Russian Curassiers


My first attempt at Russian Cavalry gets added to the collection.  There are Blue Moon Russian Curassiers.  Basically, I bought two packs of cavalry and one pack of command.  This gave me enough figures for three 12 figure regiments, with three castings left over to spare.

The Russian army of the period lends itself very well to mass production as there is very little variation in uniforms.  Just as with the infantry the only thing that differs between regiments are the colors.

Prince Fedorovich Curassiers
For these I went with the same base color for all of the horses, and added variations with manes, blazes and stockings.  I plan on doing something similar for all of the regiments for quick identification.
Novotroitsky Curassiers
There were four regiments (16 squadrons) present on the Russian side for Zorndorf.  Depending on how we scale it, this either completes my needs, or I will need one more unit (Kazanskiy Curassiers) to finish the requirement.  I will probably use Eureka figures for that unit as I can purchase the figures individually.
3rd Curassiers


*addendum.  As I do more reading/research I am finding several peculiarities with the Curassiers.  For 1758 on the Prince Federovich  and 3rd Curassiers actually had breastplates.  The Novotroitsky and Kazanskiy regiments were still wearing their Dragoon uniforms and riding inferior mounts.  There were a total of 6 squadrons between the two of them and an additional 6 squadron of Dragoons present for the battle, so I will probably just replace both regiments with two double stands of Dragoons to reflect the small size of all four regiments.

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  1. DeanMDecember 29, 2017 at 8:07 AM

    Very impressive heavy cav!

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  2. Jonathan FreitagDecember 29, 2017 at 9:20 AM

    Based knee-to-knee, your heavy cav look awesome! You will be fielding your Russian Zorndorf before the spring thaw. In our games of Kolin and Mollwitz, we doubled each BMU (battalion becomes regiment and squadron becomes two squadrons). If we keep the same scheme, two bases of cavalry of six each equates to four squadrons. With that, four more cav bases will be needed to flesh out sixteen squadrons.

    Great progress!

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    1. DartfrogDecember 29, 2017 at 9:46 PM

      Kanzanskiy Curassiers it is! I will also need to come up with a plan for the Observation Corps as those Regiments were roughly twice the size of the others.

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    2. Jonathan FreitagDecember 30, 2017 at 10:23 AM

      Suffering under the inFLUence of the flu, my math was bad. If you already have 12 squadrons (6 stands) then only four more squadrons (2 stands) are needed.

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    3. DartfrogDecember 30, 2017 at 6:47 PM

      That works out well, so just the Kanzanskiy Curassiers. That will give me a chance to try the Eureka castings

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  3. Michal DwarfCryptDecember 29, 2017 at 10:39 AM

    Beautiful work!

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  4. GonsalvoDecember 29, 2017 at 8:31 PM

    This project is galloping along with the addition of these three fine regiments. Look out, Freddy!

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    1. DartfrogDecember 29, 2017 at 9:46 PM

      Thank you. Still a long row to hoe.

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    2. Jonathan FreitagDecember 30, 2017 at 10:25 AM

      Peter, Jake is the perfect accomplice in a project as you are witnessing.

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    3. DartfrogDecember 30, 2017 at 6:48 PM

      At least this time I would classify as a "witting" accomplice

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