The Battle of Austerlitz - 15mm Austrian army from 1805 by Bothi
Feuer nach eigenem Ermessen, Herr Major!
What would be a Napoleonic army without artillery? I guess not an Napoleonic army.
So I decided to go with the medium artillery next. The Austrian part of the4th Column at Austerlitz had 2 Feldbatterien / Fieldbatteries of at least 16 6 pdrs (together) and 2 Schwerpunktbatterien / Positionbatteries of each four 12 pdrs and two howitzers.
There were more 6 pdrs and 3 pdrs as direct battalion support pieces. In total over 40 pieces of artillery. We decided to model these as a large medium battery (3 Bases) to represent the 3 and 6 pdrs and a small heavy battery (2 Bases) for the 12pdrs.
As FoG:N is played at a quite high organisational level our modelling is actually mostly correct for game purposes. Things like less than 8 artillery support pieces per battalion are normally not displayed in the game and are considered to be part of the “normal infantry shooting”.
So this time around I finished the large medium battery and corresponding limber. The cannons and the limber are again from the awesome Fighting 15s range by AB miniatures. The cannon crew are from Old Glory. These OGs are much better quality than the infantry from OG.
And the corresponding limber.
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