that's 1 battalion out of 23 Hanoverian battalions present in 1815. The rest are either Landwehr wearing only centre company uniforms (so why does the box contain flank company men?) or line and light infantry who either wore similar uniforms to the Landwehr (again, no flank) or an entirely different uniform (without lace, more similar to the Rifles' uniform). Seems a bit of a con! |