"limbered gun team as miniatures" Topic

Hi
I am looking at a lot of miniatures online – getting ideas for the paper 6mm ones i am making and was wondering are there any miniature ranges that show for limbered artillery not just the drivers but also the gunners – be they on foot or on horse- is that the only way to visually distinguish foot and horse artillery?

or do folks just not worry about such a visual distinction with their napoleonic armies?

It depends what army. Some have different uniforms, other the same. Some have distinctions that are probably too small to be visible in 6mm. Sometimes, horse teams are bigger for the horse artillery version of the same gun. Sometimes the gun trail is different.

Cheers,
John

i can understand that in 6mm those extra figures wouldnt be present, but even in the larger scales i havent seen any – so i am just curious if someone has made an army and has these extra team figures included in the limbered, on the move state

A while ago I was looking for mounted horse artillery gunners in 28mm. Manufacturers just don't seem to make them, presumably because they don't see any demand for them.

I believe it's a problem of scale. Here is an example of a Union battery:
The battery of six guns was commanded by a captain. The captain had command over as many as 170 men and 98 horses in a six gun battery with six horse teams. Above the 70 or so men needed to operate the guns and handle the horses moving the guns, additional men were needed to handle and supply the ammunition during the battle, and also to handle and move guns, horses, and limbers.. Batteries were self-sufficient units, so therefore, teamsters for supply wagons, blacksmiths and farriers, and various other support and administrative personal were included in each battery. In addition, batteries retained a number of extra men above the minimum required for the battery to function properly. These men were assigned to the batteries for training and for replacement of hospitalized sick, and furloughed men of the battery, and C more importantly C for quick replacement of battle casualties.
So, if your rules uses, say, 1 man equals 50, you only need 3 to 4 figures to represent this. Otherwise you would have too many figures representing a 6 gun battery. Even worse for a 4 gun battery.