WSS Troops in action

A first run out for my War of Spanish Succession armies on Saturday down at Beacon Gamers. To balance the forces it was British Dutch and Austrians against French, Bavarian, Hessian and a few Saxons

Rules used were a big battles version of Rebels and Patriots

The forces were somewaht compress as I thought we might be limited for space, but we could have spread out more

As a result the action concentrated on the two cavalry wings

Thanks to Andy and Ian for helping with the play test

Of course as a result I need more troops, but only more dismounted dragoons

WSS Garde Te Voet

The last of my Dutch Infantry for the War of Spanish Succession is the Garde Te Voet

WSS Dutch Infantry

Just finished by the end of the month my first three Dutch Infantry regiments for the War of Spanish Succession, all quite sombre in their grey coats.

Regiment Welderen

Regiment Pallandt

Regiment Deelen

Based on information from Kronscaf Project WSS. Next up is the Gardes te Voet.

and ... I forgot to mention that a couple of the drummers are 3D printed to make up the numbers, not great prints but they did the job.

More War of Spanish Succession Cuirassiers

Completed all the units on the workbench,basically using up all the remaining Cuirassier figures in the stash.

A couple of generic German Cuirassiers as I could not find details of any specific units I wanted, I have given them a couple of Palatinate sandards to match the facings

Austrian Alt Hanover (front) and Cusani (rear) Cuirassiers

Danish 2nd Sjaellandske Cuirassiers (strictly they should not have backplates)

Mousquetieres Gris and Dutch Cuirassiers

After a busy Saturday fighting with my Bundeswehr against Warpac I have completed two of the latest sets from Strelets. The Mousquetieres Gris will provide the fourth unit of my Maison du Roi brigade.

At the moment the two unts of Dutch cuiraasiers ae very generic, grey coats with red or blue facing were very common and very few specific flags are available.

As for the other Strelets set, "German Cuirassiers skirmishing" I have not found a unit to tempt me yet

WSS Bavarian Cuirassiers

Another batch of cuirassiers for the War of Spanish Succession completed, Bavarians this time. The mix of figures are the same as the Austrians, using the figures from both Strelets cuirassier sets. I only extra is a commander, and I've also painted his Austrian counterpart (at the rear). With four units I could represent all of the Bavarian cuirassier regiments.

Regiment Arco at the front and Weikel behind

Regiment Costa at the front and Wolframsdorf behind

That completes my WSS project until Strelets manages to make any more new sets.

WSS Austrian Cuirassiers

No surprise for my first units of the year, I have created 4 units of Austrian Cuirassiers, all wearing the helmet more commonly worn when fighting the Ottomans. The figures themselves are a mixture of the Strelets Austrian and Bavarians so I could create some consistent charging and resting units for both nationalities.

Left flank - regiments Taffe (front) and Commercy (rear)

Right flank - regiments Jung Hesse Darmstadt (front) Zanthe (rear)

WSS British Dragoons

After what seems an age I have finished painting some units. These are the Strelets British Dragoons and I have painted the units from Ross's Dragoon Brigade plus one extra.

James Wynne's Regiment of Dragoons lated the Royal Irish Dragoons

John Hay's (Grey) Dragoons later the Scots Greys, some writers think they rode grey horses, but the Grey Dragoons title came from the coat colour immediately prior to the WSS and there is one picture that might show a couple of dragoons from the regiment on grey horses at Schellenburg.

The Erbprinz von Hessen-Kassel Dragoons made up the third regiment of the brigade

There were only two British dragoon regiments that served in Flanders through the WSS, so for a third I added Cunningham's/Killigrew's Dragoons that served in Spain

WSS yet more French Cavalry

I could easily have painted all the new Strelets Garde do Corps figures as that unit as it comprised eight strong companies, but instead I only painted one "company" from that unit and painted the rest as Gendarmerie de France.

For the Garde du Corps company I selected the 1st Scottish company, this will join the Grenadiers a Cheval and Gendarmes of the Guard in my Maison du Roi Brigade

The Gendarmerie also formed a strong Brigade and I selected the Reine, Dauphin and Bourguinon companies. I much prefer the paper flag I used for Bourguinon rather than my attempts at hand painting the moulded on Strelets flags.

French dragoons on foot for the WSS

My last French dragoons are now deployed on foot, they are the Strelets French dragoons skirmishing and to make up the required numbers I have added some Zvezda GNW Russian dragoon horse, which are a close fit. Again I have picked units to give a variety.

Bretagne

Rohan Chabot

Vasse

These are the last WSS figures in my stash and I'm now awaitng Strelets restarting production so I can acquire more of their promised sets.

More cavalry for the War of Spanish Succession

Time seems to fly by, I am way behind with my plan for the month. I had taken account of my weeks holiday, but on teturning all my painting efforts have been diverted to 1:1 scale redecorating the hall. Still I have managed six cavalry units, three each of British and French.

Magnac's brigade, made from the Strelets late war dragoons painted as horse as I have plenty of dragoons

Regiment de Fourquevaux

Regiment de Abusson

Regiment de Vivans

Wood's brigade, again Strelets figures, Brtish regiment of horse late war.

The Queens regiment of horse commanded by Lumley

Earl of Plymouth's regiment of horse commanded by Wood

Duke of Shrewsbury's regiment of horse commanded by Cadogan

WSS French Dragoons plus one Dutch

It's taken a while to get these done, they are, a combination of the Strelets Dragoons "in attack" and "on the march". Five were painted as French and one as Dutch. I went for a varied set of uniforms rather than matching an orbat.

Regiment Royal (just spotted I didn't finish the lace on the drummer

Regiment Asfeld/Hauefort/Saumery

Regiment Grammont/Beauffremont

Regiment Lesparre/Granville

Mestre-de-Camp General Regiment

Finally the Dutch Guard Dragoons also called Eppingers