Hearts of Oak (well MDF...)

[Last Hussar]

Having finished 4 cannons, I believe I now have all of First Western Army for Borodino at Blucher Grand Scale.

[fsn]

Hazzah!

Well done Sir.   

       

Now, about the 2nd Western Army? 

[paulr]

    

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Are we going to get photos at any point?

[Last Hussar]

Well, you see the photos already posted?

They look like that!

Did you want the whole army laid out?

Now, about the 2nd Western Army? 

That's up next. Needs to be a figure audit, see what I have left.

[Last Hussar]

Looking for recommendations for Cossacks in the range

Link to range below (page 2)

http://www.commission-figurines.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Commission-Catalogue-2021.pdf

I'm thinking using

Lt Cav. Shako
 - Cloth Shebraque (British Light Dragoon)

at the bottom of the page.

They are 8mm tall infantry, about 1/200th, so, allied with the squarish profile, should be ok. Thoughts?

I have based cavalry 6 to a 40mm frontage. I am thinking showing the irregular nature go with 3 Cossacks. this fits in exactly with 1 pack of cavalry; a pack is 12 strips, for cavalry that is 3 to a strip. I need 4 units of 3 bases, so 12 bases. I could up to 4 on a base. If I did this I'd get a 2nd pack. that is 72 figures. Divided by 4 is 18 bases, so 6 units if I wanted them for a more 'irregular' army.

Thoughts?

[sunjester]

Thoughts?

What a queation to ask on this forum!

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Thoughts?

Unprintable

[sunjester]

Unprintable

or incomprehensibe?

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

or incomprehensibe?

Both kiddo

[Last Hussar]

So, defaulting to "not helping " then?

[Last Hussar]

Having basically enough troops now for 1809 and 1812, I have 3 working armies (with some padding to be done on the Russians; Guards/Grenadiers etc) I am looking at late war - 6th Coalition effectively.

Looking at Leipzig as a 'Model OOB', though will not be doing this specifically (because I'd have to do  Prussians).  My question is

How do the French allocate their artillery at this point

I am looking at this site

French at Leipzig

With this it shows the artillery at Divisional level.  In Blucher this would add one artillery (equalling 8-12 guns) to one of the Infantry bases (approx 3 - 5,000 men)

When doing a 'Historical' OOB for Blucher, you take the Corps as a whole. II Corps is 15,000 men + 40 guns, plus 14 guns in the Corps reserve.

Does 4 stands having an attached gun, plus an artillery reserve of 3 guns (=24-36 pieces) sound about right for a French Corps? I think the actual historical is a bit weaker than on the table.

Guns as part of an infantry base act differently to a artillery stand - they add 1 die to shooting up to a range of 2 Base Widths, where as Artillery units get 6 shots of multiple dice out to 8BW. (to clarify, you buy individual guns - you can 1 to a Infantry unit, or combine 3 to get one base of artillery).

[Last Hussar]

Update on 6th Coalition.
Looking at the battles it turns out most of them had Prussians in. The obvious result is I won't be doing 6th Coalition.

However,  as a wargamer, we all know I will be buying Prussians...

[fsn]

  That's how you get sucked in.

Someone was asking about the Saxon army and I was looking at my big book of the Saxon army and I've just spent an evening putting together an OOB for a Saxon division.

[Orcs]

Update on 6th Coalition.
Looking at the battles it turns out most of them had Prussians in. The obvious result is I won't be doing 6th Coalition.

However,  as a wargamer, we all know I will be buying Prussians...

Have you ordered them yet?

If not, Why not?