How many flags in an 1809 Austrian Infantry Regiment

[Zippee]

As you have 3 sub-units, you could have a single 'regimental' command group of a flag, officer and drummers and when some oik comments claim it's actually a battalion deployed in divisions.

Or you could suck it up and provide one flag to each unit like it should be.

2 flags though would just be wrong, so that's probably what you should do, thus ensuring some know-it-all will take delight in pointing your ignorance out to you in detail and provide you with a legitimate outlet for pent-up lockdown syndrome.

[Last Hussar]

Fahne is German for flags.

That means we are just using the English word for the Austrian name. 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Thanks all.

[Last Hussar]

To sum up. Lemmy

Two poles with squares of cloth are fine for a regiment.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Thank you.

[John Cook]

To sum up. Lemmy

Two poles with squares of cloth are fine for a regiment.

I'm sure you mean staffs, don't you.

[Last Hussar]

No, they're Austrian.

Poles,Czechs, Croats...

[John Cook]

I see.  Then you should have written it as "Two Poles...." with an initial capital letter, if you really meant the proper noun.  It is very important to get these thing right .

[FierceKitty]

My work here is done. I can now hand on the duty of irritating people with practical linguistics!

[John Cook]

My work here is done. I can now hand on the duty of irritating people with practical linguistics!

We could always form a tag-team.   

[John Cook]

Fahne is German for flags.

That means we are just using the English word for the Austrian name.  

We, however, are British, not some foreign Johnnies, and do things properly and, of course, German infantry do not carry a standarte

[FierceKitty]

Err...I'm not.

[John Cook]

My commiserations, it must be a heavy cross to bear

[FierceKitty]

A South African passport? You don't know the half of it!

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

The English, the English are best,
wouldn't give tuppence for all the rest,
it's not that they are naturally bad,
it's being forign that makes em so mad

with thanks to Flanders and Swan

[hammurabi70]

A South African passport? You don't know the half of it!

We cherish our ignorance.

For value the American passport is the most valuable; for versatility the British.  Thanks to the empire you can get into more countries without a visa than anywhere else.  Having a New Zealand passport is the most innocuous.

[Last Hussar]

A South African passport? You don't know the half of it!

Do you regularly get beaten up by James Bond for being rude to hotel staff?

[paulr]

...Having a New Zealand passport is the most innocuous.

I'm not sure whether to feel insulted or smug

[hammurabi70]

I'm not sure whether to feel insulted or smug

I think you can feel safe.   

[FierceKitty]

I get on well with most hotel staff, since I can usually speak their lingo.