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.