TYW Dragoons

[Invisible officer]

Another weekend, another TYW unit ready. The Imperial Dragoon regiment Mérode.





A unit that got the most awfull reputation for marauding, the name of the Obrist led many contemporary authors to play with the words Merode and marodieren. Calling his men Marodebrüder.

Jean de Merode started his military service in Spain but changed to the Imperial forces, fighting at Prague 1620. He rose to nobility in 1622 (Reichsgraf). 1623 Obrist, he often led small campaigns himself. Taking the island Fehmarn and many towns. 1631 Generalwachtmeister. At Lützen he covered Wallenstein's retreat.
He was kia in 1633 in the small battle of Oldendorf (Hessen)

[BigMike]

Great stuff IO, How handy that the dragoon models have all of that stuff which they have 'acquired' modelled on them, just like your notorious unit...

[Invisible officer]

The sculptor did a great job on these.

[BigMike]

It's the bits of lamps and chickens and stuff which i really like!

[mikeland]

Brill painting IO... Knew you'd like em! Thanks for the background info too!

[grant]

Great stuff as always IO!

[Invisible officer]

Thank you all.

I like to paint the colours , as usual I did it on metal foil. I'm not sure about doing the dismounted ones with the same. May be I use a generic company one. So they can double as another regiment.

I have a nice flag model for a Saxon unit. So a unit for my Swedish forces may follow sometime.

[Helen]

Lovely work on your dragoons. What miniatures are you using?

Cheers,

Helen

[Invisible officer]

Lovely work on your dragoons. What miniatures are you using?

Cheers,

Helen

Thank you Helen.
The Warlord ECW ones, only alteration was to give all the big hats that most of the continental Dragoons wore . Again the Warlord ones from the box and more (like done at the foot before) made from metal foil and putty.

They are lovely sculpted miniatures, only drawback are the standard warlord horses, not the typical weak dragoon nags. Well, I guess Merode's men would have marauded some good cavalry horses.

[Helen]

Thank you for your reply and information. Much appreciated.

Cheers,

Helen