Saturday 8 September 2018

Halsinge Tremanning Regiment

The next unit of foot back from the basing department is a Tremanning Regiment. This could be any of the Tremanning regiments raised to fill the ranks as the main army was put through the meat grinder of the Great Northern War. In this case its Halsinge as I have the flags already from Warfare miniatures.   https://www.leagueofaugsburg.com/shop/products-subcat-23.html

The Swedish armies main recruiting process was that each group of farms or village furnished 2 uniformed soldiers in return for a certain amount of tax relief, these made up the Indelta or regional regiments. When the army needed to expand then "Third man" regiments were conscripted and sometimes even fourth man, hence Tremanning and Femanning.

Often these might have simpler less expensive uniforms, usually un-dyed grey wool. These could be faced in grey, yellow or blue mainly. I have faced this unit yellow and given them blue gaiters for no other reason than it looks good and they may have worn them. The usual pattern for gaiters would again be either grey, yellow or blue.
I wanted this unit to have a slightly more irregular look so a mix of hat tape and no hat tape, the grey is in a couple of slightly different shades, some of the gaiters are grey or brown ansd some of the waistcoats blue rather than buff. Not massive differences, hopefully just enough to provide some contrast.

Swedish officers often wore an all blue uniform rather than conform to the colour scheme of their regiment, given the bland grey of this unit I think blue would have been the officers choice and again adds a bit of irregularity and contrast.
Whilst not veterans these Tremanning units often had a cadre of experienced troops and usually still performed very well indeed, Stenbocks army at Helsingborg was mainly Tremanning and Femanning units and comprehensively beat the Danes. It does however allow me a couple of units I can downgrade slightly to address the in-balance in quality for certain games if required.
So thats Halsinge, more to come, probably two more units of foot before the Swedes are finally completed. The project has come a very long way and I am looking forward to doing a photographic review of the collection in the near future.

21 comments:

  1. Only 5 out of 22 regiments at Helsingborg were 3/5 mennig, but of course most of the army hastily raised and so the destinction been regularl and 3/5 mennig was kinda theoretical at that point.

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    1. Thanks Truls I have not looked into that deeply, I know that a lot is made of the hastily raised troops beating the Danes.

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    2. Helsingborg is the most "war of Spanish sucession" battle of the GNW, unlike the other battles, it wasn't the superior Swedish soldiers that won the battle, but Stenbock beating the Danes, the Danes were simply outgeneralled. Much like the French were against Marlburough.

      It's the most even battle of the war, if the Danish generals had kept a cool head the battle could have gone very diffrently, if the danes had moved their artillery, it could have ended very diffrentlly etc.

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    3. Didnt tenbock alos use the new artillery very well, very un-swedish of him!

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    4. Yes he placed 3pdrs between each battalion (probably smart as I doubt one on one the swdSwed could beat the Danish infantry) but had the danes not just left their artillery behind that Swedish advantage would have been neutralised)
      So the Danes were simply out generaled.
      They made atleast 4 major mistakes, they might have won if they only made 3.

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  2. Great work Roger, looks really good.

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    1. Cheers Skip, it is a pretty period isnt it?

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  4. Top notch job, what a beautiful unit!

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  5. Roger! I am delighted! Very well, but in my opinion Tremanning of the shelf had other flags?

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    1. I dont know much about the flags Aleksey I have bought these from Warfare on the assumption they are correct.

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  6. Roger,
    another great looking unit, I like the look you have got with the slight irregular look you have got with them.
    Mark S

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    1. Thanks Mark, I like it too but then couldnt decide if I had gone far enough appreciate the comments.

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  7. Lovely toys Roger...
    I’ve always liked the look of grey uniforms with yellow facings... it makes for a surprisingly colourful unit.

    All the best. Aly

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    1. Cheers Aly, I think the dashes of blue add a little something too. Appreciate it.

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