SYW some questions about armies to begin

[venotaku]

Hi guys, I'm really new with SYW period, I only know about Federick the Great so I would like making an order of some prussian, but I see 2 different army packs for prussians and I don't know which choose.

Another question is about a nice enemy army to play againts the prussians, I was thinking about Austrian or French army, but I'm not so sure. Austrians have 2 army packs as well as prussians, so again I don't know which would bes the best to begin with.

I intend to use these 2 armies with the rules Might & Reason at the begining and maybe another one later

Any advice that you can give me will be appreciated.

Thanks.

[lentulus]

There were two flavors of Prussian line infantry.  Musketeers wore tricornes, fusileers wore a casque that looked like a short grenadier mitre. Your finished Prussian army should have some of each, but I would start with a Tircorne army pack; it's the Prussian uniform most often shown in movies and illustrations.

Austrians also had two sorts of "line" infantry.  Hungarian infantry wore trousers, "German" (everybody else) wore breaches and gaiters; there are other differences of course.  I'd go with the non-Hungarian to start.


Lots of detail here:

http://www.kronoskaf.com/syw/index.php?title=Main_Page

Or make it up and go with ImagiNations - lots of folks do!  I did http://enlightenmentimaginings.blogspot.com/

[republic of tolworth]

Nice site Lentulus 

At least with Imagi-nations our uniforms are never wrong 

[lentulus]

At least with Imagi-nations our uniforms are never wrong 

... and our OBs are always accurate   

[venotaku]

Thanks for the tips lentulus. Like you, I prefer the tricorne hat in the prussian army.

So maybe in the future I'll buy the other 2 packs for the Prussian and Austrian army to have some variety in both armies.

I need to look now some references to paint these guys.

[Rob]

Try here for uniform references:
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgtitle_tree.cfm?title_id=269277&level=1&tword=

You will find all the nations there. The Prussians (and all the other Germans nations) are within the "Germany" tab.

Cheers, rob 

[venotaku]

Great site for references Rob, Thanks!

[FierceKitty]

Go for the Austrians or Russians if you want an opposing army which has a fair chance. The French army was in a decline between Saxe and Napoleon, and off-hand I can't think of one battle where they gave Fritz any trouble.