For my Napoleonic armies I am using historic orders of battle. My 1813 Austrians are based on elements of the 1st Army Abteilung (1st Corps) of the Austrian Army assigned to the Army of Bohemia. Specifically the 1st division which is a sort of all arms advanced guard with grenz, cavalry and artillery, and a brigade of the 3rd division with five battalions and a battery. These will be expanded with more Hapsburg heroes eventually.

All of my Austrians are painted by Nigel Fun-nel, dragoon horses by Craig Watterson, with the remaining horses, artillery pieces and basing by me.

Apart from a few Foundry casualty figures, Front Rank were the source for everything else. All flags by GMB Designs.

The menacing Albert Gyulai Infantry Regiment advance through the shrubbery..

The first two battalions of the Reuss-Plauen Infantry Regiment. I also need the third battalion to complete the historic brigade - got the figures, just need the paint.

Two battalions of the Albert Gyulai Infantry Regiment along with the three battalions of Reuss-Plauen form a brigade in the 3rd Division. The first battalion carries the white Leib-fahne while the second battalion carries the yellow Ordinarfahne.

I have the two battalions of the Deutsch-Banat Grenz Regiment as part of my 1st Division. These are both modelled as a firing line by mixing in all the available poses the Front Rank supply for Hunagrian infantry in shako. These were purchased before Front Rank released their Grenz figures, and at the time I was under the perhaps mistaken illusion that the Grenz eventually wore the standard infantry shako. Anyway they are what they are now - in my little army the Grenz have replaced their battered Grenz shakos with line shakos as an expedient move in the field!!! Both battalions have a yellow Ordinarfahne, and five points for spotting the missed mould line on one of the shakos - doh !!!

A 6-pdr foot battery as represented by two cannons and crew. Note the two uniforms - red faced for the artillery gunners and blue faced for the 'handlanger bataillonen' (labourers, carpenters, and protection) personnel.

The first division contains two battalions of Grenz, a regiment of dragoons, a 6-pounder battery and these, the Hessen Homburg Hussars. They have had a charmed life on the gaming table so far.

The Reisch Dragoons. My newest unit and now the veteran of two games. In its first game it watched proceedings with interest but disdained getting involved. In the second it was pushed back by a unit of elite French bullies … errr, I mean Mounted Carabiniers … but managed to avoid fleeing the table (we called time before they could again cross sabres).

Uniformed as per the Foot Artillery but note the 'sausage seat' on the gun trail on which the gunners rode. I'm not sure if the seat was removed when the gun was unlimbered, but as you can see I've left it on.

The gentleman in red (with a white pelise though you can't really see it!) is a general officer of the Hungarian light cavalry. He has obtained for his use a trumpeter of the Kaiser Franz Hussars. These hussars are normally dressed in dark blue and a uniform source I use alleges that trumpeters of hussars uniformed in dark blue favoured their musicians in light blue … so here he is. Did someone say that the Austrian army is boring white?

An infantry brigade commander urges on the men, while his ADC looks on.

Another infantry brigade commander. This way to Leipzig.