Soldier King parade - Arcadia

 Another of the kingdoms from the boardgame, Arcadia. The heraldry from the game is a black lion rampant on gold/yellow. Very early sketches determined how this army would look, influenced by Neil Cogswell's Wurtemburg army clothed in yellow (as per 1752 uniforms), Prussia and the Dutch.

The Army a bird's eye view

King Ronalf

His heir the lisping Prinz Ruprecht

Army Commanders L to R: High Constable Erzherzog Ferdinand Lautenzug, Ewald Hertzpresse Landgraf Weinsberg, Manfred Sonnenblumme Herzog Landsberg Graf von Grunstadt

Corps Commanders L to R: Graf von Zauche, Graf von Fellbach and Graf von Springe

Division / Column commanders

Royal Horse Guards regiments I to IV

Royal Foot Guards regiments I and II

Morbach and Waldrum Dragoons

Yellow and Black Hussars

Standing Grenadier regiments I and II

Line Infantry regiments all named for locations: Kreutz, Jettinger, Grunstadt, Iphofen, Kitzengen, Ingelfingen, Ammersee and Gottschee

Marine and Foreign regiments

Light Infantry Kanarian Volunteers and Jager Korps

Artillery

I must confess a certain favouritism or bias here; in a long forgotten playthrough of the game, I had  Arcadia. I designed them with massed guard heavy cavalry and veteran infantry and recall a "battle" in which the guard cavalry made a charge across a river and with outrageous good dice luck smashed the opposing army (identity long forgotten).

The uniform designs came easy from very early on; who could resist painting a whole army in yellow? What could be more Imagi-Nation?

Added to which I managed to replicate in Fimo a personality figure modelled on a picture in "The Wargame" of what was labelled as "Graf von Grunt" but which we now know to have been no less than General Trinksblut und Eisenessen.......my "Grotesque" is the Graf von Grunstadt.....no less fond of a tipple than von Grunt.

Should I ever get a campaign going, I shall have to allow the dice to fall where they may, but will always have something of a soft spot for the Arcadians.....