The Shiny Mod (AKA: Adding some variety and general fixes)

[Laudon]

I have prepared some summary of prussian infantry in the SYW period.
1) Musketeers, which should replace vanilla line infantry. There is not any logical system to the variations of prussian infantry uniforms from regiment to regiment (the devil is in the detail), so we would need probably to choose one regiment to represent all of prussian musketeers. The regiments differed in the position (and type) of lace on the coat, types of cuffs (prussian or swedish), color (and inclusion) of lapels, collar etc... Most prominent color of smallclothes (pants, waistcoat) was white or straw-yellow (differing from regiment to regiment), but there was also some rgt. with sulphur wellow and even orange or pink.

Some examples:

IR 1 Winterfeldt, from left to right grenadier (with musician´s tricorne musketeer), NCO, officer, musician.


IR 3 Anhalt-Dessau, later Kahlden


IR 4 Kleist

2) Fusiliers, which formed 16 regiments of infantry. They were established after conquering Silesia and recruited mainly from newly acquired territories. Alte Fritz believed, that they lack the loyalty and physical prowess of brandenburgers or pommeranians, but they served him just fine. They were issued with lighter muskets, but fought in identical manner to the rest of infantry. The small mitre cap ordinary fusiliers wore was probably meant as a form of morale support (to make them similar to the elite grenadiers).

Fusilier regiment no. 36


3) Grenadier battalions were filled with companies detached form their parent regiments, always two regiment to one battalion, on the campaign basis. So the grenadiers operating in one batallion wore different uniforms.

4) Freicorps was prussian answer to threat of austrian light troops after the silesian wars. These individual formations were meant mainly for light infantry duty, but Frederick thought of them lowly (considering them the scum of the earth) and sometimes deployed them in battles like cannon fodder. Individual freicorpses often included their own cavalry or artillery or even jaegers. The uniform of most of freicorpses was similar to musketeers, but smallclothes were usually light blue, but there are numerous exotic variations (La Noble jaegers in green with kasquet, Green Kleist kroaten etc, etc...). They really should be ingame as principal prussian light troops.

Example:
Freicorps Du Verger (Quintus Icilius)


5) Jaeger zu Fuss, armed with rifles, but I would limited them to one unit



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Ugh, long post. I would continue with militia and guards later.