I recently found out that there used to be a Lager named after the famous Swedish Field Marshal that is one of my favourite soldiers from the Great Northern War era, namely Stenbock (there is a very nice online article about him here).

 

I could not find out who the brewers were but stumbled across a few others with slightly different spelling.

Stepherd Neame used to brew a beer called Steinbock Lager that was described as “…a light, crisp, refreshing lager with an underlying sweetness, a slight floral tang and a clean finish”.  It is no longer produced (see more here).

Monsteiner Steinbock is another Lager.  This one is made in Switzerland with nice artwork on it (more here).  And another one, but I digress…

I really wanted to talk about Laagers, defined by Wikipedia as…

A wagon fort is a mobile fortification made of wagons arranged into a rectangle, a circle or other shape and possibly joined with each other, an improvised military camp. It is also known as a laager (from Afrikaans) (English: leaguer).

At the battle of Kalisz the Pro-Swedish Polish-Lithanian Army established a Laager outside the town (of Kalisz) with a square of Wagons and some quickly raised earthworks. To represent this I used some of the Wagons and tents from Baccus and made a small (fully modular) representation of the Camp.

The Saxons

The Saxon contingent are all Cavalry and are commanded by Augustus the Strong Supported by General Brandt.

 

Dragons

The Dragon units (all red uniforms with facing/cuff colours in parenthesis) –

Leibregiment (white), Milkau (yellow), von der Goltz (black)

von Brause (lemon yellow) and von Schulenburg (straw)

Cuirassiers

The Cuirassiers units (all red uniforms with facing/cuff colours in parenthesis) 

Chevaliergarde/Garde du Corps (blue/red/white), Leibregiment (white), Kurprinz (yellow), von Damitz (Bleumourant), Königin (straw)

Kurprinz (yellow) ,von Eichstädt (Coffee Brown), Gersdorff (grey) and Prince Alexander (green).

That leaves us the Russian contingent of 32 dragoons that I packed before I took any pictures. I suppose you have to come to the Salute show to see them!

A Map!

At Salute we are the Wyre Forest Wargames Club and we are in location GG15 – it is just below the upper red G (in the circle) on the floorplan/map of the show. It is only 2 weeks to go and if you do go, come by and say hello. Further details on the show and how you can get tickets can be found here.

On the Lager thread I did find a nice little bottle at the Tank Museum last week (more here) – it is made by the Dorset Brewing Company (DBC) and is called Landship.   The name comes from the Landship Committee that was established in February 1915 by Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, with the purpose of developing armored fighting vehicles to use on the Western Front.  The work culminated in the development of the first tanks.  Tank, by the way, was a code name for the vehicles.

I found an inspirational review of this beer on the net (link here) and decided, for research purposes, to have a go myself and I do agree with the sentiment of the review.  If nothing else it is a cool bottle.

/ Until next, Cheers and do not drink (too much) whilst gaming!

Appendix – Below is a little summary of the units that will be present on the table, 207 bases in total including small bases for leaders and artillery.  The basing are in line with the Polemos Rules where a base is about 200-300 cavalry (about 2 squadrons) or 400-600 (one battalion) infantry. In Twilight of the Sun King two of these bases, in general, forms a fighting unit.  Leaders are Poor, Average or Excellent, The second value is the tempo contribution as per the Polemos rules.

Kalisz
Side	Element	Bases	Type	Description	Class.	Quality
Pro-Swedish	Swedish Contingent	1	Leader	Mardefelt	CiC	Ex:4
Pro-Swedish	Swedish Contingent	1	Leader	Krassow	Cmdr	Av:2
Pro-Swedish	Swedish Contingent	2	Infantry	Pommerska	GP	T / Dt
Pro-Swedish	Swedish Contingent	1	Infantry	Swiss	GP	T
Pro-Swedish	Swedish Contingent	1	Infantry	French	GP	T
Pro-Swedish	Swedish Contingent	2	Infantry	German	GP	T
Pro-Swedish	Swedish Contingent	4	Cavalry	Södra Skånska Cav	GH	T / Dt
Pro-Swedish	Swedish Contingent	3	Cavalry	Bremiska Dragoon	GH	T / Dt
Pro-Swedish	Swedish Contingent	4	Cavalry	Verdiska Dragoon	GH	T / Dt
Pro-Swedish	Swedish Contingent	4	Cavalry	Pommerska Dragoon	GH	V / Dt
Pro-Swedish	Swedish Contingent	1	Gun	Light Gun	LG	V
Pro-Swedish	Swedish Contingent	1	Gun	Field Gun	FG	V
Pro-Swedish	Pro-Swedish Polish	1	Leader	Potocki	Cmdr	P:2
Pro-Swedish	Pro-Swedish Polish	1	Leader	Lubomirski	Cmdr	A:1
Pro-Swedish	Pro-Swedish Polish	16	Cavalry	Pancerni	EH	T
Pro-Swedish	Pro-Swedish Polish	4	Cavalry	Hussar	GH	V
Pro-Swedish	Pro-Swedish Polish	2	Cavalry	Jazda Lekka	LHx	T
Pro-Swedish	Pro-Swedish Polish	2	Gun	Light Gun	LG	T
Pro-Swedish	Pro-Swedish Polish	1	Gun	Field Gun	FG	T
Pro-Swedish	Pro-Swedish Lithuanian	1	Leader	Sapieha	Cmdr	A:1
Pro-Swedish	Pro-Swedish Lithuanian	4	Cavalry	Petyhori / Pancerni	GH / EH	T
Pro-Swedish	Pro-Swedish Lithuanian	2	Cavalry	Hussar	GH	V
Pro-Swedish	Pro-Swedish Lithuanian	2	Cavalry	Jazda Lekka	LHx	T
Pro-Swedish	Pro-Swedish Lithuanian	3	Cavalry	Dragoon	D	T
Anti-Swedish	Saxon Contingent	1	Leader	Augustus the Strong	CiC + Monarch	A:3
Anti-Swedish	Saxon Contingent	1	Leader	Brandt	Cmdr	P:1
Anti-Swedish	Saxon Contingent	1	Cavalry	Chevaliergarde / Garde du Corps	H	E
Anti-Swedish	Saxon Contingent	1	Cavalry	Leib	H	E
Anti-Swedish	Saxon Contingent	2	Cavalry	Kurprinz	H	T
Anti-Swedish	Saxon Contingent	2	Cavalry	Damitz	H	T
Anti-Swedish	Saxon Contingent	2	Cavalry	Konigin	H	T
Anti-Swedish	Saxon Contingent	2	Cavalry	Eichstadt	H	T
Anti-Swedish	Saxon Contingent	2	Cavalry	Gersdorff	H	T
Anti-Swedish	Saxon Contingent	2	Cavalry	Prince Alexander	H	T
Anti-Swedish	Saxon Contingent	1	Cavalry	Leib	D	T
Anti-Swedish	Saxon Contingent	2	Cavalry	Milkau	D	T
Anti-Swedish	Saxon Contingent	2	Cavalry	Goltz	D	T
Anti-Swedish	Saxon Contingent	2	Cavalry	Brause	D	T
Anti-Swedish	Saxon Contingent	2	Cavalry	Schulenburg	D	T
Anti-Swedish	Saxon Contingent	1	Gun	Light Gun	LG	T
Anti-Swedish	Russian Contingent	1	Leader	Menshikov	Allied Cmdr	A:4
Anti-Swedish	Russian Contingent	1	Leader	C Avalry Commander	Cmdr	P:1
Anti-Swedish	Russian Contingent	1	Leader	Cossack Lord	Cmdr	A:3
Anti-Swedish	Russian Contingent	1	Leader	Kalmuck Lord	Cmdr	P:1
Anti-Swedish	Russian Contingent	2	Cavalry	1: Moskovski (542)	D	T
Anti-Swedish	Russian Contingent	2	Cavalry	3: Vladimirski (551)	D	T
Anti-Swedish	Russian Contingent	2	Cavalry	4: Pskovski (548)	D	T
Anti-Swedish	Russian Contingent	2	Cavalry	6: Novgorodski (544)	D	T
Anti-Swedish	Russian Contingent	2	Cavalry	7: Troitski (543)	D	T
Anti-Swedish	Russian Contingent	2	Cavalry	8: Astrakhanski (550)	D	T
Anti-Swedish	Russian Contingent	2	Cavalry	9: Siberianski (546)	D	T
Anti-Swedish	Russian Contingent	2	Cavalry	10: Smolenski (558)	D	T
Anti-Swedish	Russian Contingent	2	Cavalry	11: St. Peterburgski (547)	D	T
Anti-Swedish	Russian Contingent	2	Cavalry	13: Vjatski (554)	D	T
Anti-Swedish	Russian Contingent	2	Cavalry	14: Nizhni Novgorodski (553)	D	T
Anti-Swedish	Russian Contingent	2	Cavalry	15: Yaroslavlski (592)	D	T
Anti-Swedish	Russian Contingent	2	Cavalry	18: Ingermanlandski (565)	D	T
Anti-Swedish	Russian Contingent	2	Cavalry	19: Nevski (573)	D	T
Anti-Swedish	Russian Contingent	2	Cavalry	21: Ryanzanski (574)	D	T
Anti-Swedish	Russian Contingent	2	Cavalry	25: Vologodski (576)	D	T
Anti-Swedish	Russian Contingent	22	Cavalry	Kalmucks	LHf	T
Anti-Swedish	Russian Contingent	15	Cavalry	Cossack	LHx	R
Anti-Swedish	Russian Contingent	2	Gun	Light Gun	LG	T
Anti-Swedish	Anti-Swedish Polish	1	Leader	Siemianski	Allied Cmdr	P:3
Anti-Swedish	Anti-Swedish Polish	1	Leader	Rzewuski	Cmdr	P:1
Anti-Swedish	Anti-Swedish Polish	1	Leader	Smigielski	Cmdr	A:1
Anti-Swedish	Anti-Swedish Polish	16	Cavalry	Pancerni	EH	T
Anti-Swedish	Anti-Swedish Polish	4	Cavalry	Hussar	GH	V
Anti-Swedish	Anti-Swedish Polish	5	Cavalry	Jazda Lekka	LHx	T
Anti-Swedish	Anti-Swedish Polish	4	Cavalry	Dragoon	D	R
Anti-Swedish	Anti-Swedish Polish	4	Cavalry	Dragoon	D	T
Anti-Swedish	Anti-Swedish Polish	3	Cavalry	Horse	H	T
Anti-Swedish	Anti-Swedish Polish	2	Gun	Light Gun	LG	T
Anti-Swedish	Anti-Swedish Polish	1	Gun	Field Gun	FG	T