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Saalfeld, Jena, Auerstaedt: the great battles of Napoleon's decisive 1806 campaign as the Prussians and their Saxon allies tried to halt the Grande Armée at the peak of its abilities and fame.
Although something of a reluctant and coerced ally of Prussia, the Saxons made up around twenty percent of the allied army that mobilised against Napoleon in the late summer of 1806, but anyone wanting to collect a Saxo-Prussian army in 15/18mm for this period will have struggled to find appropriate figures in the earlier pre-1810 Saxon uniform.
Our new 18mm range now fills that gap. Sculpted by Alan Marsh and designed to compliment the existing AB Figures range of 'Jena' Prussians, all the principal musketeer, grenadier, light and heavy cavalry, and artillery uniforms of the 1806 Saxon army are represented. All figures have the long pigtail of the powdered queue hair style - still considered an essential part of military fashion by both the Saxon and Prussian armies at this time, and the Cuirassiers are depicted without the cuirass which does not appear to have been worn in combat by Saxon heavy cavalry.
The Saxon army's only hussar regiment can even be recreated using our officially approved conversion of the hussar figures from the AB Figures 'Jena' Prussian range. The Schützen (or "Sharpshooters") only made up a small proportion of each infantry regiment in 1806, but we have included them with the distinctive plume on their bicornes for completeness. For artillery guns we would suggest using Prussian pieces from our AB Figures 15/18mm range.
These figures are intended primarily for the 1806 campaign, but seasoned Napoleonic gamers will have quickly noted that apart from the small detail of the 1806 specific hair style, our new figures can also be used for the Saxon contingent that served as Napoleon's allies in 1809. The Schützen / Sharpshooters figures in the range now come into their own, as in 1809 they were all combined to form two separate Schützen battalions.
As Philip Haythornthwaite has pointed out, it is perhaps unfair that the Saxon army of the Napoleonic wars is most remembered for its association with the disaster of 1806; the army's 'rout' at Wagram under the command of controversial French Marshal Bernadotte in 1809; and the 'treacherous' defection to the allies at Leipzig in 1813. Now you can collect an 1806 Saxon army and help to restore Saxon military prestige!
Here are the catalogue details for the new miniatures:
18mm 1806 SAXONS Listing
Designed & sculpted by Alan Marsh
Variants in parenthesises. Variants are supplied randomly.
300NSX01 Musketeer, marching (5)
300NSX02 Musketeer, loading and firing (4)
300NSX03 Schützen / Sharpshooters, marching (2)
300NSX04 Schützen / Sharpshooters, loading and firing (2)
300NSX05 Officer (2)
300NSX06 Musketeer drummer (2)
300NSX07 Musketeer standard bearer (1)
300NSX08 Musketeer NCO with spontoon (2)
300NSX09 Grenadier, marching (4)
300NSX10 Grenadier, loading and firing (2)
300NSX11 Grenadier drummer (1)
300NSX12 Grenadier standard bearer (1)
300NSX13 Mounted officer (1)
300NSX14 Garde du Corps / Carabinier / Cuirassier, at rest (4)
300NSX15 Garde du Corps / Carabinier / Cuirassier officer (1)
300NSX16 Garde du Corps / Carabinier / Cuirassier bugler (1)
300NSX17 Garde du Corps / Carabinier / Cuirassier standard bearer (1)
300NSX18 Chevauxleger, charging (4)
300NSX19 Chevauxleger officer (1)
300NSX20 Chevauxleger bugler (1)
300NSX21 Chevauxleger standard bearer (1)
300NSX22 Artillery crew (4)
300NSX23 Hussar trooper (3)**
300NSX24 Hussar officer (1)**
300NSX25 Hussar trumpeter (1)**
** Conversions from AB Figures.
NEW RELEASE SPECIAL OFFER – THE "DIRECT FROM DRESDEN" UNIT DEALS
For a strictly limited time (until our next new release), you can buy a complete Saxon Musketeer Battalion (at a 1:20 figure/actual soldiers ratio) at a special discount price.
Our new 18mm 1806 Saxons can be ordered in the U.K. from Fighting 15s and in North America from Eureka Miniatures U.S.A.