"British Cav 1815 Guidons (type carried and where to buy) " Topic
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Madmike1 | 04 Jul 2015 3:24 a.m. PST |
I am in the process of building a British Waterloo army (Nap Battles rules) and need advice on what guidons were carried by different types of cav. Did all cav types carry King and Regimental colours? I have: Lt Dragoons Scots grey Hussars Horse Guard Heavy Dragoons For my infantry I was looking at buying the 'Flag Dude' but he doesn't have much range for British cav. |
Anthony Barton | 04 Jul 2015 3:36 a.m. PST |
Although Regiments did possess them , they were not carried in the field, apparently. |
chazman | 04 Jul 2015 4:27 a.m. PST |
I think a bit of artistic licence should be allowed and guidions deployed …even if not strictly accurate ..they look pretty. I think the "flag dude" will pretty much do anything you ask for, certainly when I was building a Flodden army he came up trumps! |
Jemima Fawr | 04 Jul 2015 4:44 a.m. PST |
As Tony says, they weren't carried in the field at all. However, against my better judgement, I bought some 1812-15 Light Dragoons from Old Glory 15s for our Waterloo mega-game at the NAM in 2002 (you didn't do them then, Tony!). :) Annoyingly, there were guidon-bearers in the bags and I was forced to use them. Having originally painted the flags, I recently had to replace them (the card bases and paper flags went mouldy following a roof-leak in my 'command bunker'), so used GMB Flags. GMB does both 15mm and 28mm designs, including the 1815 patterns: gmbdesigns.com |
seneffe | 04 Jul 2015 5:21 a.m. PST |
Yes definitely no British cavalry guidons at Waterloo. IIRC the last time they were possibly carried in battle was at Talavera. But they do look pretty so if you fancy it why not? Excess 'compulsary purchase' cavalry standard bearers are a nuisance with several ranges (AB is a notable exception to this). My answer is to do a super quick conversion and carefully cut away the pole from the figure, then gently bend its arm so that the now empty hand is on the reins. Then I either paint him as an NCO with the unit, or put him with a staff base as an orderly. |
Jemima Fawr | 04 Jul 2015 8:40 a.m. PST |
Indeed and I've done that as well… especially for those figures where the particular troop-type weren't even issued with flags of any description (though there was nothing I could do with several dozen Old Glory SYW Prussian Grenadier standard bearers…)! |
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