Reviewed by Pat Condray
These are delightfully well animated and fairly well proportioned, standing nearer 20mm than 15. However, to make up for it, the artillery pieces are in 10mm. In an earlier review of Clash of Empires (Austro-Prussian) I mentioned that the counters were big enough to mount figures on about a 1 to 100 basis except for the Austrian brigade artillery counter, which represents a single battery. That may be why the artillery is about half scale. There may be something to this, since Dick Bryant tells me they sent him a base counter with a bunch of little Austrians on it. By way of minor inaccuracies the Prussian cuirassier has an eagle on his helmet worn only by the guard in full dress, and the Austrian cuirassier has a full breastplate - discontinued in 1860 (the Austrian cuirassiers didn't attend the 1859 war). You can use the Austrian for a Bavarian. More Reviews
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