Opinion: What do you like about 8147 Nassau Infantry?

I have to concur with Alan - in addition, I love the style of sculpting and feel of the figures. One of your best (and you've made some doozies).

Alan and Wayne nearly said it all; great sculpting, very good body proportions and a good number of figures for firing line, advancing and marching.

But also, there are flanquer figures that actually work perfectly with the firing, loading, advancing and marching figures. The grenadiers are covered by an earlier set or I'm sure you would have provided more poses of those as well. Nice command figures too, a really complete single set that could only be improved by being 3 seperate MAC sets. (actually I don't need MAC for the Nassauers the single set fits my needs).

But the thing I like absolutely the most about the Nassau Infantry set is the fact that they are Nassau Infantry! Who would ever have given us these excellent troops if you hadn't.

The above posters have said it all easy to paint, full army in a box unusual subject that nobody else covers its got it all it is also good value close to 100 soldiers for around £9.00 a bargain.

With how flimsy the plastic can be, I think it is easier to remove the musket from a Marching, or Stand at Attention model and replace it with a brass rod. But they could always make a model with a hole  through the hand so you  can putt the rod through it, but since it is an easy conversion I don't think its a priority.

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If you wanted to redo the minor nation boxes into the MAC format, but you don't want to have 100 models in those boxes, you could use a set of wargaming parameters that all of the boxes have to cover to make an historically accurate unit.

If we take the Black Powder game as an example (and personally in your shoes I would take this ruleset to base the box sets under as it is a rather generic set of rules) it states that units have to have a 240mm frontage (this is up to the players to decide really, but this the example it gives for unit frontages as that's six 40x40mm bases for each unit). This frontage width can be applied to many other rule sets and if players want more or less models in their units they can do so.

For a Marching pose French battalion, this look like this:

1) Between 16 - 24 Line Infantry, 4-6 models to a base (though 6 models seems to be the most common number as 4 models to a base looks too open).
2) Between 4 - 6 Grenadiers (again 6 models per base is the most common)
3) Between 4 -6 Voltiguers (again, 6 models per base is the most common)

So an ideal French Line infantry box set would have 24 Line Infantry, 6 Grenadiers and 6 Voltiguers. Now I understand that the Voltiguers and Grenadiers more or less had the same uniforms, except for headgear, to the Line Infantry and by 1808 both of these units were changed to using the Shako just with different coloured trimming, so the box set could just have 36 models of Line Infantry and be done with it and it is up to the customer to paint them correctly. Though 36 extra heads can be added for 1805 Infantry, or the other way around, like you have with your newest French sets.

The same logic applies to the action box set and the command box set does it's own thing.

The best thing about this period is that you can apply these numbers to most minors that were France's satellite states and allies as they were forced to adopt the French organisation for their units. For these guys though, you may not want to make the three boxes for the MAC format, and I can understand that, so perhaps the bigger box is necessary. In this case, just have 36 models in marching poses (at least 2 poses per unit type), 36 models in action poses (as many as you like) and a few command poses so it is an all in one box set. That's 72 models plus whatever number of command poses you want to add.


This does get tricker when you look at other nations that don't follow the French model (British having 10 companies per battalion for example) but it is still doable. For example, for the Prussians the Marching box you already have out does them perfectly as they to fit the Black Powder rule set and be accurate, they would have 4 companies per battalion. To represent this situation all you need is a 60x40mm base and put 8 models to a base. So in this case, all you need is 32 models and you have an historically accurate Prussian Musketeer / Fusilier Battalion for 1813. To make 1806 Pruusians you just need to replicate this box in those uniforms.

The Austrians and Russian I believe follow the same organisation, but add Grenadiers companies. So for the box sets, switch out 8no. of Line Infantry and throw in 8no. of Grenadiers and job done. Full battalion, no mess or need to get several boxes to do that one battalion in the poses you want.

I love the Nassau set. If only there was a similar Brunswick set :0)

My final (maybe) word on the subject:

I Like HaT’s Nassau Infantry
(with apologies to Dr. Suess)

I like HaT’s Nassau Infantry
They look so very good to me
They’re not too big, they’re not too small
I really like them one and all.

They’re posed so neat, they look just right
I like them morning, noon, or night
Marching, shooting, grenadiers
Among plastic guys they have no peers.

A great idea to knock your socks
An entire little army in a box
Yes, I think the Nassau guys are grand
But I still don’t like green eggs and ham!

Pat, the Nassau elites (i.e. those wearing epaulettes) could pass as French elites wearing the surtout with the lace knot removed, but none of the figures are suitable for fusiliers, which had a different arrangement of their crossbelts. They could be converted into several varieties of troops from other small German states, though.

very nice figures. they almost call to mind Revell in their "thiness". another nice feature is that they are produced in a pleasing green plastic. no painting needed
if you want them ready to game with. same goes with the Peninsular British. the red plastic is helpful. those that paint will anyway. if you are planning to produce some
figures for the Russians that opposed Napoleon, the same green plastic would suit them well. thanks for the question!

Nothing, not a fan of the set, planned to buy it but had a look at it at PSR, don't know what the fuzz is about, not the best sculpts in any way though you get an army which I suspect is appealing to some. The Peninsular British I get, they're fantastic, own that one.