The Wurttembergers at Wagram and Borodino for AOE/V&F in 20mm

 

I collected a small Wurttemberg force from Hat during the Covid days. I think my first seriously painted Napoleonics were some Esci Austrians painted as Wurttembergers maybe 40 years ago. Then these went to a friend´s house when Hat released their own boxes. 

These are the three boxes of Hat Wurttembergers: one box of cavalry with 12 figures; one box of artillery with 4 guns (only 3 are necessary) and one box of infantry with 100 figures. After looking for the OB of the Wurttemberg contingent during the Wagram battle (they were near Vienna, guarding comunication lines and thus they didn´t participate in the battle) I divided them into three brigades of infantry (one of them of Jägers), one cavalry brigade and three batteries of artillery. At Borodino the contingent was much smaller but still included men from all three arms. 

The blue figures are Bavarian leftovers from StreletsR turned into Wurttembergers as 8 figures were still missing.

A good thing about this army is that the Wurttembergers fought in two lines, even if they also knew how to do it in three lines. This saves at least 40 figures as I place 6 figures in three lines for most of the Napoleonic armies.

Th 2nd and 4th IR were used to provide figures for the two line infantry brigades. 

The StreletsR Bavarian figures had a 1mm slice of the Raupenhelm cut out and a bit of GreenStuff was used for the tip of the crest.

The Bavarian artillery figures are the best of the three Hat boxes together with a nice gun divided into several parts. 

The horse artillery limber is scratch built: Irregular Miniatures wheels; wood parts from EverGreen plastic card, converted figures from Revell, Esci and StreletsR and horses from Valiant IF8 infantry cart given to me by the great Colin Rumford from Rapid Fire! fame (together with some other 200 sprues!).

If you want to avoid this trouble you can go to Franznap but prepare to open your wallet. The good thing about Franznap is that you will get first class figures, probably the best around. 

The Jägers form the 3rd brigade. The individual figures are for another set of rules were they can be used as this is not the case of Age of Eagles (AOE) or Valour&Fortitude (V&F) which are brigade level games. 

The cavalry is represented by the König Chasseurs à Cheval regiment. I couldn´t find any information about a flag for these troopers but I added  a pink one to go along with the facing colors. 

Next: The Essling granary and more Austrians.