Napoleonic Basics Austrian Specialist Infantry
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- In the second part of our look at Austrian Infantry we discuss Jaeger, Grenzer and Landwehr. At the end we also take a look at flags of Austrian infantry (including line and grenadiers), mainly because I forgot to do it last time!
Thanks for watching, stay safe and see you all soon!
Tim
The Girardoni air rifles were so effective that the French had a standing order from napoleon to shoot any soldier on spot if they carried on.
The reason why they stopped using them was the incredible high price and training needed to use and service them properly. It's pretty difficult to find enough good soldiers with shooting skills and the technical knowledge of a watch maker.
It was just more efficient to manufacture 1000 muskets instead of 100 rifles that only very few soldiers were capable to use competently.
Fun fact:
the Lewis and Clarke expedition had one and it saved them from a lot of trouble with the natives.
They would tell them it's a magic gun and proved it with shooting rapidly without gun powder. 😁
Apothecary white contrast paint over wraithbone primer, perhaps with a quick highlight of a pure white, makes for a very good white thats very quick in my opinion, for the Austrians.
Absolutely! Apothecary White is absolutely essential for Napoleonic painters imo, I love it!
Very interesting. I learned a lot there. Thanks for posting. 👍
Great video. I enjoyed it immensely as I painted some Hungarian infantry. Thanks.
nice video, appreciate that you are covering austrians, they are quite neglected. keep up...btw although your visual accompaniment is improving ;) i have quite substantial amount of hi-res pictures of uniforms (not just napoleonic) from various artists, contemporary and modern. been interested in uniformology my entire life, so if you would need some pictures for your videos let me know and i can pick some for you
That'd be awesome dude. If you've got any good Austrian cavalry ones you can send them to my FB page!
@@NapoleonicWargaming will dig up something :)
New Favorite Quote "You either got good, or you got dead."
0:26 I can only imagine what is going through the heads of those Austrians.
Probably something along the lines of
"Where there is one hussar, there are many hussars"
thank you THANK YOU
Nah man, thank you for listening!
A fantastic video! Very educational and inspirational for getting more Napoleonics painted. Great work
hey...
I am just getting into Napoleonic miniatures;
I have a doubt: what weapons would a tyrolean jäger officer carry??
thanks
Since you mentioned covering the Ottomans, could you also cover the Adriatic front, the Ionian Islands and their garrison of the era (Russian, French and British), which were like a war academy for future Greek revolutionaries (in 1821)
I'll certainly look into it. The main problem is the lack of information in English.
Another enjoyable and well done episode! Cheers mate.
I really like your videos. Pity you didn't add a bit on the Hungarian Insurrectio though. Look forward to the next videos.
31:08 I have researched Wagram a lot, I would not say the Austrians were ‘smashed’ it was a close pretty equal slugging match, with the french taking unusually high casualties. Napoleon remarked to a diplomat ‘It is obvious you were not at Wagram’ when he mocked the Austrian army.
Okay thank you for the change as austrian history fan the inaccuracy reallllllllllly anoyed me, you just cant compare those two.
few notes:
- 5:50 i believe thats brunswick jager, not austrian
- looking at the pictures i realized one small detail worth mentioning, austrian&hungarian units tend to decorate their headgear with 3 oak leaves, ussually pinched behind the black&yellow cockade
Ah! You spotted my deliberate mistake! ;)
As far as i know, the oak leaves were worn in summer. In winter they were replaced with fir branches.
I am getting through them but keep going back to listen again, and again, how sad am i
Nothing wrong with that bud! Much appreciated!
I really enjoy your videos, I find them entertaining and informative 👌
Thanks buddy, that's really nice to hear!
Hi would be great if you link the first part of this series as you mentioned. Having trouble finding it
Hopefully you already found this, but here’s the first part: ruclips.net/video/CPKo6ifKJbw/видео.html
Wallachia is not Transylvania, Wallachia is the territory to the south & south-east of Transylvania. However, there could be people of Wallachian culture (what we would today describe as Romanians) from Transylvania. However, Szeklers, as you were talking about, are specifically a sub-group of Hungarians living in Transylvania. So these were DEFINITELY NOT Wallachians. Vlad the Impaler did own land in Translyvania since he his family were fugitives in Hungary from betrayals in Wallachia. I know that it is confusing, especially since Transylvania today belongs to Romania. But to make things clear, from the 800s to 1920 Transylvania belonged to Hungary (except when it was independent, though it was ruled by Hungarian Princes, and it had to do with the resistance against the Habsburgs).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sz%C3%A9kelys
Thanks for the info!
@@NapoleonicWargaming Very enjoyable videos though. Good pacing of information and good focus on what is relevant.
So where would the Czech Moravians be placed ??? With the Austrians ? The polish silesians ? Romanians ?
@@howardwayne3974 Bohemians and Moravians made up a good half or more of the 'German' Regiments. There were entire regiments made up of Moravians.
Edit - after a bit of Google search the following 7 Line Regiments were recruited from Moravia.
1st - Kaiser Franz
7th - Schroeder
8th - Huff
12th - Manfredini
29th - Wallis
40th - Mitrovski
56th - Colloredo
The opening picture of the video? These are my friends and brothers in arms! Reenactors of austrian feld-jägers from Czech republic! :3
Fantastic! Is there a unit or group I can credit?
@@NapoleonicWargaming I have no idea who was the photographer who took this photo and about groups, that is a bit more difficult. There are more than one group reenacting austrian feld-jägers and we all cooperate together when on the battlefield. Therefore it is hard to tell who is a member of that particular group. If I was you I would not bother crediting at all in this case. :D
Anyway if you are interested I am a member of "Feld-jäger batalion Nr6" and this is our FB page. Recently we have made some atmospherical photos monitoring the fight in Svíb Forest during the battle of Königratz 3.7.1866. We focus on 1866 as well as the Napoleonic wars.
facebook.com/6.prapor/
On white Leibfahne (flag) it was the Madonna and Child not Maria Theresa :D.
Also Hungarian and Croatian Insurrection were semi feudal militia and were even worst than Landwerh in 1809 campaigning.
You're absolutely right. I don't know why I said that! Brainfart I think!
Great video. Was wondering how one would go about converting Jägers from Perry Austrian plastics, seeing as Corsican hats come with the box for the Landwehr and the uniform is (mostly) the same. Could a standard musket be shaved down into a rifle? Thanks.
I've been thinking about this myself. I think the Corsican hats (thank you I've been thinking all day what are they called!) are for grenzer units, but they work for jaegers. I think that only a portion of the jaegers had rifles (I'll need to check though), so maybe a pack of them mixed in might work?
So excited! Loved your video on the Austrian Hungarian army! Was the best so far! Now going to enjoy this one! Thanks for posting, and so quick after the last video! Well done and thanks again :-)
Thanks dude!
@@NapoleonicWargaming I am sadly separated from my 1/32 Austrian army so work on some french and a mobile painting set is how I will spend my quarantine but cant wait to return to some Austrians especially after this video!
I just got some on ebay today! This series has really got me going!
Excellent video, as always. My only addendum is that people from Tirol are no less German than those of other Austrian regions of German ethnicity. With their own dialect, of course, such as every other region in the German states of the time. So, German national characteristics (if that really exists in that way in a culture with so much variety) would encompass both qualities. Austrians and Prussians are both German as well, yet regarded as quite different in their ways, so regional differences are certainly a thing.
Gotta be "that guy" sorry. That first picture is a reenactment group in square? They *REALLY* need more guys.
well thats "sad" reality of reenactment. there usually isnt more guys
Well, there's only one cavalryman. Maybe it's a rally square
Very nice videos. Well thought out and well presented. Thank you.
Not a big fan of Black Powder, but I am loving these videos. Furthermore, I am really enjoying your struggles with pronouncing all those German words - you do it better than me.
Hahaha. Its all part of the fun!
Superb video very informative.
i dont think the hat being cocked up was for aiming lol
Good video. I'm still hoping to find some information on the grenzers. I've seen some sources say they would have 2 3lbers in their battlions. But I've not seen any evidence of them being utilized. Any comments appreciated. As of now I don't intend to deploy any guns. But it would be interesting.
Also I hope that you will have some work on the Confederation of the Rhine armies. They should provide a bit of diversity to the usual French. I'm looking to do Hesse Darmstadt
I read that too, not 100% sure though. I remain suspicious of the effectiveness of battalion guns, as I think if the crew had just been firing muskets that would have been more effective than the 1 3pdr shot...
If you look at orders of battle for the 1809 campaign you'll find that brigades with Grenzer battalions also typically have an attached 3lb brigade battery. I believe that the Austrians, like many armies phased out the battalion guns and consolidated them into batteries by 1809. You'll see similar batteries appearing in the grenadier reserve as well.
Ottomans when?
Ones again great video
Great stuff once again!
The Austrian light troops are really interesting. You did a great job covering the Grenzers, Jägers, and Landwehr. Did line units also wear blue, brown, or grey trousers or was it only the light troops? Obviously the Austrians didn’t field light troops to the level that the French did, but in 1807 they had 1:3.5 (63 line regiments, 1 Jäger regiment , 17 Grenzregimenter). Do you feel like that was reasonable or still an insufficient number of light troops? What were the Insurrectio troops?
Thanks for the kind words!
The Austrians were a powerful army, Napoleon at least thought do, divorcing his beloved Josephine to marry an Austrian to get them on side. I think the light light troops, while excellent, were too few in numbers, especially in the theatres that had more broken ground (such as Italy).
The innsurrecto are an interesting bunch. I did a video on Andrea's Hofner, and I subsequently found the range of minis by Tren miniatures. These of course would be light troops, but again a lack of formal training would have hampered them.
Trousers wise as far as I'm aware the line u it's wore either white (if german) or blue (if Hungarian) trousers, though you could easily give some guys brown ones if you wanted!
Great quality 👍
Another great video. Really enjoyed it.
Cheers bud!
In the 20th minute of this video I believe you were trying to pronounce croatian town Otočac [ɔtɔ̌tʃats] where 2. Granzer regiment was from and Varaždin (we pronounce it: [ʋâraʒdiːn] at least wikipedia says we do haha).
Awesome overview! Seeya Sunday with the cavalry!