{"id":988,"date":"2012-03-04T02:17:23","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T02:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=988"},"modified":"2012-03-04T02:20:54","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T02:20:54","slug":"the-prussian-cavalry-are-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=988","title":{"rendered":"The Prussian Cavalry are Coming!"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Close-up<\/a>
Close-up view of some new, 10mm Prussians<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’m still banging away at my Prussian corps for LSNC: Napoleonic Wars. \u00a0I needed one regiment of Hussars, but the figures come in a bag of 30 and a command bag of 9. \u00a0That allowed me to make 5 regiments (with one regiment short a figure, but hey, sue me).<\/p>\n

\"All<\/a>
All five regiments I finished this weekend<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After all the Prussian line and reserve infantry, it felt like these were painted in no time. \u00a0Interestingly, most of the Prussian hussars had different colored tunics and pelisses.<\/p>\n

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\"The<\/a>
The death head Lieb Hussaren<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It turns out that Prussian hussars were not authorized standards until 1815 — after Waterloo. \u00a0The Old Glory command packs come with standard bearers, so I had to “make up” standard colors based on infantry designs.<\/p>\n

I can’t wait to get these on the table, hunting down French stragglers!<\/p>\n

These bases haven’t been labeled yet. \u00a0Sam Fuson is making up sheets of labels for us to post on the Web page when the rules come out. \u00a0One of them is the model Prussian corps (I corps) that I am painting. \u00a0Sam and I have been sending the labels back and forth to each other, refining them. \u00a0As soon as they are done, I’ll be printing them out and labeling all my Prussians.<\/p>\n