French 6ème Corps 1813

[spearsup]

Hi,

First of all, sorry for my english which is not perfect ...

I just want to talk about the Frech 1813 army list and errata

P130. It's indicated that French naval artillery units and ..., wich cannot contain other French units.
Theses Naval artillery units (4 regtiments) only fought during 1813 and 1814. I thinck there is a mistake :

Lets look at the ODB for Spring and Autumn Campaign :

20 eme Division Général Compans
1ere bgde
32eme léger
1er d'artillerie de marine

2ème bgde
20 eme provisoire
23eme provisoire
3ème d'artillerie de marine

21 eme division général Lagrange
1bgde
37 eme léger
régt Joseph Napoleon (Spanish Foreign troops)
4 eme d'artillerie de marine

2ème bgde
2ème d'artillerie de marine (6 bataillons !)

Now lets speak about their characteristics ! These 4 Régiments where considered as the best french infantry units by the emperor, close to the guard. Marmont said that these troups where the best of is VIeme corps and fought fiercely and sustain high losses rates from gunnery without any panic. They fought hardly not one time but in every major battle (Lutzen, Bautzen, Dresde, Leipzig ...). So considering them as other french infantry units seems not realistic, they should classified as the Swiss Regiment ...

Cheers

[MikeHorah]

We have altered this for the main lists published later this year . The ones in the rulebook are there to help people start up ,and are not the definitive versions. The Naval artillery infantry are only separately shown in the Spring 1813 list . For the second Autumn 1813 list they are not separately identified and can be fielded as French regular line infantry "average veteran" or "average drilled". In the Spring of 1813 our view is that they, in common with most of the newly created field regiments, had not had been trained in regimental manoeuvres - which French Marshals complained of. Remember a unit is more than one battalion. In the Spring we therefore make them average drilled. Troops of that standard quality were still hard to find for Napoleon in the early part of 1813 so average drilled does recognise that for the Grande Armee in 1813 they were better than the many conscripts. The infantry Corps lists for 1813 are an amalgam of the types available and one needs to ensure that there are not too many of the getter types fielded in a single Corps if the problems Napoleon had are to be modelled