"28mm Mexican limbers, caissons and wagons for the MAW?" Topic

Anyone know of a source for these or suggestions for "close enoughs"?

Could I get away with using Napoleonic Spanish equipment and just swap out heads? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Could I get away with using Napoleonic Spanish equipment and just swap out heads?

Probably. Not a great expert, but I just finished reading Santa Anna of Mexico. The Mexican army descended directly from the post-Napoleonic Royal Spanish army. The Mexicans didn't have a lot of field artillery. They had no horse artillery at all, only foot gunners, but some foot artillery would have been horse- or mule-drawn with conventional limbers and tool and ammunition wagons.

Other guns, especially the heaviest, would have been ox-drawn, or just plain positional. Santa Anna liked to defend fortified positions, when he could get into one. The Mexicans seem several times not to have been able to redeploy their batteries once battle was joined. The flexibility of American 'Flying Artillery' (horse artillery) was a major advantage.

One common form of local transport in Mexico was the carreta, a wooden cart with big solid wooden wheels, usually ox-drawn. I have a set of these I picked up years ago from the old Frontier Conquistador line. I don't know where you'd get carretas or ox teams today.

The Mexican horse artillery had been allowed to die out, however Torrejon had a section of horse artillery, armed with four pounders, for his brigade. Its not much, but you may as well. "The Mexican Soldier" shows a Red horse artillery uniform, although not necessarily the horse artillery uniform. It was a simple conversion from a regular gunner (plume, sword, boots) and looks great.

I used front rank seven years war limbers with mules and oxen. The drivers were civilians hired with the teams as needed. The OG mexican civilian pack has some figures that are suitable. A bit of a waste since the rifle armed figures in this pack aren't suitable for this war. although the rake and hoe armed guys are cool.

Boot Hill does an ox cart. Their stuff is great!

Hmm, 7YW huh? Interesting, I will look into the OG stuff, some of my MAW is OG so it would fit in. Thanks.

Santa Anna used Gribeauval style Napoleonic artillery pieces during the Texas Revolution ten years earlier. So would suggest looking at 6/8/12pdr French guns and limbers from any Napoleonic range.

Thank you for the heads up on Boot Hill Miniatures. We do indeed produce a peasant cart for Mexico.

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