"Some conjectural flags for my Anglo-Italian Force in Spain" Topic

Evening all,

I know i've taken a gamble here and will probably enrage the button counters, but i've sketched some conjectural flags for my Anglo-Italian force in Spain for the following units

- Chasseurs Britanniques
- Anglo-Italian Levy
- Calabrian Free Corps
- Sicilian Estero

Pictures and rationale on my blog below

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I'm looking for feedback on the flags, but not the obvious feedback for things I already know – like my sketches are rubbish and that my Union Flags are not 100% correct.

Anyway, let the feedback commence!!

Regards

J

Oh, go for it! Older wargamers than I am once fielded the Orange Guard of 1815 under a flag having a single orange--labelled "Sunkist." If it's not fun, why do we bother?

Except for the fact that as a light infantry battalion, the Chasseurs Britanniques would not have carried a flag, they look good to me. But then I add flags to just about any of my Napoleonic units even if they weren't issued them, such as Prussian Landwehr!

Jim

GMB do Chasseur Britannique colours. They are quite 'British' in nature with a medium blue regimental colour and a 'standard' crowned badge and laurel wreath in the middle of both flags.

Regarding light infantry colours, I always do a base for my British battalions with their colours. Therefore, if they are being 'historical' light infantry I leave out the base. If I need to beef up the line battalions for a particular scenario, I add in the colour base and use them as line infantry.

You might just as well do the real ones or much closer to, as they might well have kept the ones before being chased to Sicily as a govt. in exile. I did not attempt to read the text… might if ever had the minis in 18mm ;)

in the book at least 2 pages: the second are flags of Calabrian rgts.
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plenty of uniforms

most likely this one somewhere
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Rgt Reali Presidi became 1st Estero
Rgt Real Sannita became 2nd Estero
Rgt Estero became 3rd Estero

JCfrog

Great book that, like it. Useful resource

Spoke to my painter he said no to the second sicilian flag suggestion as he said in 18mm scale it would be impossible, lol

Thanks though

Regards

J

Those oddball British allies add a little color to the British army, and dilute the quality of their shooting in CLS.

Light Infantry Battalions could and indeed did carry flags into action. 52nd at Waterloo very well documented.

Ferg… you can have it half folded and pierced by bullets and fringed out😃

"Light" yes, deadhead--especially by the Napoleonic Wars. Rifles, no. And generally any word meaning "hunter"--chasseur, cazadores, jaeger and such--denotes someone who tended to be a little too dispersed to carry standards in the field. It's not 100%, but it's a pretty good bet.

Haythornthwaite's Uniforms of the Peninsular War has a nice Mike Chappell painting of a Calabrian Free Corps rifleman wearing a dark blue-green jacket with yellow facings, and a black and white picture of an officer in red jacket with yellow facings. So it look like Calabrian yellow was reflected in the facings.

Would a flag that didn't look suitably allied be tolerated?