Monday, 2 November 2009

Swedish infantry

Right, I've been bragging about the Swedes I've been painting, but haven't yet put up good pictures of them. Here's the first three battalions of Karl XII's army at Poltava. They're three of the five (technically, six, but I'm representing the two battalions of the Västerbottens regiment by a single one as they were only the size of one combined by the time of the battle) that ended up with General Roos in the losing battle at the redoubts and Yakovetski woods:

Dalcaria (or Dal) Regiment

Dalcarian (or Dal for short) regiment, first battalion.

Västerböttens regiment

Västerbottens regiment (two amalgamated battalions).

Närke Värmlands Regiment

Närke-Värmlands regiment, 1st battalion (the second went on to the main infantry line).

The figures are from [Musketeer Miniatures](http://www.musketeer-miniatures.com), the flags are hand painted (Dalcaria), Little Big Men (Närke-Värmlands), or scanned from the Höglund book (Västerbottens).

The figures for the next two battalions (Jönköpings and second battalion of the Dalcarian) have arrived last week, so they'll be slotted in the painting queue soon.

__Update__: corrected Västerbottens spelling.

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3 comments:

  1. Jonas2 November 2009 at 15:01

    Really good looking painting, you rarely see figures from "The great northern war". If you want some moore realism you could include some soldiers from Helsinge Battalion in the Dalecarlia regiment. They where thrashed in a previous battle and included in the crack Dalecarlia Regiment.
    Ps. Västerböttens should be spelled Västerbottens.

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  2. Robartes2 November 2009 at 15:23

    Hi Jonas,
    thanks for the heads up on the Västerbottens spelling - I corrected it in the entry. As to the various regiments that were disbanded after Lesnaya, at the time I painted these figures I did not have a reference as to which regiments were subsumed into which others. With the new Nick Dorell book, I now have one such reference so I might use it in further battalions.
    BTW, do you know what the deal is with the Dalecarlia / Dalcaria / Dal confusion? Do you know which name was used at the time?

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  3. Koen4 November 2009 at 16:28

    Hi Bart,
    The Swedish name for the regiment is Dalregementet (the Dal regiment - Swedish has the definite article attached at the end of the noun ;)). Most regiments in the Swedish army were named after the province (län) they were raised in, like Sörmlands regementet, Västerbottens regementet, Närke-Värmlands, etc.... This regiment comes from the Dalarna * ("The Dales") region, so gets shorted to Dalregementet. The other terms are funny English translations, often based on the Swedish term Dalkarlarna ("guys from the Dalarna"). The correct English translation would be the Dalarna or Dal regiment.
    * Dalarna is a region in Middle Sweden, to the Northwest of Stockholm, around lake Siljan - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalarna
    Cheers
    Koen
    PS To see the other end of the spectrum, and as a shameless plug, here's a link to some pics of my 6mm GNW troops, based for Polemos: http://dalemunk.blogspot.com/search/label/GNW

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