The (clickable) army is forming up; I'm two command stands (and some grout and flock) short of four battalia. Some lovely baggage arrived yesterday, from a certain Mr, Imrie, and I'm currently working on the standards for the Royal Lifeguard Regiment of Foot. Once these are based, I shall put everything away until after Partizan.
What I've managed, so far, is to prove the concept of the bases and get a feel for how long it takes to base a regiment where most of the minis are fully painted. This turns out to be around a week, assuming a little snagging and the time needed to drape the standards. This means I'll need 20 weeks to base all the foot I have planned, perhaps 15 to base the horse and guns, and at least 5 for terrain. It'll be a busy winter (and spring!) preparing for a Salute game...
Nice, very very nice!
ReplyDeleteMerci! :-)
DeleteThat's long range planning! A butterfly like myself would find it hard to stay focused for such a long time.
ReplyDeleteI am a little confused about how the term battalia was used in the 17th century. Sometimes it seems to refer to a battalion/regiment and other times it seems to refer to a brigade or group of regiments. Maybe they just weren't consistent or maybe I'm easily confused. :)
At any rate, I'm very much looking forward to watching this project develop.
We think or a battalia as being a group of very roughly 500 men drawn from one or more regiments as a battlefield formation. Regiments could be much larger or much smaller than a battalia, but 500 or so seems to have been a convenient size for battles.
DeleteSolid progress sir!
ReplyDeleteI thank you, sir! Slow but steady progress on the writing, too.
DeleteAccording to Wikipedia Battalia refers to both the formation of the entire army and they way in which individual units deployed for battle. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battalia_(formation)
ReplyDeleteGreat looking figures, but the formation pictured looks more like the Dutch or Swedish brigade formation than a Tertio.
It's believed that the Royalists were drawn up in tertia at Edgehill, but the way they are is pretty much the chance manner in which I laid them out on the table. :-)
DeleteThe Tertias at Edgehill were administrative formations. Lord Lindsey, who wanted to deploy the Royalist infantry in the "Dutch" formation, resigned his command when he was overruled and the infantry was deployed in the "Swedish" formation which would match the above photograph.
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