Baccus 6mm Napoleonic Brunswickers

Welcome to new reader 'baxterilius' (Craig Baxter). Hope you enjoy the blog. Not "all Flames of War, all the time", but it stays in my rotation. (To be honest, I sometimes envy those that stick with only one or two periods.)

So Baccus Miniatures has started shipping their new Brunswick line of Napoleonic figures! When I played Column, Line, and Square as a kid, one of my friends had all of the Brunswick troops painted up. It was a nice, compact Division and made for a nice separate command. Seeing as these figures look just great, I decided it was time to get my own Brunswick command for Drums and Shakos Large Battles (DSLB).

I started by looking up their order of battle for Waterloo and found that I would need the following.

Brunswick Division at Waterloo
Command	Unit	Men	Figures	Packs
Advance Guard	Jager Battalion	690	96 + 16	RSA12 1 x 1, NBU5 x 1
Light Brigade	Leib Light Battalion	565	96 + 4	NBU1 x 2
	1st Light Battalion	688	96 + 4	NBU3 x 1, NBU4 x 1
	2nd Light Battalion	621	96 + 4	NBU3 x 1
	3rd Light Battalion	691	96 + 4	NBU3 x 1
Line Brigade	1st Line Battalion	586	96	NBU3 x 1
	2nd Line Battalion	500	96	NBU3 x 1
	3rd Line Battalion	667	96	NBU3 x 1
Artillery Brigade	Foot Battery	205 and 8 guns	8 and 2	NBU6 x ½
	Foot Battery	167 and 8 guns	8 and 2	NBU6 x ½
Cavalry Brigade	2nd Hussars	727	16 (32 2)	NBU5 x 1
	Uhlans	246	16	NBU9 x 1

¹ I want the battalion in both formed and skirmish order, so I am going to use the 1866 Austrian Jagers for the formed unit.
² As this is such a large cavalry regiment, I am considering running it as two separate units in DSLB.

For DSLB that will probably make the stats:

Unit	Q	C	Sk	Special	Notes
Jager Battalion	4+	4	2	Light	The Jager Battalion can break down into 6 Sk to be distributed amongst the other battalions in the Division.
Leib Light Battalion	5+	2	2	Conscript, Light	Granted a marginal Sk value to represent being better.
1st Light Battalion	5+	3	1	Conscript, Light	None
2nd Light Battalion	5+	2	1	Conscript, Light	None
3rd Light Battalion	5+	3	1	Conscript, Light	None
1st Line Battalion	5+	2	0	Conscript	None
2nd Line Battalion	5+	2	0	Conscript	None
3rd Line Battalion	5+	3	0	Conscript	None
Foot Artillery Battery	4+	-	-	Medium Artillery, +1 CD	Battery has 8 guns
Foot Artillery Battery	4+	-	-	Medium Artillery, +1 CD	Battery has 8 guns
2nd Hussars	4+	6	-	None	Large unit
2nd Hussars (½ Regiment)	4+	4	-	None	Two units
Uhlans	4+	3	-	Lancers	Small unit

As you can see, the troops are actually not all that good. They were conscripted and had little experience. Only the Jagers, cavalry, and artillery had any real experience. Nonetheless they will be easy to paint, have a bit of color (sky blue and yellow looks nice on black) and is a historical Division.

The infantry units will be six bases (even though DSLB only uses four) each of 16 figures (four strips). That makes each battalion 96 figures – an impressive amount of "mass" – which is exactly one Baccus pack. That makes each battalion about $11 (counting shipping). Carrying that forward, that means that a Division of about eight battalions, two cavalry regiments, and a battery of artillery will cost about $100. Although that may sound like a lot, understand that I am using big battalion sizes. In Polemos, Baccus' rules for 6mm, each battalion is one-quarter the size of this, so a Division would be somewhere around $25.

Well, I now all I need to do is pre-order them from Scale Creep Miniatures.