
"My 1st Western Army of Borodino" Topic
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14Bore | 25 Aug 2022 12:25 p.m. PST |
Scale 15mm-18mm, Empire basing, 1=60 ratio Started around Aug 1980, built on Alexander Mikaberidze's oob link Though listed as 82,400 438 guns have 1580 inf and cavalry figures and 438 artilleryman. Empire uses a artilleryman to represent a piece, how many actual cannon models varies but except a couple batteries have 4 models so can split a battery as the 1st Position btry and 4th Light find themselves in here.
Grenadiers and Musketeers are in columns, Cavalry and Jagers in line Only substitutions are the Seversk Chasseur Regt was a early cavalry unit of mine and is taking place or Irkutsk Dragoons, and the Tartar Uhlans are split into the two Tartar Cossacks until I find figures for them. Actually some not obviously listed, the Ingermanland Dragoons ( I have 4 fig) had police duty, II inf corp , 4th Div had 2 battalions of Moscow Militia, VI inf Corp muskets 24th Div had 2 battalions of Moscow Militia IV inf corp, 23rd Div had 2 foot Cossack battalions and 2 Cossack foot battalion were listed in III inf corp, 3rd Div Onto the show
In front of IV Corp is 2nd Reserve Artillery Brigade and in the blue coat and white top hat is Count Pierre Bezukhov
Closest to actual numbers is Guard Corp which had 17,250 and my corp contains 16,140 and 1,012 artilleryman is pretty close, worse is III corp that had 10,800 and my corp has 16,980 plus 280 artilleryman.
2 Tartar Cossack regiments are stand in from the split Tartar Uhlans until figures can be obtained but my cossacks are way over represented by 1400 men
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79thPA  | 25 Aug 2022 12:29 p.m. PST |
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14Bore | 25 Aug 2022 12:35 p.m. PST |
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Lets party with Cossacks | 25 Aug 2022 1:17 p.m. PST |
A testament to dedication and skill. Unlike the Stalin aphorism 'quantity has its own quality' this collection has both. Terrific to see the whole collection out. For me the artillery park is the pick. From memory it's work in progress was shown in earlier posts and is well worth a look. Congratulations and thanks for showing us the full splendor! |
ColCampbell  | 25 Aug 2022 1:58 p.m. PST |
Wow! What a labor of love. Jim |
Rosenberg | 25 Aug 2022 11:03 p.m. PST |
Great. I have VII Corps 2nd Grenadier Div IV Cavalry Corps and a few cossacks and a 6 x 4 table so its enough! |
Rosenberg | 25 Aug 2022 11:05 p.m. PST |
You can cause havoc with Cossacks if you use them right! |
Shardik | 25 Aug 2022 11:58 p.m. PST |
I started my 1812 collection in 1980 as well, while in my last year of school! 25mm Minifigs, I got as far as one unit of Old Guard and one of Russian grenadiers. Didn't start again for about 30 years! |
14Bore | 27 Aug 2022 5:05 p.m. PST |
Just realized I retook the VI Corp as forgot to turn its tag around after side picture but used first picture. |
14Bore | 28 Aug 2022 3:44 p.m. PST |
Having worked on this a long time knew I was overshooting figures, so now the bill. 2nd corp 11,450 men have 15880 4th Div – 135 infantry figures + 560 actual artilleryman (18 Militia present not counted in total) 17th Div – 111 infantry figures +560 actual artilleryman +73.83 figures 3rd corp 10,800 men have 17,260 Gren Div- 141 figures 3rd Div 142 figures +280 actual artilleryman (17 Militia figures not in account) +107.66 figures IV corp. 12000men have 13,020 11 Div – 133 figures +320 actual artilleryman 23 Div – 84 figures +160 artilleryman (17 Militia figures not in account) +25 V corp. 17,250 men have 17,152 Gd div – 209 + 800 artilleryman Gd cav – 60 +212 artilleryman -1.5 VI Corp 12,500 men have 16,960 7th Div 134 + 560 artilleryman 23rd Div 130+ 560 artilleryman (18 Militia figures not in account) +74.33 In Alexander Mikaberidze's oob he only gives squadrons and guns 1CC – 67 + 160 artilleryman 2CC – 44 +160 artilleryman 3CC – 72 +160 artilleryman Equals 183 figures Cossacks- 118 5,600 men have 7,240 with artilleryman +27 Res Artilleryman equates to 1600 men 71,200 of 82,400 so far missing 11,200 men 186.66 cavalry figures? Have 183 figures + 480 artilleryman = 11,460 +4.33 There is my analysis comparing my paper strength numbers to actual numbers at Borodino
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Rosenberg | 02 Sep 2022 11:15 p.m. PST |
Your Inf columns have a frontage of three figs? |
14Bore | 05 Sep 2022 2:26 a.m. PST |
A company in Empire can be 2 or more figures, a battalion in usually around 12 and as I have analyzing Borodino Russian battalions, other than the guard were quite down in numbers. |
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