For the first figure review, the rating staff decided to look at the latest releases in the Old Glory 15mm range for the 19^th Century. All of the staff had decided to expand the collection of armies for this period by investing in a large number of Austrians for the Seven Weeks War of 1866. These will be joining the existing armies of Prussians and French acquired for use in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. We like big 15mm armies, well except for Terry and Bruce, who cling to the 25mm scale, for those massive period battles. Our future scenarios will cover the Prussians and Austrians, and possibly French and Austrians for their 1859 battles.

The figures reviewed were as follows:
Austrian Infantry Advancing
Austrian Infantry Command
Austrian Light Infantry (jaegers)

Although the results are suspiciously similar, all the reviews were done independently and then collated for this issue.

	Reviewer 1	Reviewer 2	Reviewer 3	Average Score
Appearance	4	4	4	4
Animation/Pose	5	5	5	5
Quality of casting	3	3	3	3
How well they would look painted	4	4	4	4
Variety of Poses	5	5	5	5

Rating System: 1 = very poor, 2 = poor, 3 = fair, 4 = good, and 5 = excellent.

Other comments:

Reviewer 1

Other than a few figures heads that look like flounders, the line is very nice. A bit thin in comparison to Falcon, or Essex, but their height is right on. They are far superior to earlier efforts by OG in this era, and I am pleased to hear that Jon and Perris Cooley are redoing the entire earlier offerings to meet this new standard they have created. Casting quality is still an issue with OG’s 15mm’s, where weapons and bases can snap off rather easily. Quality control seems also to be somewhat of an issue, as we received several figures where the casting had no head!!! These are the best Austrians I have seen in this scale, and hope that subsequent figures are up to this same standard.

Reviewer 2

I like this new range of Austrian troops put out by Old Glory, though I have only seen the infantry and Jaegers so far. There are a great variety of poses and the animations of the figures are quite well done. The amount of detail on the figures is good and while I have yet to paint any of the figures I think they will look very good.

I have two complaints about the range. One, some of the figures can be a little flimsy. I already have several infantrymen whose heads have come off from the their bodies (Ichabod Crane served in the KuK forces!?!). The rifles of the infantry and Jaegers can also be easily broken. Second, some of the poses are a little flat that is the heads can be almost two-dimensional. However, this is only for a few of the poses.

Overall, I think that the range is more than adequate and I will buy the artillery figures when they come out. These are the first decent range of mid-19^th century Austrian figures that I have seen since I have become interested in this period, and I have looked at the offerings of several companies. Gott in himmel, I have seen some bad castings prior to this Old Glory range. With Bob Burke’s expansion and errata to "They Died for Glory" (rule book) just around the corner these figures have made a timely appearance.

Reviewer 3

OG has really got to do something about its packaging, which can result in damage to the figures. The figures are thin and not robust enough to survive unscathed when packed in such large quantities.

The Cooley brothers have shown a flair for designing good active figures. The mix gives the impression of battlefield poses rather than parade ground or static poses. Please make the next batch a little sturdier to avoid the two-dimensional look and help them survive multiple handling!