Vive l'Empereur!

Vive l'Empereur!  Wait... what?!?

The Iron Marshal has been tasked with organizing a new provisional corps.

A fine gift from my friends in the South.

Davout reviews his First Provisional Division of four battalions.

Gen. de Brigade Le Frog commands for now.

The Second Provisional Division of five battalions

lacks any commanders

The Second Provisional Division clearly better painted.... err uniformed & supplied!

Divisional Artillery Assets are rebuilding

Davout's Provisional Corps:

Seven Ligne Bns.

Two Leger Bns.

One Foot Battery

The True and Honest Prussians were complaining of a lack of French to scrum with and so a great Ebay campaign has been waged over the last year and a half.  Von R. has another ~5 or so Bns. waiting for command stands to fill them out and another 2 Bns. are in the mail from Ebay.

Likely will have around 15 Bns of infantry when its all done.

Much has changed in the last 18 months.  A move far to the North has caused little gaming or painting to occur.  The hobby is not quite dead and the lead pile is assailed with brush in hand once a blue moon.  Will need to find some time to find a new gaming group or hold a few solo games now that I am acquiring both sides.

6th Prussian Line

Today a question came up on TMP that made me want to reference my Prussian line muskeeter figures, but I realized that I dont really have any good shots of either the 6th or 7th Line on my blog yet.

As I use this blog as an archive for reference at times I dug out the 6th Line for a quick photo shoot. As always, all figures are Calpe Miniatures with GMB flags.  My desk lamp appear to be making the figures look more gloss than they are in person.

This also gives me a chance to show off my latest Ebay purchase, set of 6 trees with a rough ground terrain piece.  The maker cleverly put magnets in the forest floor piece and the  trees are all on one inch round washers.  They stand on their own, but are even more sturdy with magnet in play.

I/6th Line

II/6th Line in foreground

Quick close up shot of the gear... because so often I see an amazing paint job and want to copy it and they never take pictures of all baggage that Napoleonic figures tend to be modeled with.