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In Development / Re: [NW][M] Liberty or Death - A War of Independence Modification (Update #2)

« on: November 16, 2013, 10:48:56 pm »

has the dev team ever considered to have the Commander in Cheifs Guard as the elite unit for the Congressional forces?
the unit was Washington's personal guards regiment that fallowed him everywhere and they were the best disciplined, drilled and the best shots of the army. Because I think Washington asked that each regiment give him 10 of there finest men to form this unit.

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In Development / Re: [NW][M] Liberty or Death - A War of Independence Modification (Update #2)

« on: November 16, 2013, 10:33:34 pm »

I just want to say the 17th Light dragoons and the British Legion were two separate units. Tarleton commanded the British Legion and the 17th Light Dragoons were a separate unit but those two unit did serve together.

17th Light Dragoons

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Tarleton's British Legion of dragoons

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In Development / Re: [NW][M] Liberty or Death - A War of Independence Modification (Update #2)

« on: November 15, 2013, 05:52:13 pm »

-The Marines were not royal unit 1804(if you are a royal unit you have blue facing the marines didn't have blue facings till after 1804)

In the interest of nit-picking even further, I have to point out that the Marines were granted the 'Royal' title on 29 April, 1802. The order to adopt blue facings came through on 6 May, though it stated the new uniforms weren't to be adopted until 4 June to celebrate the King's birthday.

Another thing is that they're called the "1st Battalion" here, but British marine divisions simply had companies which weren't organised into battalions. No ship was allocated more than a company (they were allowed one marine per gun, plus an officer staff) so a battalion served no purpose. Sometimes temporary battalions were formed when several companies were serving on land together, but it wasn't a permanent establishment. There were three semi-permanent battalions formed in the Napoleonic era that wound up serving in the War of 1812, but they were quickly disbanded. In short, there may have been Marine battalions (there were two at Bunker Hill), but they was no "1st Battalion".

ok shoot me I was off by 2 years

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In Development / Re: [NW][M] Liberty or Death - A War of Independence Modification (Update #2)

« on: November 14, 2013, 01:21:05 am »

The British should have armed every man with a drum, so that the Americans would have thought that the British were a massive Yankee tattoo of drums and fifes.

If you trying to think that every British drummer was wearing a red coats faced blue then your wrong. Only the Royal regiments aka the regiments that have royal blue facings had red coat faced blue. All the other regiments that were faced yellow, white, orange etc... were the opposite to. For example the 9th regiment of foot were faced yellow to the musicians coats we yellow faced red. also when it come to regiments like the 33rd foot they have redcoats and red facing so the musicians had white coats and red facings.

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In Development / Re: [NW][M] Liberty or Death - Regiment Reservations!

« on: November 14, 2013, 01:07:42 am »

Germanic Regiment that served in America with the British During the American Revolution
I will provide what Germanic state they came from also

Also the regiment are name with state name first then fallowed by their units name like for example Braunschweig Infanterie Regiment von Riedesel


Hessen-Kassel

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Grenadier Battalion von Linsing
Grenadier Battalion von Block/Lengerke
Grenadier Battalion von Minnegerode/von Loewenstien
Grenadier Battalion Koehler/Graf/Platte
Infanterie Regiment Leib
Infanterie Regiment Wutginau/Landgraf
Infanterie Regiment Prinz Carl
Infanterie Regiment von Donop
Infanterie Regiment von Mirbach/Jung-von Lossberg
Infanterie Regiment von Trumbach/von Bose
Fusilier/Infanterie Regiment Erbprinz
Fusilier Regiment von Dittfurth
Fusilier Regiment von Lossberg/Alt-von Lossberg
Fusilier Regiment von Knyphausen
Grenadier Regiment Rall/von Woellwarth/von Trumbach/d'Angelleli
Garrison Regiment von Wissenbach/von Knoblauch
Garrison Regiment von Stein/von Seitz/von Porbeck
Garrison Regiment Buenau
Garrison Regiment von Huyne/von Benning
Feld Jaeger Korps
Artillery Korps

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Hessen-Hannau

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Von Erbprinz Regiment
Feld Jaeger Korps
Frei battalion

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Braunschweig (Brunswick)

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Infanterie Regiment von Riedesel
more to be added later

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Anspach-Bayreuth

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Waldeck

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Anhalt-Zerbst

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Hanover

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I received this information from a friend that's the go to guy for everything and anything that includes the Germanic unit that served in the war. So my knowledge is only as strong as the information he gives me. He also has been researching and manufacturing Germanic kits and uniforms from rev war for reenactors and museums ever since the 1960's so he knows a shit load of information and he hand makes Germanic miter caps as well.

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In Development / Re: [NW][M] Liberty or Death - A War of Independence Modification (Update #1)

« on: November 13, 2013, 04:01:58 pm »

Update #1 - The Beginning (21/7)

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Update #2 - Continental Line Infantry [made by Raddeo] (28/8)

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Continental Line Infantry

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The Drummers for the Americans actually had reversed colors so the coat would be red and the facings blue
Correct standard Musicians Dress

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In Development / Re: [NW][M] Liberty or Death - A War of Independence Modification (Update #2)

« on: November 13, 2013, 03:54:42 pm »

I must nit-pick on 4 things on the British unit list

-The 16th Were Light Dragoons not Heavy Cavalry
-The 17th were Light Dragoons but they served with Tarleton and his cavalry unit in the southern campaign with Cornwallis but Tarleton was in command of his own horse regiment which was called the British Legion which was a Loyalist Cavalry unit.
-The 60th Royal American Regiment was a loyalist unit but a regular British Battalion unit and would not be classified as Light Infantry. I would suggest using the 40th Light Foot or the 2nd Battalion of Light Infantry or Cpt/Lt Fraser's Company of Select Marksman(armed with muskets) or butlers rangers(armed with muskets and rifles)
-The Marines were not royal unit 1804(if you are a royal unit you have blue facing the marines didn't have blue facings till after 1804)

Sorry for nit-picking but I had to correct these mistakes and provide the facts

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In Development / Re: [NW][M] Liberty or Death - A War of Independence Modification (Update #2)

« on: November 13, 2013, 03:37:21 pm »

I thought I would add this list to help with the British regiments that served in the revolutionary war and the correct secondary name.
Types of unit wither it be cavalry, guards, rifle, light, or battalion and if they are regulars, highland, or provincial.
Cavalry Regiments

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16th Queens Light Dragoons
17th Light Dragoons

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Royal Artillery Battalions

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3rd Battalion
4th Battalion

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Guards

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combined brigade of the three foot guards rgts(1st,coldstream,3rd)
Brigade of Guards consisting of 50%1st 25%coldstream 25%3rd having the Battalion consist of about 1000 men

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Regular Battalion Regiments

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3rd (The Buffs)
4th (The Kings Own)
5th (Northumberland)
6th (1st Warwickshire)
7th (Royal Fusiliers)
8th (Kings Regiment)
9th (East Norfolk)
10th (North Lincoln)
14th (Bedfordshire)
15th (York East Riding)
16th (Buckinghamshire)
17th (Leicestershire)
18th (Royal Irish)
19th (1st York north Riding)
20th (East Devonshire)
21st (Royal North Fusiliers)
22nd (Cheshire)
23rd (Royal Welch Fusiliers)
27th (Inniskilling)
28th (North Gloucestershire)
29th (Worcestershire)
30th (Cambridgeshire)
31st (Huntindonshire)
33rd (1st Yorkshire West Riding)
34th (Cumberland)
35th (Dorsetshire)
37th (North Hampshire)
38th (1st Staffordshire)
40th (2nd Somersetshire)
43rd (Monmothshire)
42nd (Royal Highland Regiment)
44th (East Sussex)
45th (Nottinghamshire)
46th (South Devonshire)
47th (The Lancashire)
49th (Hertfordshire)
52nd (Oxfordshire)
53rd (Shropshire)
54th (West Norfolk)
55th (Westmoreland)
57th (West Middlesex)
59th (2nd Nottinghamshire)
60th (Royal American Regiment)
62nd (The Whiteshire)
63rd (West Suffolk)
64th (2nd Staffordshire)
65th (2nd Yorkshire North Riding)
69th (South Lincolnshire)
70th (Surrey)
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71st (Frasers Highlanders)
74th (Argyll Highlanders)
76th (Macdonalds Highlanders)
80th (Royal Edinburgh Volunteers)
82nd (Duke of Hamilton)
84th (Royal Highland Emigrants)
Volunteers of Ireland became the 105th in 1782
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In Development / Re: [NW][M] Liberty or Death - Regiment Reservations!

« on: November 13, 2013, 02:16:29 am »

I thought I would add this list to help people with finding regiment names that served in the revolutionary war and the correct secondary name.
Types of unit wither it be cavalry, guards, rifle, light, or battalion and if they are regulars, highland, or provincial.
Cavalry Regiments

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16th Queens Light Dragoons
17th Light Dragoons

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3rd Battalion
4th Battalion

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Regular Battalion Regiments

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3rd (The Buffs)
4th (The Kings Own)
5th (Northumberland)
6th (1st Warwickshire)
7th (Royal Fusiliers)
8th (Kings Regiment)
9th (East Norfolk)
10th (North Lincoln)
14th (Bedfordshire)
15th (York East Riding)
16th (Buckinghamshire)
17th (Leicestershire)
18th (Royal Irish)
19th (1st York north Riding)
20th (East Devonshire)
21st (Royal North Fusiliers)
22nd (Cheshire)
23rd (Royal Welch Fusiliers)
27th (Inniskilling)
28th (North Gloucestershire)
29th (Worcestershire)
30th (Cambridgeshire)
31st (Huntindonshire)
33rd (1st Yorkshire West Riding)
34th (Cumberland)
35th (Dorsetshire)
37th (North Hampshire)
38th (1st Staffordshire)
40th (2nd Somersetshire)
43rd (Monmothshire)
42nd (Royal Highland Regiment)
44th (East Sussex)
45th (Nottinghamshire)
46th (South Devonshire)
47th (The Lancashire)
49th (Hertfordshire)
52nd (Oxfordshire)
53rd (Shropshire)
54th (West Norfolk)
55th (Westmoreland)
57th (West Middlesex)
59th (2nd Nottinghamshire)
60th (Royal American Regiment)
62nd (The Whiteshire)
63rd (West Suffolk)
64th (2nd Staffordshire)
65th (2nd Yorkshire North Riding)
69th (South Lincolnshire)
70th (Surrey)
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Hear down the regiments were disbanded after 1783 & 1784
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71st (Frasers Highlanders)
74th (Argyll Highlanders)
76th (Macdonalds Highlanders)
80th (Royal Edinburgh Volunteers)
82nd (Duke of Hamilton)
84th (Royal Highland Emigrants)
Volunteers of Ireland became the 105th in 1782
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In Development / Re: [NW][M] Liberty or Death - A War of Independence Modification (Update #2)

« on: October 05, 2013, 10:25:12 pm »

These pictures were commissioned by the US Army, they're pretty close to the actual thing if not spot on.

yes but what year were they commissioned?
Because you would be surprised at how much information has been found since 1975

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In Development / Re: [NW][M] Liberty or Death - A War of Independence Modification (Update #2)

« on: October 05, 2013, 10:11:44 pm »

lolk

In all seriousness, if you guys need anymore info on the AWI I can probably figure it out. I already shot Tomo a site I found with literally all the uniforms a man could ever want, may as well post it here also.

http://www.srcalifornia.com/uniforms/uindex.htm

There is one problem with this. Most of these picture and research was made in the mid 1900's and since then a lot more updated information has been found. But it has mostly been discovered by the reenactment units that portray the units instead of historians. I would suggest to base your uniform on reenactors uniforms rather then artist renditions. But the only artist that I would say has it basically 90% correct is Don Troiani

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In Development / Re: [NW][M] Liberty or Death - A War of Independence Modification (Update #2)

« on: October 05, 2013, 05:51:45 pm »

ok will do

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In Development / Re: A War of Conquest | Regiment Reservations |

« on: October 04, 2013, 10:40:40 pm »

Regiment Name: Régiment de Languedoc
Faction: French
Class: Line/Light
Steam Name: DukeOfWellington


Languedoc Regiment during the French and Indian war fort Ticonderoga garrison

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In Development / Re: [NW][M] Liberty or Death - Regiment Reservations!

« on: October 04, 2013, 10:09:21 pm »

change my regiments the 41st welch to the 42nd Royal Highland Regiment

nice choice the 42nds campaign dress is one of my favorite changes in during the war they had nice service record during the war to my knowledge

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In Development / Re: [NW][M] Liberty or Death - A War of Independence Modification (Update #2)

« on: October 04, 2013, 09:42:23 pm »

iam not trying to be an ass iam just trying to help with historic accuracy