Blucher was insane; he believed a French grenadier had impregnated him with an elephant. The king of Prussia was asked why he made a madman comander in chief; he said because he beats Napolean (8 times before the 100 days).

Officially the Landwehre didn’t carry Colours but they made their own. Painted on cloth, some embroidered, but most not.

Fantastic Waterloo campaign commentary.

This is a fantastic set. If I wasn’t so damn slow at painting the British starter, I’d definitely get this, too. But at the rate I’m going, I’ll be painting one army for at least 8 months. Not happening

18:30 "and their own sticks". Cracked me up! XD

Again great stuff and the history chat is great for novice on the subject like me 👍

The lance was dropped by most European nations around 1600, as the effectiveness of pistols were much greater and the ranks increased from one or two to much deeper formations. Except for the poles, who kept their lances and thinner formations. Over the next two centuries the armour got less and less and the sword was used more. The tactical formations went from 6 to 8 deep to thinner formations of three ranks. The lance was still not reintroduced, mostly because it was not in fashion. The (freNch) cavalery was much more formed like the Hungarian hussars, their sabbres were adopted, it not their traditional lance and pistol and carbines were added. The poles and their lances sided with Napoleon and their performance made the lance fashionable again. During bad weather (read the muskets could not fire) the lance outranged the bayonets of the musket, so they could beat the German square formation. (I would need to look up which battle this was) So it was basically, that the longer pointy sticks perfomed better, when the shooty stick count not fire,where a sword would need to get much closer.

Good unboxing, with the usual bonus history lesson. 👍👍👍

Fascinating stuff chaps, thanks! It certainly added to my knowledge of Waterloo, which admittedly was mainly based on on the ABBA song up until this point. This is too diddy for me, but I expect it looks great when all painted up.

Don't forget to give the boys a like 😁

Great reveiw and historical discussion! For a $100 start set it seems ok vaule wise to not the best but ok.

Really like the nuggets of historical info in your videos ! Lovely minis too

I've been very tempted to get my hands on some of these, your videos are making it harder to resist 😆

I really hope they do other armies like Austrians or Russians

Great review, learnt so much from this.

Good solid review well done chaps

Awesome look guys,I'd like to see a Austrian starter set

Very good information 👏👏

Nice unboxing

I have the French and British Black Powder starter sets. All figures look the same to me. Unless you want to paint them, you can fortunately tell them apart due to the fact that the British are all in red and the french are all in blue.

Do you ever find when building an army to buy a second box or buy the more unit targeted boxes. These large boxes look very cost effective.

Downside with flags is the omission of any of the East Prussian infantry regiments. They could have done so easily as well, the French banner sheet is larger, side by side they could have kept the same size paper and added the missing units on. Strange decision in my mind. Unless they will bring out another flag sheet that is.

Britain supplied many of the Reserve regiments

Is this a one and done? Because I'm so keen to get this and the commanders

No Prussian guard regiments at Ligny, Wavre, Plancenoit or Waterloo. A ording to any OB that I have.

Are these 28mm

Your camera and sitting arrangement has me nonplussed . I thought is was different houses via zoom

Anyone tried converting these to Russians? Need some help converting the dragoons to something for them

You really need to read up more on the Confederation of the Rhine, better to say nothing than total nonsense!