"Prussian Landwehr Artillery" Topic

About 3 years ago I changed fig on my btry #13, #21, and Horse # 12 into landwehr using landwehr inf fig. Pikemen were easyest into sponge/ram men. Filing off muskets into powder bags, cannon balls or removing altogether. Not sure if the would have worn lithewka coats or not and not having a wide range of fig to work with I hedged my bets and have only 4,5, and 6 fig respectively. anyone else try this?

I do not believe the Landwehr Artillery wore the Litewka (do not recall where I read this though) but the Line Horse Artillery did. I game in 15mm and Black Hat have them in Litewka so that is the route I will go.

On 29 April 1813, the formation of further 12 batteries was ordered, of which however only 10 batteries were created for the moment: horse battery no. 12, 6pounder batteries nos. 20 to 27 (no. 19 remaining vacant for the moment), 12pounder foot battery no. 2. With the exception of 6pounder foot battery no. 24 and 12pounder foot battery no. 2, these batteries were destined to be assigned to the Landwehr. Still, they were ordinary regular batteries and did not wear any Landwehr uniforms.

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I thank you gentlemen, With the information I had it was my call.I am the experiment if you let someone play in 2 different war game groups then fall of the map with no human contact in the Napoleonic world for 25 or so years. I may change them back, but I doubt this is the only anomaly. I do not totaly understand FOR landwehr in that #13 is in the 12th Brig, and #12 Reitende in II Corp Res Art. The other btrys I would think worked closer w/ landwehr but military minds do work differently (I know first hand)

To create these batteries "for" the Landwehr was a concept of the first half of 1813, when the idea prevailed to have independent brigades or divisons made up exclusively of Landwehr.

During the 1813 armistice the wise decision was taken to distribute many of the Landwehr units amongst the line troops, and therefore the same happened to some of these 8 batteries.

How did these batteries compare with the line in performance?

Hard to say, every battery has to be judged individually, and for this the data is too rudimentary.

But these Batterie for the Landwehr WERE line batteries (the officers and men being regular soldiers who had served before), so the variations in performance between them will have been in the same range as those of the other line batteries created in the first half of 1813.

Batteries which had had the chance to take part in the 1812 and 1813 spring campaigns may have been performed better in any aspect, due to the practical experience gathered. However, peace time shooting practice was part of the artillery training already before 1812.