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What scale are you looking to paint? I have a large 15mm french & Yrs War army with some Brits and Prussians as well. All of them are Essex figures and nicely done. If you want 25mm you might want to look into Dixon figures. Both are English companies but there are US distributors.
For rules, Age of Reason seems best to handle fairly large and small battles. You can tailor the rules to your likeing to add or take away for realism as you see fit. Koenigs Kreig is another set but I think it may be out of print. Those rules work for very large scale battles.
One quick painting tip for you. If you are the type of guy who hates the plain 'ol brown, black or tan horses that dont look any more realistic than gumbys horse or compliment your finely painted hussars or dragoons, then this tip you will love. You can paint several very quickly and dont have to be neat doing it. The drying time is lengthened and you will see why.
Take your horse(s), clean it up (removing flashing etc)and glue gun them on a popsicle stick. Use a wide brush and paint the entire horse in an acrylic orange. (If you want black horses then paint them in an acrylic sky blue.) Let the paint dry and add another coat if there are bare spots. Once dry you will paint the entire horse in an oil burnt umber. Again you dont have to be neat and you can overcoat the figure no problem. Set them aside for a few minutes up to 30. What is happeneing is the oil paint is staining the acrylic paint. Now for the magic. Take a clean soft cotton cloth, I use a white T-shirt and cut a 4"x4" square. Fold it cross ways a couple times so u have a smooth fold about as thick as your 'lil finger. Hold it so the open ends face your palm and the soft fold is away from your fingers. Then brushing the cloth across the figure removing the extra oil paint. dont apply much pressure as you remove both the oil and acrylic. It may take several pieces of cloth to remove as much of the oil to get the desired look. The dark oil will sit in the recesses and you clean the oil from the higher areas creating a natural shadowing effect. The staining from the oil paint will darken your orange undercoat and give a true horse like look. That's it, set it aside to dry, several days, and then come back and paint the bridle, saddle and horse cloth however you need. The more oil paint you leave on the longer the drying time. After some practice you will be painting horses like a pro.
Oh, and why paint black horses sky blue? Look at a black horse and you will see that it has a blue sheen look in the light.
Good luck.
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