"Other uses for 1806 Prussians" Topic

Good evening folks

A recurring theme of my 1/72 hobby is that I end up with tens, sometimes hundreds of extra figures.

In this newest instance, I have ended up with about 50 1806 jager for the prussians, for which a 16 man unit suites for black powder. (On a side note of anyone knows if they had more than one battalion that too would be useful)

Are there any other uses for them? Could I do some headswaps with the bicornes at least?

I know the Landwehr units tended to have all sorts of uniforms, but I haven't seen the bicorne listed.

Have also been toying with the idea of headswapping them with Airfix AWI Grenadiers to get revolutionary era brits.

Cheers

Tramp

Well would help a little swapping out heads and hats.
If short figures use as is and call them what you need them

They could pass as early Russian Jäger for the wars of the second coalition, or if you want AWI then why not Hessian jäger?

there were 3 battalions Prussian Jagers for 1806. These were mostly delt out by companies to support commands. The only battle that had a complete battalion was at Auerstadt. I'm unsure if they are similar to any other unit during that time frame. I game the 1806-1807-time frame but I haven't finished purchasing all my early Russians yet.

Forgive me for being unclear, I meant to say bicornes + airfix bodies can get French Revolutionary war brits (or a later British militia for an invasion of Britain wargame). The Russian Jagers on the other hand are a good idea…

And the info regarding the number of Battalions does really help – I'm trying to figure out how to organise them in Black Powder, 3 smaller units I suppose is the maximum historically acceptable range.

Mind you I try to keep my hobby in the range of "historically passable" (British grenadier companies in bearskin, overlapping units with bicorne and shako in the french armies), not accurate.

Cheers this is great so far

use them for the Mexican-American War, Great for U.S. State
troops.

I know some gamers used them for Napoleonic Spanish before anyone was making 1/72 Spanish in bicornes.

The problem is the belly box, which is wrong for so many troops that these figures could otherwise represent. You could trim it away but you'd need to add a cartridge box in the usual place on the right hip. The bicorn also has those funny little pompons on the corners that shout out "I'm 1806 Prussian".

Or you could mount them as single figures and use them for skirmish games.

You could use them for Hesse-Darmstadt. They had afaik Prussian uniforms

the Prussian Jäger had 12 companies all equipped with rifles, they were either used in companies attached to advance guards or also in bigger units – they took part at all battles and clashes in the 1806 / 07 campaign. Also as above mentioned at AuerstAEdt. Jäger from Hessen Kassel could be an alternative.

Hesse Kassel Jager Corps from "Armée Hessoise" by JH Carl & JC Muller
link

The Spanish option can include garrison troops in the Americas such as Florida.
Early Latin Revolution.
Other colonial garrisons over the world. A nice variation of uniforms possible.