Austrian flags

nikgaukroger · Post by **nikgaukroger** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 6:42 pm

I'm sure I've seen some somewhere, but anyone know a source of flags (images or flag sheets) for the Austrians around the time of the War of the League of Augsburg/Nine Years War or the War of the Spanish Succession?

marshalney2000 · Post by **marshalney2000** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 9:35 pm

Nik, you should look at the Pike and Shot society book on the Austrian army which includes standards as well as uniforms.
Pricey but nice.
John

nikgaukroger · Post by **nikgaukroger** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 10:09 pm

marshalney2000 wrote:Nik, you should look at the Pike and Shot society book on the Austrian army which includes standards as well as uniforms.
Pricey but nice.
John

I found you can get it on CD from Baccus much cheaper

shadowdragon · Post by **shadowdragon** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 10:39 pm

nikgaukroger wrote:
marshalney2000 wrote:Nik, you should look at the Pike and Shot society book on the Austrian army which includes standards as well as uniforms.
Pricey but nice.
John

I found you can get it on CD from Baccus much cheaper

Yes, Austrian flags can be found on the CD from Baccus. "Uniforms and Flags of the Imperial Austrian Army 1683-1720" by Robert Hall and Giancarlo Boeri. It costs about 25 GBP for which you get 318 pages of information including 56 pages of colour plates showing various interpretations of uniforms, according to different sources, for ordinary soldiers, troopers and musicians plus flags - all by regiment. The text includes actions, where known, for each regiment as well. All of these CDs offered by Baccus are a fantastic source of information for the period.

Delbruck · Post by **Delbruck** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 11:30 pm

Some good Austrian info here:

http://www.xenophon-mil.org/milhist/aus ... ytable.htm

marshalney2000 · Post by **marshalney2000** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 3:00 pm

Nik, shame on you looking for a cheap alternative. You the Dan Brown of wargames publishing!!
John

timmy1 · Post by **timmy1** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 4:09 pm

I think Nik is just cheap...

However he does write better than Dan Brown (but then so do most 8 year olds...)

marshalney2000 · Post by **marshalney2000** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 9:08 pm

A sort of abbreviated Dan Brown.
John

nikgaukroger · Post by **nikgaukroger** » Fri Oct 21, 2011 6:47 am

Delbruck wrote:Some good Austrian info here:

http://www.xenophon-mil.org/milhist/aus ... ytable.htm

Thanks

yar68 · Post by **yar68** » Fri Oct 21, 2011 12:16 pm

Hi Nick try this link, the flags are from the WSS but I'm sure they will do.

http://www.warflag.com/flags/wss/wssaustrian.shtml

nikgaukroger · Post by **nikgaukroger** » Sat Oct 22, 2011 10:26 am

yar68 wrote:Hi Nick try this link, the flags are from the WSS but I'm sure they will do.

http://www.warflag.com/flags/wss/wssaustrian.shtml

Cheers.

nikgaukroger · Post by **nikgaukroger** » Sat Oct 22, 2011 10:28 am

shadowdragon wrote:
nikgaukroger wrote:
marshalney2000 wrote:Nik, you should look at the Pike and Shot society book on the Austrian army which includes standards as well as uniforms.
Pricey but nice.
John

I found you can get it on CD from Baccus much cheaper
Yes, Austrian flags can be found on the CD from Baccus. "Uniforms and Flags of the Imperial Austrian Army 1683-1720" by Robert Hall and Giancarlo Boeri. It costs about 25 GBP for which you get 318 pages of information including 56 pages of colour plates showing various interpretations of uniforms, according to different sources, for ordinary soldiers, troopers and musicians plus flags - all by regiment. The text includes actions, where known, for each regiment as well. All of these CDs offered by Baccus are a fantastic source of information for the period.

Got the CD thing morning - excellent service from Baccus - and it looks really good. The flags in the colour plates should scan nicely to print out at a suitable size for my figures.