This page 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 more 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 roughly based on some of the Austrian army that fought at Wagram and also Aspern-Essling. I orginally based it for Fast Play Grand Armee but we are now plying the full version, so I may need to reorgnaise some of the units and bases.
One of our first games of Fast Play Grand Armee, with French vs Austrians in a non historical scenario.
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A large game of Fast Play Grand Armee, with French vs Austrians and newly painted Prussians in a non historical scenario.
Click here to go to the game report and photos.
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.
Baccus Generals along with some Irregular French cassions and casualty figures from Irregular to add a bit of a diorama to the base.
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.
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.
Nicely detailed figures with and the Hungarians are a bit more colourful with their blue trousers and shakos.
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 .
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.
More nice figures from Baccus. This light Cav base contains Hussars but you could mix light cav types such as Hussars and Light Dragoons
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
This mixed brigade I painted to represent one of the advanced guard brigades used at Wagram. The base contains some of Baccus's Austrian light infantry in helmet and some light cav. For something a bit different I added a pontoon bridge from Irregular.
Irregular Miniatures
Huge range of Naploeonic figures for 6mm
Baccus Miniatures
Very good quality range of 6mm Napoleonics and my prefered supplier
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16th November 2009