"Need a detailed battery diagram" Topic
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 Extra Crispy  | 06 Mar 2012 3:40 p.m. PST |
I'm looking for a detailed diagram of a typical battery deployment during the Napoleonic Wars. Country not important, but good detail on all the limbers, caissons, etc. And i don't just mean the gun and crew – I mean the whole battery. I know I have one in a box somewhere but that is in storage for the foreseeable future…. |
| Rudysnelson | 06 Mar 2012 8:30 p.m. PST |
The 1970s Almark book on French artillery had several darwings on battery deployment.
What you might find interesting was the depth that a battery and its train occupied when deployed. |
| Mapleleaf | 06 Mar 2012 10:02 p.m. PST |
Here you go
Great Source for a lot of good Napoleonic information Highly recommended link |
| Extra Crispy | 06 Mar 2012 11:11 p.m. PST |
Awesome. So it looks as if an 8 gun battery is roughly 150 yards across and twice as deep? To do that in 6mm at 1:1 you'd need a base 450mm wide and 900mm deep, or about 18" x 36". Not exactly the 40mm square we imagine is it? |
| Le General | 07 Mar 2012 3:00 a.m. PST |
And Napoleon often used 80 gun batteries, so did the Russians. |
| Rudysnelson | 07 Mar 2012 5:22 a.m. PST |
French batteries tended to be 8 guns for foot and 6 guns for horse. In 1813-14 the foot batteries tened to be 6 gun to. I am not sure if batteries in Spain were mainly 6 gun or not. In some cases French field batteries were only 6 guns if the howitzers had been stripped and convereged into a special battery. Russians were 10 gun batteries with 8 cannon and 2 licornes. Mark this is ahy 'Guard du Corps' back in the 1980s we had artillery batteries with a 1 1/2 width and a 3 " depth. based on the distance between guns it was more like 80 yards deployment width. The unique thing was that the British tended to have more width between guns and the Russians less than the French (almost wheel to wheel) so the average frontage for batteries for all nations was nearly the same. |
| Lion in the Stars | 07 Mar 2012 7:44 a.m. PST |
Sam commented on this in the LaSalle rules. Artillery isn't deep enough, and infantry is far too deep. Though if you are doing this at 1:1, you can get your balance much closer to correct. |
| Lion in the Stars | 08 Mar 2012 1:00 p.m. PST |
Awesome. So it looks as if an 8 gun battery is roughly 150 yards across and twice as deep? To do that in 6mm at 1:1 you'd need a base 450mm wide and 900mm deep, or about 18" x 36". Well, how wide is a typical infantry battalion? Close to the same, right? Not exactly the 40mm square we imagine is it? Well, if your infantry battalions are 40mm squares it is! |
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