Those are lovely!

Quote from: collegialhoagie on 03 June 2022, 06:27:16 AMHere's my first finished danish unit. It is supposed to be an army commander stand, and for the battle of Helsingborg it will be representing the Danish army commander Jørgen Rantzau with his staff.

Jørgen Ranztau (ca 1652–1713)
The Danish invasion of Skåne 1709-1710 was originally led by Christian Ditlev Reventlow (1671-1738), a distinguished general with experience from the Spanish war of succession, who fell seriously ill on the 27th of march. Command was then given to the Lieutenant general Jørgen Ranztau merely 14 days before the battle which would prove to be decisive for the entire danish invasion effort.

Rantzau himself was a experienced army officer to say the least, who began his military service before Reventlow was even born, serving abroad as well as in the Scanian wars. After Denmark's disastrous entry and swift exit from the great northern war (March 20th - August 8th 1700), he served in the war of spanish succession, most famously leading the allied cavalry vanguard in the Battle of Oudenarde.

The outcome of the battle of Helsingborg was a disaster for Denmark and spelled the end of invasion and any realistic dreams of reuniting Scania with the rest of Denmark. The army lost roughly one third of its men as dead or captured, and a further 3500 wounded. It also lost all its field artillery, and when evacuating the army out of Helsingborg, had to kill off around 6000 horses because they couldn't be transported out fast enough.

Several historians agree that Rantzau made two crucial mistakes while in command. Firstly, the lack of communication to the different sections of the army that he was ordering the right flank to advance resulted in the whole army advancing and partial re-aligning in front of the approaching Swedes, and the fact that he decided to take personal command over the right flank made him lose the overall picture of the unfolding battle, and compounding his earlier mistake.

Wonderful painting and I applaud your basing style - it really shows the figures off.
Keep the photos coming please.

Mark

Thank you for all the encouraging comments! I'm really enjoying the project and slowly chipping away the orde de bataille. I'll try out a game as soon as I can field a brigade level battle. I did order Twilight of the sun king yesterday. I'm curious on how they handle command friction, as I think this is what Gå På seems to do very well.

For now, another unit has been finished, namely a danish 3-pounder regimental gun. I'll write up something about the danish artillery when I start working on their heavy pieces that were well positoned on the Ringstorp hill on the danish left flank.





The back edge of the base is unfortunately pretty rough, it was cut from a larger mdf piece. I'll need to order some 30x30mm bases for the rest of the 3-pounders 

Lovely work once again .

    

Nice!

Twilight uses a concept of action tests for friction. From memory I think it's a 4+ on a d6 in most instances. The idea being that troops in good order can generally move forward fine but once you ask then to do something more complicated like cross a river, change formation or charge an enemy you require an action test. Commanders I think allow a certain number of rerolls on tests based in their level.

The other part of the system is around morale tests, where a number contributing factors feed such as number and position of the enemy, distance from friendly units, artillery fire, etc feed into the result.

It's quite a simple system but allows for a lot of tactical complexity and friction so you feel you're fighting the battle not fighting the rules and can really lay in the pressure on your opponent. 

I'd recommend joining the twilight groups.io as the author is very active and the group is often quick to answer questions. I had a few during my test games last year and he'd answered before I'd finished the game!

Nice work, looking great.

Wow! Georgous

This is still a work in progress but here is a draft version of the orders of battle for Helsingborg for the Twilight of the Sun King rules


Helsingborg, 1710

Can be fought in Regimental or Brigade scale. Numbers of units are in Regimental: Brigade. For the Brigade game only use the Army Commanders.

Swedish Army:

Army Commander: Stenbock (2)

Artillery: Trained Field Guns (Limbered)                    2:1

Right Wing: Meijerfelt (1): Regiment 5 units, Brigade 4 units

Elite, Galloping Horse, Determined (Life Guard)            1: 1 Small
Trained A, Galloping Horse, Determined (Mixed Life Guard/Queens)    1: Not used
Trained C, Galloping Horse, Determined (Queens Life Guard)        1: 1 Small
Trained D, Horse (Upplands Fem Cav)                    1: 1 Small
Raw, Galloping Horse, Determined (Adelsfan/Smalands Cav)        1: 1 Small

Centre: Stenbock

1st Line: Regiment 5 units, Brigade 3 units
Trained B, Ga Pa Infantry, Determined, Pikes (Elfsborg)            1: 1 Small
Trained D, Ga Pa Infantry, Large, Few Pikes (Upland/Smaland Fem)    1:1
Trained B, Infantry, No pikes (Saxon)                    1 Small: Not used
Raw, Ga Pa Infantry, Determined, Few pikes (Jonkopings/Kronobergs)    2 Small: 1

2nd Line: Regiment 5 units, Brigade 2 units
Raw, Ga Pa Infantry, Determined, Few pikes (Sodermanlands/Kalmar)    2 Small: 1 Small
Raw, Ga Pa Infantry, Determined, No pikes (Ostagota, Upplans, Vastmanlands)    3 Small: 1 Small

Left Wing: Burenskiold (1): Regiment 5 units, Brigade 4 units

Trained C, Galloping Horse, Determined (Vastgota Cav)            1: 1 Small
Trained C, Horse (Vastgota & Skanska Trem Cav)            2: 1 Small
Raw, Galloping Horse, Determined (Ostagota/Smalands Cav)        2: 2 Small

Danish Army:

Army Commander: Rantzau (1)

Left Wing: Dewitz (0): Regiment 6 units, Brigade 4 units

Trained B, Horse (1 & 2 Fynske, 1 Jyske, 3 Sjaell)        3 (1 is Small): 2 Small
Trained B, Dragoons (Bulow)                1 Large: 1 Small
Trained D, Dragoons (Sjaelland Land Drag)        1 Small: Not used
Trained B, Infantry (Lepels, Marine)            1 Large: 1 Small
Trained Field Gun (unlimbered)                1: Not used

Centre: Rantzau

1st Line: Regiment 5 units, Brigade 3 units
Elite, Infantry (Guards & Grenadiers)            2 (1 is Small): 1 Small
Trained B, Infantry (Jynske, Fynske, Dronningen)    3 (2 are Small): 2 Small
Trained Field Gun                                           1:1

2nd Line: Regiment 4 units, Brigade 2 units
Trained B, Infantry (Pr Hessen)                1 Small: Not used
Trained D, Infantry (Militia/Reserve)            3 (1 is Small): 2 Small

Right Wing: Rodsten (1): Regiment 5 units, Brigade 3 units

Elite, Horse, Small (Life Guard)                1:1
Trained A, Dragoons (Life Dragoons)            1 Large: Combined with Life Guard)
Trained B, Horse (1st Sjaell)                1: Combined in Mixed unit
Trained C, Mixed, Small (Combined Sjaell)        Not used: 1 Small
Trained D, Dragoons, Small (Sjaelland Land Drag)    1: Combined in Mixed unit
Trained B, Infantry, Small (Pr Christian)            1:1

Thanks for all kind comments! While summer has finally come to my part of Sweden, I've managed to put some hours into the hobby and finished another unit (see below)!

Quote from: Hwiccee on 13 June 2022, 12:08:46 PMThis is still a work in progress but here is a draft version of the orders of battle for Helsingborg for the Twilight of the Sun King rules

Thanks a lot Whicce, that looks super useful! Looking forward to see how they play out! Are there plans on publishing more GNW content for TotSK?



Originating from fänikor (roughly company size units) set up in Östergötland 1551, it was made into an indelt infantry regiment in 1685. In Swedish Pommerania at the start of the great northern war, it was transferred to Poland in 1702, and served in the royal army, taking part in the field battles of Holowczyn 1708 and Poltava 1709 where it was lost. It was reraised in Sweden and took part in teh battles of Helsingborg 1710 and Gadebsuch 1712, and capitulated after the siege of Tönningen.

It was led by the interim regimental commander lieutenant colonel Magnus Gripensköld. Differing sources put him as either 47 or 45 at the time of the battle. His grandfather Magnus Jespersson began as a common cavalryman in the Östgöta cavalry regiment in 1626, rising in the ranks and ennobled in 1665. Magnus became a career soldier at around 13-15 years of age as a volontär, and served abroad as a cadet in the Prince of Orange's guard 1681-1684. Returned to serve in the Östgöta regiment for the rest of his life. He died childless in 1712 on the border between Sweden and Norway.

    

collegialhoagie:

Yes more GNW material is on the way but probably not until next year. The plan is to have circa 10 GNW battles and around 5 Ottoman battles. Plus probably a few 'what ifs' - Marlborough vs Charles XII and a fictional clash between the Swedes and Danes & Russians after they invade Sweden in 1716 for example.

Before then there will be a new scenario book for the 'Divine Right' rules covering the wars between Sweden, Poland, Russia, the Ottomans, Cossacks and Tatars 1600 to 1670 or so. Another on the 'Western' wars 1648 - 1680 including the Scanian war.

There are also more SYW era scenarios on the way and a French version of this set. Along with a set of rules for the Napoleonic era.

Hwiccee, you are going to be busy then

Those look fantastic

Very nice indeed!