Hello George
I’ve been slowly building up some Marlburian forces for the past year, since returning to the hobby after several decades. I my case I’ve been concentrating on French forces circa 1707 with, so far, three battalions of the Irish Brigade (5 more regiments to go) and two French battalions. My battalions have 32 figures in them as I’m not using any particular set of rules to base them on, I just think that that number of figures looks right.
I’ve found out that you have to dig around a lot for on-line info about the armies of that time and there’s often conflicting information. I recommend having a look at the following: http://www.leadadventureforum.com , http://www.thewargameswebsite.com, http://www.leagueofaugsburg.blogspot.com , http://www.warsof louisxiv.blogspot.com . I’ve also found some extremely useful information on Pinterest too, much to my initial surprise (there is a good batch of information there on the Bavarians I’ve found)
From what little I know, where regiments were composed of more than one battalion, the first battalion carried the king’s (or appropriate) colour, and the other would have a regimental colour each. How often all three battalions were in action together I don’t know.
Luckily for me, the French and their Irish regiments didn’t seem to distinguish their grenadier companies so much, unlike other nations. I believe the grenadiers would take up position on the right of the line, so if you want to include them in your battalion that’s the place to put them. No reason not to brigade the individual grenadier companies together for specific tasks I think.
I hope some of that helps
Best wishes
Michael
