Napoleonic page

Introduction

This page is under construction and at the moment contains some photos of my Baccus Austrian Napoleonic figures along with a few Irregular figures. Later I will add more pictures as I finish painting the rest of my army as well as some shots from our games. We chose Baccus figures because of the good range of figures and the high quality.

The figures are based for Grand Armee using full size bases (75mmx75mm) which gives us a lot basing options for 6mm figures. The visual effect is one of the main reasons that swayed us to 6mm. Each of my infantry bases have 60 infantry or 24 Cavalry per base. Each infantry base has 2 units, each with 3 ranks of 10 men and the cavalry have 2 units each with 3 ranks of 4 troopers.

The army loosely based on some of the corps that fought at Wagram and also Aspern-Essling.

6mm Gallery

Army Command Stand

I used a number of different figures to create this including some tables from baccus and some figures from Irregulars "posh pack". The main tent and flag pole was from Irregular. I forgot to paint the flag before I photographed this as I was in a rush to get it on the table.

Corp Commander

Baccus Generals along with some Irregular French cassions and casualty figures from Irregular to add a bit of a diorama to the base.

Austrian Infantry brigade

One of my standard infantry briagdes for FPGA. The whites uniforms are good in 6mm scale as they shown up easily on the table. There are 60 figures on the base in two units with 2-3 generals and aides.

More Austrian Infantry

Another picture showing the great detail and poses of the figures. This is an alternative basing where I created 3 units each with 20 figures (mainly because I had some extra command strips I need to use up) but I like how it came out.

Hungarian Infantry brigade

Nicely detailed figures with and the Hungarians are a bit more colourful with their blue trousers and shakos.

Austrian Combined Grenadiers

As these were taken from various line units I painted the strips with different coloured facing units to match their parent units. I'm not sure how accurate this is but it looks good. I based this on a couple images in an Osprey book that showed grenadiers with different facings fighting together fighting around the granery at Aspern Essling .

Mixed brigade

From the organisations I have seen, the Austrian advance guard brigades often had a mix of line infantry along with light troops and a regiment of light cavalry. FPGA allows you to field units like these as mixed brigades and they are pretty useful on the table.

Light Cavalry brigade

More nice figures from Baccus. This light Cav base contains Hussars but you could mix light cav types such as Hussars and Light Dragoons

Heavy Cavalry brigade

This base has two regiments on Curassiers and some commander figures. There's very little difference between these and the dragoons at this scale, apart from the black armoured breastplate.

Austrian Artillery

These are very good models of the Austrian artillery and limbers. I based 2 guns and 8 crew to each base along with limbers and a general, all on half size bases (37.5mm wide x 75mm deep).

Another Corp Commander

This base depicts a number of generals advancing along a road. The escort was made up of some spare Hussar officers and std bearers, and the fences is a brass etched model.

Austrian Cassions

Just for some variety I used a pack of cassions instead of limbers, and I also sprinkled a couple of spare generals on the bases.

Irregular generals and Tents

I used about 3 different Irregular stands of general along with a couple of figures from the Posh pack. They look fine size wise, on the base if you don't try to mix Baccus figures on the same base. The Irregular general packs are usually good and contain some interesting poses/mini dioramas.

Infantry base with Ambulance.

I had the model from Irregular lying around so I decided to use it on one of my infantry bases. I doubt they were this close to the action but it makes a good diorama.