Can't help with Nobby's tea drinking habits but on the matter of guidons/ standards:

If you don't add them will it irk you every time you use them?

If you don't add them will you notice after the first couple of times they are on a table?

If you don't add them will other people notice?

If you don't add them will the people who notice care?

If the answer to all these questions is no, don't bother.

If the answer to the first question is yes, add them.

If the answer to question two is yes, add them.

If the answer to questions three and/ or four are yes, get less observant and/ or less picky opponents and don't add them.

YMMV

I won't miss them, but I will be wistful for them.


I'm adding. All cavalry have them?

Not always 

Quote from: Last Hussar on 05 August 2022, 02:47:35 PMI won't miss them, but I will be wistful for them.

And I'd make a point of honour to remind you everytime the appeared on the table!

See! Better friends, that's the answer!

QuoteCan't help with Nobby's tea drinking habits but on the matter of guidons/ standards:

If you don't add them will it irk you every time you use them?

If you don't add them will you notice after the first couple of times they are on a table?

If you don't add them will other people notice?

If you don't add them will the people who notice care?

If the answer to all these questions is no, don't bother.

If the answer to the first question is yes, add them.

If the answer to question two is yes, add them.

If the answer to questions three and/ or four are yes, get less observant and/ or less picky opponents and don't add them.

YMMV

As someone who has known Last Hussar for some time, I can answer for him

Q1: If you don't add them will it irk you every time you use them?

A: Yes it will.

Q2 If you don't add them will you notice after the first couple of times they are on a table?

A: Yes he will.

Q3 If you don't add them will other people notice?
A: We will now he has mentioned it.


Q4 If you don't add them will the people who notice care?
A: No not at all, but we are now obliged to mention it at every possible opportunity. 


If the answer to questions three and/ or four are yes, get less observant and/ or less picky opponents. - I am afraid thats not one of the options he has available.   

Guidons will look pretty.

THERE WILL BE BLOOD... flags. I mean flags

THERE WILL BE FLAGS.

Get on with it then!   

Painting Wurttembergers atm

Cavalry forward by Last Hussar, on Flickr

Wurttemberg by Last Hussar, on Flickr

Württemberg by Last Hussar, on Flickr

As these are for Blucher I only need to represent them at approx 4000 men per unit, or 2500 for cavalry, so only 3 units.

Next will be Westphalia, Saxony or Bavaria; need to look at what figures I have left on hand. Then a decision about what to buy from Walt, over and above another pack of Cuirassier.

    

Really nice.

Good stuff

Love the purple there! Very nice

Purple?

I accidentally used a darker blue on stands 7 and 8, which I did later, though this was the colour I actually wanted! I think "purple is the phone camera trying to do different blues.

The lighter blues faded quite quickly, literally a day. I am now wondering if the paint pens are on their last legs.

Quote from: Last Hussar on 14 August 2022, 07:46:21 PMPurple?

I accidentally used a darker blue on stands 7 and 8, which I did later, though this was the colour I actually wanted! I think "purple is the phone camera trying to do different blues.

The lighter blues faded quite quickly, literally a day. I am now wondering if the paint pens are on their last legs.

It might be a camera artifact but yeah - those infantry look very purple!

I assumed it was some funky uniform choice to show how spiffy and steadfast they were (not)

Very impressive .

Bavarians started.

Due to the unusual way (for the French army) the Bavarians were constituted, I think 6 Blucher bases, each with 2 stands Infantry, 1 cannon (attached artillery) and 1 Cavalry (to show 'Mixed') is needed, with 1 base of Artillery.

I threw the question open on TMP, because the Nafziger seems to indicate 3 infantry, 3 artillery, which felt wrong/silly.

So done helpfully quoted a different source.

Bavarian infantry finished. Need 6 cavalry stands, 1 per base, and 9 (YES 9!); 1 per base, then 3 for the artillery base.

The Bavarians had a LOT of artillery!

Looking at Saxony next. 3 Infantry, 1 Cavalry, 1 Artillery. Will need to buy men in bicorns, as just found out didn't have Shako until 1810. That's 2 packs infantry, 1 cavalry (enough for 2 bases in Blucher, and 1 canon. With the cuirassier I need to complete the Imperial Guard, that's a tenner, plus I want some stands.

Might ask my brother to order them for Christmas.

Bavarian Cavalry started tonight, then labelling bottom of bases of Württemberg and Bavaria to remind me who is who!

I need to start putting flags on French.