Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Guess Who?

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My newest unit. Top paper strength was 158. At 1:10 that's 15 or 16 miniatures. I'm adding more. There will eventually be three ranks of five miniatures each. If you want to guess, do so below clicking on the word "comments." Merci.
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8 comments:

  1. I'm guessing that it is one of the Gendarmerie sqds of which their were ten sqds as I recall. The pix are too small for me to see on my iPhone so I can't pinpoint the brand. Jackdaw or Suren perhaps?

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  2. I recognize those figures as being Eureka's Dutch cavalry for the WAS. I'm pretty certain they are painted as Gendarmes.

    I'm less sure about which company they are supposed to represent, but they appear to be the Gendarmes Anglais du Roi?

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  3. No clue, but they look great in their red uniforms and black horses with white "socks".

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  4. Agreed. I don't know who they are but they look great

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  5. Nice lookign unit but I really like the basing... :o)

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  6. Gendarmes de la Reine, according to Mouillard.
    Checked the Eureka site: Robert seems to be right on the spot (Eureka WAS Dutch).
    A very good-looking unit, anyway!

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  7. Well done Sirs!
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    French Gendarmes de la Reine (Queen)
    Eureka's War of Austrian Succession Dutch
    Painted per Mouillard.
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    Gendarmes Anglais is a singular good guess! The stripe on their belts were a darker red.
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    Trés bon et merci mes amis,
    Bill

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  8. With regard to your previous post about SYW French cavalry breastplates, is it not likely that in battle French Gendarmes wore at least a breastplate? Funcken shows a (WAS) Gendarme in campaign dress with breast- and backplate: this makes sense, the Gendarmerie de France (which in the wider sense includes most of the Household Cavalry) was the heir of the Compagnies d'Ordonnance. As such with a special tradition of 'extra-heavy' Horse: by contrast the whole 'regimented' cavalry (including the Cuirassiers du Roi) was deemed 'light cavalry'.

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