The French are coming!

Heroics & Ros have their SYW and Marlborough Wars ranges back on sale, so I placed my long planned order for enough French to do Rossbach. This is phase 1.  I intend to expand the numbers when I have painted and based the first batch.

Phase 2 will be to build up enough for Fontenoy, which will give me the excuse to get some redcoats. Then all being well, Phase 3 will be the additional amount needed for Minden. Of course I'll have to sort out some Dutch too for Fontenoy. Prussians will stand in for the minor German states at Minden and Rossbach (as well as 'playing themselves'). Austrians will be, well, Austrians, and any white coated Reichsarmee (if there were any at Rossbach).

Most but not all of the 6mm range

I've mainly ordered SYW Austrians for the French, but have included some Marlburian period French for variety. I especially want the dragoons in those 'bedcap' style forage hats. Just because I like them. The Marlborough and Staff pack has been ordered because I want the Frenchies to be more fancy looking than the Germanic types.

Maybe it's mad doing another white army at this scale - it probably won't be easy telling the difference from the Austrians. But at least the French army included red-coated Swiss (Rossbach) and Irish (Fontenoy) and light-blue-coated Germans.

As a special treat, because I've been disciplined all these years, I've ordered myself a pack of Bosniaken (the Prussian fake Balkan lancers). Their track record as a unit was rubbish, but they look good!