I also agree that there's too much artillery available. I don't find that all available artillery is in the shop window. Quite a bit is held back in reserve - probably for a number of reasons. One reason batteries were held in reserve, other than for tactical reasons, was that in some armies batter...

That depends a lot on what you call 'remounting in an emergency'. For the most part, military tactics involving 'getting the heck out of dodge' are planned and executed well.. It isn't 'oh my god, they are charging us... we're all gonna die... every man for himself'. If they get the timing wrong, t...

Horse were always kept away from artillery in period. This change makes foot as easy to hit as mounted. Less incentive to keep away. Artillery deployed in first batch would mean that the player deploying second can ensure that enemy artilery has no target. What's the evidence for this. In the C19th...

Wagner, "European Weapons & Warfare, 1618-1648" (1979), p.84, shows dragoon horses tied together by the reins that would have made remounting in an emergency nearly impossible. I don't see any evidence of "shoot and scoot" battlefield behaviour from dragoons in this period. I...

Though numbers of batteries can be deceptive for Prussian and iirc Russians as they replaced batteries when they ran out of ammunition rather than sending caissons back and forth in the french fashion,

Re point 7: It seems to have been the contemporary opinion that infantry were at a disadvantage in terrain, such as woods, where they had to fight cavalry. Beresina and Hanau are battles where cavalry pounced on infantry that had made that midtake. Dense forest, where cavalry and artillery couldn't ...

There are plenty of suppliers of 28mm buildings; often pre-coloured laser cut kits like these http://www.4ground.co.uk/Default.aspx?page=284 . I just did a Google search for 28mm wargames buildings and then was the first hit. There are ablot more.

Russian Cuirassiers are armoured in the campaigns of 1812-15; unarmoured in the earlier campaigns. Prussians aren't armoured until 1815. The British don't get their cuirasses until after the peace. A pity there wasn't a general war in the next fifteen years or so when uniforms were at the peak of ex...

The flags for 1789-1815 can be bought from Warlord games in their 28mm Napoleonic Russians range.

Looking at your photos I might have to add some putty to the Austrian heads to get the plume a bit taller, might help make it all look a bit higher for the helmet. Victrix officer heads have helmets with larger crests so it gets a bit taller looking and I should hopefully have enough extras of thos...

P.s. Marbot returns to this theme in his summing up of Massena's conduct in the Peninsula: "Next was the fatal mistake occasioned by the red coats of the Hanoverians. As the same had already happened at Busaco, Massena should have made them wear their grey overcoats before sending them into Ono...

I think they would do both. Looking at the rules, I think the fact that you cannot charge field fortification unless you are at 1 inch represents the existence of the ditch in front of the fortification slowing down the attackers. Yet again support for the contention that we are looking a fairly su...

Thinking again about field works you are not only throwing up a heap of earth to the front but this is also creating a lower area behind where the earth came from. John In this period, wouldn't you be creating a lower area In _front_ : a ditch? It's a matter of "remblais" and "deblai...

Marbot gives the following account of Fuentes d'Onoro: "Finally, to complete our disasters, our troops were thrown into disorder by a deplorable occurrence, which should have been foreseen. In Ferey's division there was a battalion of the Hanoverian legion in the French service. Their uniform w...

Anything that tended to reward deployment of artillery in cavalry country out on the wings would probably prove unwelcome to that extent. Wouldn't captors who could control guns also have the optoon of removing them instead? Probably unwanted fuss but if captured and controlled enemy guns redeemed a...

terrys wrote: Yes! - There is no value in being partly in cover. You should always try to be either completely in cover or not at all.

That also handily deals with those instances I've cited in the past where infantry on the edge of a wood were run down by cavalry

You have to "move" into contact with artillery to recapture it. So the face off/autoswap situation described here with 2 units in contact swapping ownership isn't quite right. So, how WOULD it play out? P&S move in and capture, Horse move in and recapture... then what? Not addressed t...

Yes, that does seem the simplest and best solution.

Wouldn't the simplest solution be use it or lose it? Artillery that is not controlled is removed. The classic example of captured guns having an effect on a battle is perhaps Luetzen and there Swedish infantry take the road battery and sweep the Imperialist centre with it's shooting. That could stil...

In the previous threads on cavalry versus infantry in woods, I posted a couple of instances of this interaction. In both, inability to form square in forests that would be Rough and Cover in FOGN terms meant disaster for the infantry. It was clear that military opinion of the day regarded placing in...