Raise high ze black flags my children! - The Prussian Army of 1813-1815

A fantastic value kit from Wargames Atlantic, with some excellent sculpts. Each figure is 2/3 pieces, being the main body, head and a rolled greatcoat on some figures.  You get a full range of head options, 6 shakos and 6 caps, so you can either have all of one or a mixture.

Minimal mould lines with some quick clean-up make these a joy to work with, detail is very well defined and they are a pleasure to paint up. My only critism would be that the eyes are pretty sunken and set back in the face.

Each box contains 60 Prussian Reservists, if your playing Black Powder and have battalions of the “standardish” size of 24 you have a few options on how you can create your units.

My recommendation would be to split the box into 3 groups of 20 and add a plastic Prussian command from the Perry’s, (£2 for 4 figrues). That gives you 3 Batallions worth for £31 (RRP and excluding postage costs) and uses every figure.

Rules wise Prussian Reserves are not covered in Black Powder, however Albion Trimuphant (vol 2) covers the Prussian army in 1815 for the 100 days campaign. By this point the reserve regiments had been converted into line regiments as such using these as regular Line would make the most sense, alternative you could class them as Landwehr.

As you can see these fits in almost perfectly with the Perry’s Prussian range, the sculpting style is different being digital but fit in scale and size well and dont look out of place.

I’ve got some more command figures on order from Front Rank and Calpe for some additional scale comparisons.

All round a fantastic kit from Wargames Atlantic, this leaves me hoping they will be doing more of these “Army Builder” Napoleonics.