New Units for the Waterloo Unit.bmp: Cuirassiers and Carabiniers

[Uffz_Feuerhake]

Hello again, gents,

between duty and family and some free days :smoke: I have found time to make the French Cuirassiers and Carabiniers of 1815 for the Waterloo Unit.bmp.

http://www.gamesquad.com/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=1818

Have fun with it and greetings again,

Andreas

[Uffz_Feuerhake]

Hello FM WarB,

as a addition to my response of your comment in the download-section the pics of the contemporary examples:
(It is not possible to attach a file in the comments part of the download-section )

http://www.gamesquad.com/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=1818

Example Elberfeld1 in a unofficial field version
Example Elberfeld2 in a "going out" version

of the carabiniers.

Greetings

[FM WarB]

Andreas,
Thanks for the reply.
Those blue jackets could even be leftovers from 1809, before the carabiniers became armored. Due to the haste with which l'armee du nord was raised, there were alot of non regulation uniforms. The white just looks sharper, before it gets muddied or bloodied, which is why Naoleon's 1807 flirtation with white coats for the infantry was so short lived.
Warren

[Uffz_Feuerhake]

The white just looks sharper, before it gets muddied or bloodied, which is why Naoleon's 1807 flirtation with white coats for the infantry was so short lived.

Yes, I think the time before a parade must have been the hell for the soldiers with a white coat.... I have read about historic tricks with chalk and the test of the officers with a little slap against the chalk-coat .....

::):):):rolleyes::):) ............ :hissyfit: Sergeant