The Flags of Montrose's Irish Brigade (Part Two)

Having now gotten my hands on the excellent little booklet, Scots Armies of the 17th Century. The Royalist Armies 1639-46 by Stuart Reid I have spent the last few days working on the flags of Montrose's Irish.

The second sheet of wargame flags in the series is now ready and carries the image of Montrose and the quotation from,My Dear and Only Love, which will be a feature of these particular sheets of model flags to help identify them in listings etc.

This particular sheet includes the blue flag with the Virgin and child crushing the head of a serpent and the white flag bearing a blood red crucifix in the Irish style.

My reasoning for the Celtic Cross rather than a simple Crucifix is that having grown up near an  old Chapel in County Tyrone I remembered the  graveyard was full of Celtic crosses rather than the standard crucifix. So would it not make sense to have this style of Cross emblazoned on the Standard of Irish soldiers of the 17th Century. It certainly gives the flag a lot more flair.

You can see the previous sheet in the series HERE

The Flags of Montrose's Irish Brigade Now Available From Battle Flag

The latest sheet of 25mm wargame flags in Battle Flags English Civil War series of flags represents two of the banners carried by the Irish of Montrose’s Irish Brigade.


The first shows Christ carrying the Cross on a green field and the second the medieval pictogram IHS is emblazoned on a red field.


This is the first of six sheets of wargame flags covering the colourful flags and banners of Montrose’s Regiments of Irish.

1st Corps to Raise the Standard for Battle Flag at Phalanax Wargame Show

Battle Flag gets it official UK launch at the Phalanx Wargame Show in St Helens on Saturday 19^th 2010 at the 1^st Corps trade stand.

To celebrate this momentous occasion, well it is for me… first show and all,  you will be able to purchase for the first time ever Battle Flags all new 15 mm English Civil War sheet of 17 Parliamentarian flags.

The full range of wargame and collectors flags from Battle Flag in 15mm and 25mm will be available to view and purchase at Phlanax from the lads of 1^st Corps.

1st Corps will be selling the full range of flags from Battle Flag at this and other prestigious wargaming shows and events throughout the UK for the rest of 2010.

40mm American Civil War Flags Now Available From Battle Flag

Due to numerous requests here at Battle Flag  we will be releasing our model flags in 40mm for gamers and collectors that like to collect these larger scale model soldiers. Starting with our extremely popular Confederate flag plates we will continue to rescale all our flag sets to this popular scale over the coming weeks.

The 40 mm sets of flags offer the same superlative artwork and quality already enjoyed by wargamers and collectors of model soldiers in the other popular scales.

The first release in the 40mm American Civil War range of model flags is, Hood's Texas Brigade and offers great value at 12.50 for 10 flags including the 1st, 4th and 5th Texas as well as the 3rd Arkansas and the 18th Georgia Infantry.

Click Here to go to our online shop for this and our many other sets of model and wargaming flags.

Trans Mississippi Department and Kentucky Orphan Brigade Wargame Flags From Battle Flag

This week’s releases include two brand new sheets of wargame flags covering the flags and standards of the Trans Mississippi Department and Kentucky’s Orphan Brigade.

Both sheets of flags are available in 25mm, 20mm, and 15mm with 54mm available in two sheet sets.

It is amazing what you see when you create an analytical study of a flag. The script and Battle Honors on the 6^th Kentucky for instance demonstrate not only different styles but different writing techniques. The Battle Honors were not all written in the same hand and one can only imagine the story that in itself tells.

You can buy these and any other sets from Battle Flag Here

The Standard of the 1st Texas Infantry From Battle Flag.

The first Confederate promo figure is now finished. As is now becoming the norm with Battle Flag ACW promo pics the figure is from the excellent Perry Miniatures 28mm range.

Representing a standard bearer of the 1st Texas Infantry charging with the colours. Known as the Wigfall it was made by Lula Wigfall, daughter of the regiment's first colonel, Louis T. Wigfall, and was presented to the 1st Texas in the summer of 1861.

As the battle honors attest, the 1st Texas fought under this flag throughout the Peninsula Campaign. The Texans carried it through the battle of Second Manassas in August 1862 and on into Maryland during Lee's first invasion of the North.

At the Battle of Antietam, in Miller's cornfield  the 1st Texas suffered 82.3 percent casualties, being the highest number of killed and wounded suffered by any single unit North or South in a single action during the entire war. During the battle no less than nine men fell carrying this flag. When the ninth standard bearer was killed, the flag was lost. It was picked up from among the Texas dead by a Union soldier. 

The "Wigfall" standard from Battle Flag is from the Hoods Texas Brigade set. The set comes as a plate sheet  and contains no less than 11 standards. The battle flags and standards for 1st Texas, 4th Texas, 5th Texas , 18th Georgia, 3rd Arhansas, Hamptons Legion are all beautifully represented and are a superb addition to anyone who wargames or collects Hood's Texas Brigade. The set is available as a plate in 15mm, 25/28mm and as a two plate set in 54mm from Battle-Flag.com.