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Vielmaler29 Dec 2024 3:28 a.m. PST

Hello
Here are my next and last Prussian line-units for 1806 i need
All 28mm Perrys

Try to make next days pics with all the line inf.

Regards Dirk

14Bore29 Dec 2024 4:22 a.m. PST

There are impressive, fantastic job on them

BillyNM29 Dec 2024 5:02 a.m. PST

Lovely! Looking forward to seeing them all en-masse.

CHRIS DODSON Supporting Member of TMP29 Dec 2024 9:45 a.m. PST

Unfortunately the pictures are a little out of focus.

However, they do look very nice indeed.

Best wishes,

Chris

d88mm194029 Dec 2024 10:39 a.m. PST

You seem to have mastered the "realistic terrain made wargameable" conundrum! Well done!

JMcCarroll29 Dec 2024 11:24 a.m. PST

1806 Prussians have many elite units available. Grenadiers and Cuirassiers in numbers not seen in 1813-1815.

Still they face the best French armies of 1806.

The table and figures look excellent!

robert piepenbrink Supporting Member of TMP29 Dec 2024 11:36 a.m. PST

Very nice job--troops, flags and table all three. I'll confess my enthusiasm for that army is limited. I tend either to fast-forward to the Liberation Wars or back to Frederick the Great. But JMcCarroll is right: they were fighting probably the peak army of one of history's greatest generals. That's a lot to ask of anyone.

VonBlucher30 Dec 2024 6:20 p.m. PST

These look Great!! I also have an 1806 Prussian Army but in 18mm (AB's) and they are my favorite army. Their infantry was as good as the French infantry of 1806 but were horribly led. The command and control was brutal. No Calvary reserve, artillery batteries didn't coordinate fire and like at Auerstadt your best lite troops 1 battalion of Jaegers and 3 battalions of Fusiliers were holding the right flank of the Prussian Army. Cavalry charges weren't coordinated with infantry attacks or with horse artillery, at least the major attacks weren't, and it seemed everything was sent in piecemeal as they arrived on the field. It didn't help that Brunswick was killed early on and with the confusion the King tried to take control of the battle. Blucher's hatred of the French caused him to charge the French unsupported. Plus Napoleon was scared of the mounted troops of the Prussian Army and considered them the finest in Europe at that time.

Vielmaler04 Jan 2025 3:08 a.m. PST

Hello,thanks for the comments.
I like the early Prussian becouse they have more colorfull than the late Prussians.They look for me boring but i have them for sure too :-)
And yes the leadership was very bad,out of the new time/fight

And now all Prussian line inf. for both battlefields Jena/Auersteadt

For the rest of the Prussians i need my bigger gamingtable.I need "only" the Hussars and Artillery to finished the hole army.
After that i start with the Saxons

Regards Dirk

CHRIS DODSON Supporting Member of TMP04 Jan 2025 6:31 a.m. PST

Very impressive stuff indeed.

Best wishes,

Chris

von Winterfeldt04 Jan 2025 1:57 p.m. PST

great and impressive looking army, but I am missing the Schützen

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