"British field artillery pieces in Crimea?" Topic

Hello everyone,

The field artillery pieces of the Royal Artillery and the Royal Horse Artillery in the Crimea were exactly the same as those used during the Napoleonic wars ?

Thank you,

Pascal

Foundry do some artillery:

Wargames Foundry – Crimean War – British – page 5 Artillery

6pdr field gun
9pdr field gun
12pdr field gun
12pdr howitzer
24pdr howitzer
32pdr field carriage
32pdr naval carriage
32pdr howitzer
10inch howitzer

If you look at the gun barrels you will see that they have squared-off dolphins – probably not Napoleonic.

If you are ever in Paris – go to the Musee d'Armee – they have French gun barrels mounted around an open square – squared-off dolphins.

If you are ever in Central London – go to Covent Garden/Soho – you will see the muzzles of barrels of trophy Roosian guns used as bollards (trunnions and dolphins probably removed)

Ah that's interesting and when the famous British guns of the Napoleonic era would have been replaced?

Thank you Stoppage and what tumblingdiceuk.com offers in 20 mm, if you know, is it usable or what?

@p

Tumblingdice's Crimean war range appears to be 25mm (1/72) _not_ 20mm.

Contact them and ask them to supply some pictures of their range.

I am sure the owner knows what he is doing – but some pictures of his wares would be helpful to potential customers.

Most British artillery was produced, distributed, and controlled, by the Board of Ordnance; operating from Woolwich Arsenal, South-East London.

(There were also a small number of private artillery manufacturers such as Carron in Falkirk, Scotland and the Low Moor Iron Company in Bradford, England.)

The main focus would be naval artillery; military artillery being secondary. War ships would sail to Chatham to be up-gunned, they would also pick up the military field artillery equipments for use overseas. Troops returning to Britain would send their artillery equipments back to Woolwich

I would have thought that by 1854 – 40 years after Waterloo – that most Napoleonic-era artillery would have been worn-out and recycled into new gun-tubes.

However – as Cuprum2 points out in the French thread – it would be perfectly alright to use your Napoleonic artillery pieces to war-game Crimean War battles.

The weather has turned here and it is almost cold enough to wear a Cardigan sweater, but not enough to don a Balaclava helmet.

In Crimea the guns are no longer those of the Napoleonic era, it is logical…

Tumbling dice's Crimean war range ARE NOT 25mm (1/72) but small 20mm and to my knowledge only the 20mm of "Irregulars miniatures" are smaller.