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Army Lists LOW COUNTRIES AND RHINELAND 1701-1714 (150AP-350AP) (War of The Spanish Succession)
Army Lists LOW COUNTRIES AND RHINELAND 1701-1714 (150AP-350AP) (War of The Spanish Succession)
Regiments are those whose standards have a single background colour behind the white cross, namely
Picardie, Champagne, Navarre, Piemont and Normandie. There was a marked improvement in French
infantry after Belle-Isles reforms in 1758.
1 x Corps (VII), of: 1 x subordinate CP (Augereau) @ 15AP, 8 x Bayonets @ 4AP, 0-1 x Light Cavalry @
5AP, 1 x Smoothbore Field Artillery @ 8AP, 0-1 x Heavy Artillery @ 12AP.
1 x Bavarian Corps, of: 1 x allied CP @ 15AP, 0-1 x Dragoons @ 4AP, 1-2 x Light Cavalry @ 5AP, 0-1 x
Elite Bayonets (Guard) @ 5AP, 4-10 x Bayonets @ 4AP, 1 x Smoothbore Horse Artillery @ 16AP, 1 x
Smoothbore Field Artillery @ 8AP, 0-1 x Smoothbore Heavy Artillery @ 15AP.
AUSTRIANS Aggression: 2
1 x Inert HQ (Mack) @ 10AP, 4 x Cuirassier @ 6AP, 8-16 x Elite Bayonets (Grenadier Divisions) @ 5AP,
1-2 x Elite Marksmen (Jager) @ 3AP, 0-1 x Smoothbore Heavy Artillery @ 12AP, 0-1 x Pontooneers @
2AP.
4-12 x Corps, each of: 1 x Inert CP @ 5AP, 8 x Muskets @ 3AP, 0-1 x Inferior Light Infantry (Grenze) @
4AP, 0-1 x Light Cavalry (Hussars, Dragoons, Chevauxleger, Uhlans) @ 5AP, 2 x Smoothbore Field
Artillery @ 8AP.
Notes: My main source for 1805 has walked or hidden, so Im mostly relying on Duffys Austerlitz. The
French list is reliable except possibly for the Guard and Bavarians. The Austrian list is roughly correct in
terms of battalions and squadrons and its organisation conforms to normal Austrian practise. Feel free to
offer corrections. Macks stupid headlong advance into Bavaria (possibly the only example of an aggressive
Inert general!) led to the quick surrounding and surrender of nearly all the Austrian field army at Ulm
before there was much fighting and long before their Russian allies could arrive. These lists are therefore
strictly for what if battles. Mack tried unsuccessfully to live off the country like the French, so is not
permitted a Supply Base.
Elite Light Cavalry @ 6AP, 1 x Smoothbore Field Artillery @ 8AP, 1 x Smoothbore Heavy Artillery @
12AP, 0-1 x Pontooneers @ 2AP, 0-1 x Supply Base @ 8AP.
0-1 x subordinate Inert HQ (Buxhowden commanding 1st - 3rd Columns) @ 10AP.
1 x Russian Advance Guard, of: 1 x subordinate CP (Bagration) @ 15AP, 2 x Inferior Light Infantry (Jager)
@ 4AP, 3 x Stoic Foot @ 3AP, 1 x Dragoons @ 4AP, 1 x Light Cavalry (Hussars) @ 5AP, 1 x Light Horse
(Cossacks) @ 2AP, 2 x Smoothbore Field Artillery @ 8AP.
1 x Mixed Column (1st), of: 1 x subordinate CP (Dokhturov) @ 15AP, 1 x Inferior Light Infantry (Austrian
Grenze) @ 4AP, 1 x Light Cavalry (Austrian Uhlans & Hussars) @ 5AP, 1 x Light Horse (Cossacks) @ 2
AP, 1 x Horse Smoothbore Artillery (Austrian) @ 15AP, 1 x Elite Bayonets (Russian Grenadiers) @ 5AP, 6
x Stoic Foot @ 3AP, 2 x Smoothbore Artillery (Russian) @ 8AP, 1 x Heavy Smoothbore Artillery (Russian)
@ 12AP.
2 x Russian Columns (2nd, 3rd), each of: 1 x subordinate CP (Langeron, Prebyshevsky) @ 15AP, 1 x Inferior
Light Infantry (Jager) @ 4AP, 4 x Stoic Foot @ 3AP, 2 x Smoothbore Field Artillery @ 8AP.
1 x Mixed Column (4th), of: 1 x subordinate CP (Miloradovitch) @ 15AP, 4 x Stoic Foot @ 3AP, 4 x
Muskets (Austrian) @ 3AP, 1 x Marksmen (Austrian Jager) @ 2AP, 3 x Smoothbore Field Artillery @ 8AP,
1 x Smoothbore Heavy Artillery @ 12AP.
1 x Mixed Column (5th), of: 1 x subordinate CP (Liechtenstein) @ 15AP, 1 x Cuirassiers (Austrian) @ 6AP,
1 x Cuirassiers (Russian) @ 6AP, 1 x Light Cavalry (Russian Uhlans & Hussars) @ 5AP, 0-1 x Dragoons
(Russian), 1 x Light Horse (Cossacks) @ 2AP, 1 x Horse Smoothbore Artillery @ 12AP.
Notes: Initial strengths had been greatly reduced by Austerlitz. Those here are the numbers actually present.
FRENCH Aggression: 3
1 x HQ @ 20AP, 0-1 x Elite Light Cavalry @ 6AP, 0-8 x Elite Bayonets (Young Guard) @ 5AP, 0-5 x
Dragoons @ 4AP, 0-2 x Light Cavalry @ 5AP, 0-1 x Smoothbore Horse Artillery @ 16AP, 0-1 x
Smoothbore Heavy Artillery @ 12AP, 0-1 x Concealment @ 10AP, 0-1 x Pontooneers @ 2AP, 0-1 x
Supply Base @ 8AP.
2-4 Corps each of:
1 x subordinate CP @ 15AP, 3-6 x Bayonets @ 4AP, 1 x Light Cavalry @ 5AP, 1 x Smoothbore Field
Artillery @ 8AP.
Notes: The French are for once permitted a Supply Base, due to the impossibility of relying completely on
foraging in such a barren country. It also provides a line of communication for Partida to attack. The
Spanish are not, due to their lack of organisation.
AUSTRIA 1809
(Eckmuhl, Aspern-Essling and Wagram)
AUSTRIAN Aggression: 2
1 x Brilliant CP (Archduke Charles) @ 50AP, 2-3 x Cuirassier @ 6AP, 1-2 x Dragoons @ 4AP, 0-3 x Light
Cavalry @ 5AP, 8 x Elite Bayonet (Grenadiers) @ 5AP, 1-3 x Smoothbore Horse Artillery @ 16AP, 1-3 x
Smoothbore Field Artillery @ 8AP, 0-1 x Pontooneers @ 2AP, 0-1 x Supply Base @ 8AP.
0-1 x Avantgarde of: 1 x subordinate CP @ 15AP, 1-2 x Light Cavalry @ 5AP, 1-6 x Inferior Bayonets
(Line) @ 3AP, 0-2 x Light Infantry (Jager) @ 5AP or Inferior Light Infantry (Grenze) @ 4AP, 0-1 x
Smoothbore Horse Artillery @ 16AP.
4-6 x Line Infantry Corps each: 1 x subordinate Inert CP @ 15AP, 0-2 x Light Cavalry @ 5AP, 7-8 x
Inferior Bayonets (Line) @ 3AP, 1-2 x Light Infantry (Jager) @ 5AP or Inferior Light Infantry (Grenze) @
4AP, 0-1 x Smoothbore Heavy Artillery @ 12AP, 0-1 x Smoothbore Horse Artillery @ 16AP, 2-4 x
Smoothbore Field Artillery @ 8AP.
Notes: The army cannot include more than 5 Jager, 6 Grenze, 6 Heavy, 3 Horse or 20 other artillery
elements. Archduke Charles was an excellent commander, but was unable to produce brilliant strokes
because of poor staff organisation. I am currently simulating this by making him Brilliant and subordinates
other than the commander of the Avantgarde Inert. Austrian line are graded as Inferior because they had
recently adopted bayonet attack, column movement and skirmishing, but did not do these very well.
Landwehr are not distinguished from regulars. Brigade batteries are not treated as regimental guns.
Alternative arguments on any of these points are welcome.
FRENCH Aggression: 4
1 x Brilliant HQ (Napoleon) @ 50AP, 0-1 x Elite Heavy Cavalry (Horse Grenadiers, Empress Dragoons) @
7AP, 0-1 x Elite Light Cavalry (Guard) @ 6AP, 0-4 x Elite Bayonets (Guard) @ 5AP, 0-2 x Heavy
Smoothbore Artillery, 0-2 x Horse Smoothbore Artillery, 0-1 x Pontooneers @ 2AP.
1-3 x French Corps, each: 1 x subordinate CP (Seras, Oudinot, Lannes, Davout, Marmont, Macdonald) @
15AP, 10-23 x Bayonets @ 4AP, 0-2 x Cuirassiers (Seras and Davout only) @ 6AP, 1-3 x Light Cavalry @
5AP, 0-1 x Smoothbore Heavy Artillery @ 12AP, 1 x Smoothbore Horse Artillery @ 16AP, 1-2 x
Smoothbore Field Artillery @ 8AP, 0-1 x Inferior Muskets (Portuguese) @ 2AP.
1 x partly French Corps, of: 1 x subordinate CP (Massena) @ 15AP, 1-2 x Light Cavalry @ 5AP, 11-12 x
Bayonets @ 5AP, 0-4 x Muskets (Baden) @ 3AP, 0-1 x Elite Marksmen (Baden Jager) @ 3AP, 1-2 x Elite
Bayonets (Hesse Darmstadt Guard) @ 5AP, 0-1 x Bayonets (Hesse Darmstadt) @ 4AP, 1-2 x Smoothbore
Horse Artillery @ 16AP, 2-3 x Smoothbore Field Artillery @ 8AP.
1 x French Reserve Cavalry, of: 0-1 x subordinate CP (Nansouty or Bessieres) @ 15AP, 1 x Heavy Cavalry
(Carabiniers) @ 5AP, 2-6 x Cuirassiers @ 6AP, 1 x Smoothbore Horse Artillery @ 16AP.
0-1 x Bavarian Corps, of: 1 x subordinate CP (Lefebvre) @ 15AP, 0-1 x Dragoons @ 4AP, 1-2 x Light
Cavalry @ 5AP, 0-1 x Elite Bayonets (Guard) @ 5AP, 4-10 x Bayonets @ 4AP, 0-1 x Smoothbore Heavy
Artillery @ 12AP, 1 x Smoothbore Horse Artillery @ 16AP, 1 x Smoothbore Field Artillery @ 8AP.
0-1 x Wurttemberg Corps, of: 1 x subordinate CP (Vandamme or Wrede) @ 15AP, 2 x Light Cavalry @
5AP, 2 x Muskets @ 3AP, 1 x Light Infantry (Light and Jager) @ 5AP, 1 x Smoothbore Horse Artillery @
16AP or Smoothbore Field Artillery @ 8AP.
0-1 x Saxon Corps, of: 1 x subordinate CP (Bernadotte) @ 15AP, 1 x Elite Cuirassiers @ 8AP, 0-1 x Light
Cavalry @ 5AP, 1-2 x Elite Bayonets (Guards and Grenadiers) @ 5AP, 5-7 x Bayonets @ 4AP, 0-2 x
Marksmen @ 2AP, 1 x Smoothbore Field Artillery @ 8AP.
Notes: The army cannot include more than 6 French Cuirassiers.
RUSSIA 1812 (800AP-1,000AP)
(Borodino Campaign)
FRENCH GRANDE ARMEE Aggression: 4
1 x Brilliant HQ (Napoleon) @ 50AP, 9-16 x Elite Bayonets (Guard) @ 5AP, 2 x Smoothbore Heavy
Artillery @ 12AP, 0-2 x Smoothbore Horse Artillery @ 16AP, 2-3 x Smoothbore Field Artillery @ 8AP, 01 x Pontooneers @ 2AP.
1st Corps: 1 x CP (Davout) @ 15AP, 2 x Light Cavalry @ 5AP, 15-18 x Bayonets @ 4AP, 1 x Inferior
Muskets (Spanish) @ 3AP, 1 x Smoothbore Heavy Artillery @ 12AP, 3 x Smoothbore Field Artillery @
8AP.
3rd Corps: 1 x CP (Ney) @ 15AP, 2 x Light Cavalry @ 5AP, 6 x Bayonets @ 4AP, 1 x Inferior Muskets
(Portuguese) @ 2AP, 0-1 x Inferior Bayonets (Illyrian) @ 3 AP, 1-6 x Muskets (Wurttemburg) @ 3AP, 0-1
x Light Infantry (Wurttemburg) @ 5AP, 0-2 x Marksmen (Wurttemburg Chasseurs) @ 2AP, 1 x
Smoothbore Heavy Artillery @ 12AP, 2 x Smoothbore Field Artillery @ 8AP.
4th Corps: 1x CP (Eugene) @ 15AP, 0-2 x Light Cavalry @ 5AP, 0-1 x Elite Dragoons (Italian) @ 5AP, 2 x
Light Cavalry (Bavarian) @ 5AP, 8 x Bayonets @ 4AP, 4-8 x Bayonets (Italian) @ 4AP, 0-1 x Inferior
Bayonets (Croatian) @ 3AP, 0-1 x Inferior Muskets (Spanish) @ 2AP, 1 x Smoothbore Heavy Artillery @
12AP, 2-3 x Smoothbore Field Artillery @ 8AP.
5th Corps: 1 x CP (Poniatowski) @ 15AP, 1-2 x Light Cavalry (Polish Chasseurs and Lancers) @ 5AP, 7-8 x
Bayonets (Polish) @ 4AP, 3 x Smoothbore Field Artillery @ 8AP.
8th (Westphalian) Corps: 1 x Inert CP (Junot) @ 5AP, 1 x Light Cavalry @ 5AP, 1 x Elite Bayonets @ 5AP,
4-7 x Bayonets @ 4AP, 3 x Marksmen @ 2AP, 1 x Elite Marksmen @ 3AP, 2 x Smoothbore Field Artillery
@ 8AP.
Reserve Cavalry: 1 x CP (Murat) @ 15AP, 6-7 x Light Cavalry @ 5AP, 3-4 x Light Cavalry (Polish
Lancers) @ 5AP, 1 x Light Cavalry (Bavarian) @ 5AP, 1 x Elite Cuirassier (Carabiniers) @ 8AP, 3-4 x
Cuirassier @ 6AP, 1 x Cuirassier (Saxon) @ 6AP, 1 x Cuirassier (Westphalian) @ 6AP, 2 x Dragoons @
4AP, 4-8 x Smoothbore Horse Artillery @ 16AP.
GERMANY 1813
(Lutzen, Bautzen, Dresden, Kulm, Leipzig)
FRENCH IF NAPOLEON IS PRESENT - Aggression: 4
1 x Brilliant HQ (Napoleon) @ 50AP, 2-6 x Elite Bayonets (Old & Middle Guard) @ 5AP, 6-18 x Bayonets
(Young Guard) @ 4AP, 1 x Elite Heavy Cavalry (Horse Grenadiers & Guard Dragoons) @ 7AP, 4-5 x Elite
Light Cavalry (Guard) @ 6AP, 1 x Smoothbore Horse Artillery @ 16AP, 5 x Smoothbore Field Artillery @
8AP, 5 x Smoothbore Heavy Artillery @ 12AP, 0-1 x Pontooneers @ 2AP.
2-8 x Corps, each of: 1 x subordinate CP @ 15AP, 7-12 x Bayonets @ 4AP, 0- x Inferior LC @ 3AP, 0-
x Smoothbore Horse Artillery @ 16AP, 2 x Smoothbore Field Artillery @ 8AP.
0-1 x Part-Saxon Corps, of: 1 x subordinate CP @ 15AP, 2 x Bayonets (French) @ 4AP, 3 x Inferior
Bayonets (Saxon) @ 3AP, 1 x Inferior Light Horse (Saxon) @ 3AP, 1-2 x Smoothbore Field Artillery @
8AP, 0-1 x Smoothbore Heavy Artillery @ 12AP.
0-1 x Reserve Cavalry of: 1 x subordinate CP @ 15AP or Brilliant CP (Murat) @ 50AP, 2-5 x Inferior
Cuirassier @ 4AP, 0-1 x Cuirassier (Saxon) @ 6AP, 1-4 x Dragoons @ 4AP, 4-12 x Inferior Light Cavalry
@ 3AP.
FRENCH IF NAPOLEON IS NOT PRESENT Aggression: 2
1 x CP (Eugene, Soult, Ney, Macdonald or Oudinot) @ 15AP, 0-2 x Inferior Cuirassiers @ 4AP or
Dragoons @ 4AP, 1-4 x Inferior Light Cavalry @ 3AP, 1 x Smoothbore Horse Artillery @ 16AP.
1-3 x Corps, each of: 1 x subordinate CP @ 15AP, 7-12 x Bayonets @ 4AP, 0- x Inferior LC @ 3AP, 0-
x Smoothbore Horse Artillery @ 16AP, 2 x Smoothbore Field Artillery @ 8AP.
0-1 x Part-Saxon Corps, of: 1 x subordinate CP @ 15AP, 2 x Bayonets (French) @ 4AP, 3 x Inferior
Bayonets (Saxon) @ 3AP, 1 x Inferior Light Horse (Saxon) @ 3AP, 1-2 x Smoothbore Field Artillery @
8AP, 0-1 x Smoothbore Heavy Artillery @ 12AP.
Notes: means no more than 1 corps in 2 can have such an element. Saxon foot and mounted except
cuirassiers are classed as inferior because of disaffection (they finally changed sides). French cavalry
(except Dragoons, who were not in the disastrous 1812 campaign) are classed as inferior because
inexperienced riders on bad horses. French infantry, although mostly recent recruits, are presently not
classed as inferior because they seem to have learned quickly and their bad behaviour was mostly off the
battlefield.
ALLIES: SPRING 1813 Aggression: 3
1 x CP (Wittgenstein or Barclay) @ 15AP (doubling as 1 Corps commander in each case), 0-1 x
Pontooneers @ 2AP, 0-1 x Supply Base @ 8AP.
1-3 x Russian Corps, each of: 0-1 x subordinate CP (Wittgenstein, Barclay & Miloradovitch) @ 15AP, 4 x
Stoic Foot @ 3AP, 2 x Inferior Light Infantry @ 4AP, 0-1 x Smoothbore Horse Artillery @ 16AP, 2-3 x
Smoothbore Field Artillery @ 8AP, 1 x Smoothbore Heavy Artillery @ 12AP.
0-1 x Russian Cavalry Corps, of: 1 x subordinate CP (Wintzingerode) @ 15AP, 1 x Elite Light Cavalry
(Guard) @ 6AP, 4 x Dragoons @ 4AP, 1 x Light Cavalry @ 5AP, 0-2 x Cuirassiers @ 6AP, 1 x
Smoothbore Horse Artillery @ 16AP or Smoothbore Field Artillery @ 8AP, 0-2 Smoothbore Heavy
Artillery @ 12AP.
1-3 x Prussian Corps, each of: 1 x subordinate CP (Blucher, Yorck & Kleist) @ 15AP, 8 x Bayonet (Regular
& Reserve @ 4 AP, 4 x Inferior Bayonet (Landwehr) @ 3 AP, 0-1 x Elite Marksmen (Jager) @ 3AP, 2 x
Light Cavalry (Dragoons, Hussars & Uhlans) @ 5AP, 1 x Inferior Light Cavalry (Landwehr) @ 3AP, 1 x
Smoothbore Horse Artillery @ 16AP, 2 x Smoothbore Field Artillery @ 8AP, 1 x Smoothbore Heavy
Artillery @ 12AP.
Bluchers Corps only: 2 x Elite Bayonets (Guards) @ 5AP, 1 x Elite Light Cavalry (Guard) @ 6AP, 1 x
Heavy Cavalry (Cuirassiers) @ 5AP
ALLIES AUTUMN 1813:
ARMY OF BOHEMIA
1 x HQ (Schwarzenberg accompanied by Emperors of Austria & Russia & King of Prussia) @ 20AP, 4 x
Elite Stoic Foot (Russian Guards) @ 5AP, 2 x Elite Bayonets (Prussian Guards) @ 5AP, 10 x Elite
Bayonets (Austrian Grenadiers) @ 5AP, 4-5 x Elite Bayonets (Russian Grenadiers) @ 5AP, 1 x Elite Light
Cavalry (Prussian Guard) @ 6AP, 2 x Cuirassiers (Austrian) @ 6AP, 2 x Cuirassiers (Russian) @ 6AP, 1 x
Heavy Cavalry (Prussian Cuirassiers) @ 5AP, 4 x Smoothbore Heavy Artillery @ 12AP, 1 x Austrian
Light Division of: 2 x Inferior Light Infantry @ 4AP, 2 x Inferior Bayonets @ 3AP, 1 x Light Cavalry @
5AP & 1 x Smoothbore Field Artillery @ 8AP, 0-1 x Pontooneers @ 2AP, 0-1 x Supply Base @ 8AP.
1 x Austrian Avantgarde, of: 1 x subordinate CP (Liechtenstein) @ 15AP, 4 x Inferior Bayonets @ 3AP, 4 x
Inferior Light Infantry @ 4AP, 1 x Smoothbore Horse Artillery @ 16AP, 1 x Smoothbore Field Artillery @
8AP.
2-4 x Austrian Corps, each of: 1 x subordinate Inert CP (Colloredo, Klenau, Merveldt & Gyulai) @ 5AP, 6
x Inferior Bayonets @ 3AP, 2 x Inferior Light Infantry @ 4AP, 1 x Light Cavalry @ 5AP, 2 x Smoothbore
Field Artillery @ 8AP, 1 x Smoothbore Heavy Artillery @ 12AP.
0-1 x Wurttemburg Corps, of: 1 x subordinate CP (Prince) @ 15AP, 4-7 x Bayonets @ 4AP, 2 x Light
Infantry @ 5AP, 1 x Smoothbore Horse Artillery @ 16AP, 1 x Smoothbore Field Artillery @ 8AP.
1 x Prussian Corps, of: 1 x subordinate CP (Kleist) @ 15AP, 8 x Bayonets (Regular & Reserve) @ 4 AP, 4
x Inferior Bayonets (Landwehr) @ 3 AP, 0-1 x Elite Marksmen (Jager) @ 3AP, 2 x Light Cavalry
(Dragoons, Hussars and Uhlans) @ 5AP, 1 x Inferior Light Cavalry (Landwehr) @ 3AP, 1 x Smoothbore
Horse Artillery @ 16AP, 2 x Smoothbore Field Artillery @ 8AP, 1 x Smoothbore Heavy Artillery @ 12AP.
1-3 x Russian Corps, each of: 1 x subordinate CP (Wittgenstein, Eugen & Osterman) @ 15AP, 4 x Stoic
Foot @ 3AP, 2 x Inferior Light Infantry @ 4AP, 0-1 x Smoothbore Horse Artillery @ 16AP, 2-3 x
Smoothbore Field Artillery @ 8AP, 1 x Smoothbore Heavy Artillery @ 12AP.
0-1 x Russian Cavalry Corps, of: 1 x subordinate CP (Pahlen) @ 15AP, 1-2 x Dragoons @ 4AP, 1 x Light
Cavalry @ 5AP, 1-2 x Inferior Light Horse (Cossacks) @ 1AP. (If not used, include troops but not general
in Wittgensteins Corps.
0-1 x Austro-Bavarian Corps, of: 1 x subordinate CP (Wrede) @ 15AP,
Bavarians: 1 x Elite Bayonets @ 5AP, 10 x Bayonets @ 4AP, 0-1 x Dragoons @ 4AP, 3 x Light Cavalry @
5AP, 1 x Smoothbore Horse Artillery @ 16AP, 1 x Smoothbore Field Artillery @ 8AP, 1 x Smoothbore
Heavy Artillery @ 12AP.
Austrians: 6 x Inferior Bayonets @ 3AP, 2 x Inferior Light Infantry @ 4AP, 1 x Light Cavalry @ 5AP, 2 x
Smoothbore Field Artillery @ 8AP, 1 x Smoothbore Heavy Artillery @ 12AP.
1 x Prussian Corps, of: 1 x subordinate CP (Bulow) @ 15AP, 8 x Bayonet (Regular & Reserve) @ 4 AP, 4 x
Inferior Bayonet (Landwehr) @ 3 AP, 0-1 x Elite Marksmen (Jager) @ 3AP, 2 x Light Cavalry (Dragoons,
Hussars & Uhlans) @ 5AP, 1 x Inferior Light Cavalry (Landwehr) @ 3AP, 1 x Smoothbore Horse Artillery
@ 16AP, 1 x Smoothbore Field Artillery @ 8AP.
0-1 x Russian Corps, of: 1 x subordinate CP (Langeron) @ 15AP, 4 x Stoic Foot @ 3AP, 2 x Inferior Light
Infantry @ 4AP, 0-1 x Smoothbore Horse Artillery @ 16AP, 2-3 x Smoothbore Field Artillery @ 8AP, 1 x
Smoothbore Heavy Artillery @ 12AP.
ARMY OF SILESIA
1 x CP (Blucher) @ 15AP, 0-1 x Pontooneers @ 2AP, 0-1 x Supply Base @ 8AP.
1 x Prussian Corps, of: 1 x subordinate CP (Yorck) @ 15AP, 8 x Bayonet (Regular & Reserve @ 4 AP, 4 x
Inferior Bayonet (Landwehr) @ 3 AP, 0-1 x Elite Marksmen (Jager) @ 3AP, 2 x Light Cavalry (Dragoons,
Hussars & Uhlans) @ 5AP, 1 x Inferior Light Cavalry (Landwehr) @ 3AP, 1 x Smoothbore Horse Artillery
@ 16AP, 2 x Smoothbore Field Artillery @ 8AP, 2 x Smoothbore Heavy Artillery @ 12AP.
1-2 x Russian Corps, each of: 1 x subordinate CP (Sacken or Langeron) @ 15AP, 4 x Stoic Foot @ 3AP, 2
x Inferior Light Infantry @ 4AP, 0-1 x Smoothbore Horse Artillery @ 16AP, 2-3 x Smoothbore Field
Artillery @ 8AP, 1 x Smoothbore Heavy Artillery @ 12AP.
ARMY OF RESERVE
1x CP (Benningsen) @ 15AP, 0-1 x Pontooneers @ 2AP, 0-1 x Supply Base @ 8AP.
2-3 x Russian Corps, each of: 1 x subordinate CP (?,?, Osterman) @ 15AP, 4 x Stoic Foot @ 3AP, 2 x
Inferior Light Infantry @ 4AP, 0-1 x Smoothbore Horse Artillery @ 16AP, 2-3 x Smoothbore Field
Artillery @ 8AP, 1 x Smoothbore Heavy Artillery @ 12AP.
Notes: Prussian brigades were division-sized formations of 1 regiment each of regulars, reserves and
landwehr. The reserves being recently serving soldiers are assumed to be as good as the regulars, but were
differently uniformed, usually in grey. Russian battalions had been reduced by campaigning to 250-300
men each, so a Russian foot element now represents a brigade. Swedish cavalry are classed as inferior
because of poor horses and lack of regimental-level training. Austrian infantry are classed as inferior
because their own generals (who should know) said they were! Troops of reserve divisions have been
placed directly under the C-in-C.
I am confident of the French in spring and autumn and the Prussians in autumn, for which I have detailed
orders of battle, less so of the Austrians, least of the Swedes and Russians and the Prussians in spring 1813.
The mixing of corps in each army is confusing and I have had trouble allocating corps commanders. Any of
you who have better information on 1813 (or 1814) please advise me.
II Corps (Ligny & Waterloo only), of: 1 x subordinate CP (Pirch) @ 15AP, 4 x Bayonets @ 4AP, 2 x
Inferior Bayonets (Landwehr) @ 3AP, 1 x Light Cavalry (Hussars) @ 5AP, 1 x Inferior Light Cavalry
(Landwehr) @ 3AP, 1 x Smoothbore Horse Artillery @ 16AP, 2 x Smoothbore Field Artillery @ 8AP, 1 x
Smoothbore Heavy Artillery @ 12AP.
III Corps (Ligny & Wavre only), of: 1 x subordinate CP (Thielemann) @ 15AP, 5 x Bayonets @ 4AP, 6 x
Inferior Bayonets (Landwehr) @ 3AP, 2 x Light Cavalry (Uhlans, Hussars & Dragoons) @ 5AP, 1 x
Inferior Light Cavalry (Landwehr) @ 3AP, 1 x Smoothbore Horse Artillery @ 16AP, 1 x Smoothbore Field
Artillery @ 8AP.
IV Corps (Waterloo only), of: 1 x subordinate CP (Bulow) @ 15AP, 4 x Bayonets @ 4AP, 6 x Inferior
Bayonets (Landwehr) @ 3AP, 2 x Light Cavalry (Hussars & Uhlans) @ 5AP, 1 x Inferior Light Cavalry
(Landwehr) @ 3AP, 1 x Smoothbore Horse Artillery @ 16AP, 2 x Smoothbore Field Artillery @ 8AP, 1 x
Smoothbore Heavy Artillery @ 12AP.
FRENCH Aggression: 4
C-in-Cs Reserve (Ligny & Waterloo only): 1 x Brilliant HQ (Napoleon) @ 50AP, 4 x Elite Bayonets (Old
Guard) @ 5AP, 2 x Bayonets (Young Guard) @ 4AP, 1 x Elite Light Cavalry (Chasseurs & Lancers of the
Guard) @ 6AP, 1 x Elite Heavy Cavalry (Grenadiers, Empress Dragoons) @ 6AP, 1 x Smoothbore Horse
Artillery @ 16AP, 3 x Smoothbore Field Artillery @ 8AP, 3 x Smoothbore Heavy Artillery (includes that of
subordinate Corps) @ 12AP.
I Corps (Quatre Bras? & Waterloo only), of: 1 x subordinate CP (DErlon) @ 15AP, 8 x Bayonets @ 4AP, 1
x Light Cavalry (Lancers, Hussars & Chasseurs) @ 5AP, 2 x Smoothbore Field Artillery @ 8AP.
II Corps (Quatre Bras & Waterloo only), of: 1 x subordinate CP (Reille) @ 15AP, 6-8 x Bayonets @ 4AP, 1
x Light Cavalry (Chasseurs & Lancers) @ 5AP, 2 x Smoothbore Field Artillery @ 8AP.
III Corps (Ligny & Wavre only), of: 1 x subordinate CP (Lefol) @ 15AP, 8 (Ligny) or 6 (Wavre) x
Bayonets @ 4AP, 2 x Smoothbore Field Artillery @ 8AP.
IV Corps (Ligny & Wavre only), of: 1 x subordinate CP (Gerard) @ 15AP, 6 x Bayonets @ 4AP, 1 x Light
Cavalry (Hussars & Chasseurs) @ 5AP, 2 x Smoothbore Field Artillery @ 8AP, 0-1 x Pontooneers @ 2AP.
VI Corps (Ligny & Waterloo only), of: 1 x subordinate CP (Lobau) @ 15AP, 4 x Bayonets @ 4AP, 2 x
Light Cavalry (Chasseurs & Lancers) @ 5AP, 2 x Smoothbore Field Artillery @ 8AP.
Reserve Cavalry (Quatre Bras & Waterloo only), of: 1 x subordinate CP (Ney) @ 15AP, 4 x Cuirassiers @
7AP, 1 x Dragoons @ 4AP, 1 x Smoothbore Horse Artillery @ 16AP.
Reserve Cavalry (Ligny & Wavre only), of: 1 x subordinate CP (Grouchy) @ 15AP, 1 x Light Cavalry
(Hussars) @ 5AP, 4 x Dragoons @ 4AP, 1 x Smoothbore Horse Artillery @ 16AP.
Notes: The Anglo-Allied army includes that part of Hills II Corps detached as a flank guard, but not the
Hanoverian Reserve Corps and the British siege artillery, which were both far to the rear. The Prussian
army includes only those units that had arrived in the theatre in time to fight. If all 4 Prussian Corps had
concentrated, they would have amounted to about 425AP. The full French army if concentrated against a
single opponent amounts to about 580AP. The French troops engaged at Quatre Bras come to about 130AP,
plus 70AP of DErlons I Corps if Napoleon does not countermand their march, against Oranges I Corps of
about 100AP, later reinforced by Wellingtons Reserve Corps of 120AP. The French troops at Ligny total
about 320AP against an approximately equal value of Prussians. The French troops at Waterloo come to
about 430AP, and were opposed by 365AP of British, plus 330AP of arriving Prussians. Wavre was a
rearguard action by a single Prussian Corps of 95AP in a strong position against Grouchys 160AP arriving
off the march. These all provide a good balance of forces taking into account delayed arrival. If Napoleon is
not present, Ney or Grouchy ceases to be subordinate and commands all French forces present.
1x Inert HQ (Menschikoff 1854, Gorschakoff 1855-56) @ 10AP, 2-3 x subordinate Inert CP @ 5AP, 0-3 x
Light Cavalry (Hussars) @ 5AP, 2-5 x Inferior Light Horse (Cossacks) @ 1AP, 14-56 x Stoic Foot@ 3AP,
0-1 x Marksmen (Jager) @ 2AP, 1-3 x Smoothbore Field Artillery @ 8AP, 0-1 x Smoothbore Heavy
Artillery @ 12AP, 0-3 x Redoubts @ 5AP, 0-2 x Concealed Position @ 10AP, 0-1 x Supply Base @ 8AP, 01 x Inferior Steamer @ 6AP, 0-1 x Sail @ 6AP.
Notes: A Stoic element represents half a 4-battalion regiment. This allows equal AP field battles with the
Russians fighting against British and French at the Alma, British at Balaclava and Inkerman, Turks at
Eupatoria or French and Piedmontese at the Tchernaya. The Russians had largely discarded skirmishing as
hindering decisive action and deployed only a single jager battalion armed with an equivalent of the
unsatisfactory Brunswick rifle to each corps. Fighting in the Sebastopol siege works is not covered.
Notes: Austrians cannot include more than 6 horse artillery. Austrian brigades now consisted of a 4battalion line regiment with a jager battalion to do the skirmishing and are each simulated by 2 Minie
elements.
subordinate CP @ 15AP, 28-35 x Bayonets @ 4AP, 2-7 x Dragoons @ 4AP, 0-1 x Elite Light Horse
(Mosby & others) @ 3AP, 0-2 x Mixed Horse Artillery @ 20AP, 1 per 3-5 Bayonets x Mixed Field
Artillery @ 10AP, 0-1 x Mixed Heavy Artillery @ 15AP, 0-2 x Redoubts @ 5AP, 0-3 x Entrenchment @
10AP, 0-3 x Concealment @ 10AP, 0-1 x Pontooneers @ 2AP, 0-1 x Supply Base @ 8AP, 0-1 x Inferior
Ironclad @ 15AP, 0-1 x Inferior Steamer @ 6AP, 0-1 x Inferior Submarine @ 10AP, 0-1 x Mines @ 20AP.
Max: 571AP.
0-1 x Inert HQ (Prince Frederick Charles) @ 10AP, 0-1 x subordinate CP @ 15AP, 0-1 x Pontooneers @
2AP.
3-4 Corps, each of: 8 x BL @ 6AP, 1 x Light Cavalry (Hussars, Dragoons and Uhlans) @ 5AP, 2 x Mixed
Field Artillery @ 10AP, 1 x Mixed Horse Artillery @ 20AP, 1 x Rifled Heavy Artillery @ 18AP.
1 Corps, of: 1 x Elite Cuirassiers (Guard) @ 8AP, 2 x Cuirassiers @ 6AP, 1 x Elite Light Cavalry (Guard
Dragoons and Uhlans) @ 6AP, 2 x Light Cavalry (Dragoons, Uhlans and Hussars) @ 5AP, 1 x Mixed
Horse Artillery @ 20AP.
PRUSSIAN 2nd ARMY Aggression: 4
1 x HQ (Crown Prince) @ 20AP, 3 x Cuirassiers @ 6AP, 3 x Light Cavalry (Hussars and Uhlans) @ 5AP, 1
x Mixed Horse Artillery @ 20AP, 0-1 x Pontooneers @ 2AP.
1 Guard Corps, of: 1 x subordinate CP @ 15AP, 8 x Elite BL @ 7AP, 1 x Elite Light Cavalry (Guard
Uhlans and Hussars) @ 6AP, 3 x Mixed Field Artillery @ 10AP, 1 x Mixed Horse Artillery @ 20AP, 1 x
Rifled Heavy Artillery @ 18AP.
1-3 Corps, each of: 1 x subordinate CP @ 15AP, 8 x BL @ 6AP, 1 x Light Cavalry (Hussars, Dragoons and
Uhlans) @ 5AP, 2 x Mixed Field Artillery @ 10AP, 1 x Mixed Horse Artillery @ 20AP, 1 x Rifled Heavy
Artillery @ 18AP.
AUSTRIAN ARMY OF THE NORTH Aggression: 3
1 x HQ (Benedek) @ 20AP, 6 x Heavy Cavalry (Cuirassiers with Uhlans) @ 5AP, 5 x Light Cavalry
(Hussars) @ 5AP, 5-6 x Rifled Horse Artillery (Brass) @ 24AP, 0-1 x Pontooneers @ 2AP, 0-1 x Supply
Base @ 8AP.
1-6 Corps, each of: 1 x subordinate CP @ 15AP, 8 (1 Corps only 6) x Bayonets @ 4AP, 1 x Rifled Horse
Artillery (Brass) @ 24AP, 2 x Rifled Field Artillery (Brass) @ 12AP, 1 x Rifled Heavy Artillery (Brass) @
18AP, 0-1 x Redoubt @ 5AP.
1 Saxon Corps, of: 1 x allied CP @ 15AP, 1 x Heavy Cavalry (Reiter) @ 5AP, 1 x Light Cavalry (Hussars)
@ 5AP, 8 x Minie @ 4AP, 1 x Elite Marksmen (Jager) @ 3AP, 1 x Rifled Horse Artillery (Brass) @ 24AP,
1 x Rifled Field Artillery (Brass) @ 12AP, 2 x Rifled Heavy Artillery @ 18AP.
Notes: The size of the armies favours multi-player games with all or part of one Prussian army and part of
the other fighting all or part of the Austrians with or without the Saxons. Although Moltke (accompanied by
the Kaiser) in theory commanded all the Prussians and was present at the decisive battle of Koninggratz,
his HQ exerted little control over the two army commanders, who communicated with him only as an
afterthought. Prince Frederick Charles was hyper-cautious and kept his army concentrated under tight
control with all the cavalry behind the infantry, so in consequence had great difficulty finding the enemy.
Only one of his three original infantry corps is even listed as having a commanding general. Crown Prince
Frederick, youthful and spirited, dispersed his corps so widely that he found himself out of effective control
distance of any, listening to sounds of battle coming from two opposite directions. One 1 st Army and all 2nd
Army and Austrian Cuirassier brigades combined Cuirassiers and Uhlans. Austrian Cuirassiers no longer
wore corslets. Uhlans were tending now to be thought of as heavy cavalry because of the supposed effect of
their lance on infantry, but most were still brigaded as Light Cavalry. The Prussians tried to keep the jager
battalion in each Corps as specialist woods-fighters but found opportunities for this so limited that they
were employed as ordinary infantry. The jager battalion in each Austrian brigade was used only as its
skirmish line. Accordingly, both are assumed to be included in the standard infantry elements. Prussian
artillery was a mix of smoothbores and steel rifled breech-loaders, Austrian all brass rifled muzzle-loaders.
NORTHERN ITALY 1866 (325AP-575AP)
(Seven Weeks War)
ITALY Aggression: 3
Inert HQ (La Mamora) @ 10AP or HQ (Cialdini) @ 20AP. 0-2 x Elite Heavy Cavalry @ 7AP, 0-1 x Rifled
Horse Artillery (Brass) @ 24AP, 1-2 x Pontooneers @ 2AP, 0-1 x Supply Base @ 8AP.
3-4 Corps each of:
1 x subordinate CP @ 15AP, 1 x Light Cavalry @ 5AP, 1-2 x Elite Light Infantry (brigaded Bersaglieri) @
6AP, 1 x Rifled Heavy Artillery (Brass) @ 18AP, 3-4 Divisions each of: 4 x Bayonets @ 4AP, 1 x Rifled
Field Artillery (Brass) @ 12AP.
0-1 x Volunteer force of: ally Brilliant CP (Garibaldi) @ 50AP, 3-4 x Light Infantry @ 5AP, 1 x Elite
Marksmen (Sharpshooters) @ 3AP, 1 x Light Horse (Guides) @ 2AP, 0-1 x Rifled Field Artillery (Brass)
@ 12AP.
0-1 x Ironclad Flagship @ 30AP, 0-3 x Ironclad @ 20AP, 0-4 x I- Steamer @ 8AP.
TURKS allied to AUSTRIA Aggression: 0
18,000 + 2,000 Bashi-bazouks. 1-2 x Steamers, 0-1 x I-Steamers.
Notes: The Italians launched 3 separate simultaneous invasions of the Austrian ruled territory. The main
army was theoretically led by the elderly King, but practically by the inept La Mamora. Cialdini led a
smaller army and Garibaldi a thrust into the Tyrol, where he found no support from the population. After La
Mamora lost the battle of Custoza, Cialdini consolidated the Italian armies and pushed on against a
weakened Austrian army that had sent two corps to reinforce the Austrian army against the Prussians. The
Turks in the event only produced a distraction requiring troop to be retained in the south, but offer an
interesting what if. Austrian Grenze troops were used only in garrisons and to guard other borders. Most
Bersaglieri were dispersed in support of line infantry but 3-4 battalions were kept as a Corps reserve. All
Austrian and Italian artillery were brass muzzle-loaders.
Notes: 1st Army alone or 1st & 2nd together can fight Bazaine or 3 rd alone or 2nd & 3rd together fight
MacMahon. Many, but not all, Prussian uhlan regiments were now included in cuirassier brigades for their
reputed value against infantry in heavy rain. Though there were several naval skirmishes around the world
between German and French ships, there were no naval operations in support of the armies. However, a
projected French descent on Kiel with Danish support offers an interesting What if.
FRENCH ARMY OF THE RHINE
1 x Inert HQ (Bazaine) @ 10AP, 2 x Elite Light Cavalry (Chasseurs dAfrique) @ 6AP, 3 x Cuirassiers @
6AP, 1 x Dragoons @ 4AP, 3 x Mixed Horse Artillery @ 20AP, 0-1 x Pontooneers @ 2AP, 0-1 x Supply
Base @ 8AP.
1 x Guard Corps, of: 1 x subordinate Inert CP @ 5AP, 8 x Elite Rifles @ 8AP, 1 x Elite Cuirassiers @ 8AP,
2 x Elite Light Cavalry @ 6AP, 2 x Mixed Horse Artillery @ 20AP, 1 x Mixed Field Artillery @ 10AP, 1 x
Mixed Heavy Artillery @ 15AP.
4 x Corps (II,III,IV,VI), each of: 1 x subordinate Inert CP @ 5AP, 12 (II,IV) or 16 (III,VI) x Rifles @ 7AP,
1 x Light Cavalry (Chasseurs or Hussars) @ 5AP, 1 x Dragoons (II,III,IV) @ 4AP or Light Cavalry
(Lancers, VI only) @ 5AP, 0-1 x Dragoons (III only) @ 4AP or Cuirassiers (VI only) @ 6AP, 1 x Mixed
Horse Artillery @ 20AP, 3 (II,IV) or 4 (III,VI) x Mixed Field Artillery @ 10AP, 1 x Mixed Heavy Artillery
@ 15AP.
FRENCH ARMY OF CHALONS
1 x Inert HQ (MacMahon) @ 10AP, 0-1 x Pontooneers @ 2AP, 0-1 x Supply Base @ 8AP.
3 x Corps (I,V,XII), each of: 1 x subordinate Inert CP @ 5AP, 12 (V,XII) or 16 (I) x Rifles @ 7AP, 0-1 x
Cuirassiers (I,XII only) @ 6AP, 0-1 x Light Cavalry (Hussars & Chasseurs I,V only) @ 5AP or Cuirassiers
(XII only) @ 6AP, 1 x Light Cavalry (Lancers I,V,XII) @ 5AP, 1 x Mixed Horse Artillery @ 20AP, 3
(V,XII) or 4 (I) x Mixed Field Artillery @ 10AP, 1 x Mixed Heavy Artillery @ 15AP.
FRENCH NAVY Aggression: 2
0-1 x Ironclad Flagship @ 30AP, 0-3 x Ironclad @ 20AP, 0-3 x I-Steamer @ 6AP.
Notes: Much confusion has been caused by rifled guns being called by the weight of the cannon ball they
would have fired if they had been smoothbore. The French nominal 4pdr fired a 9-pound and the 12pdr a
16-pound shell. Mitrailleuses are not distinguished from other French Field Artillery, but 1 model can
replace a 4pdr model of each corps for added colour.
the Serbs for trying to make them do exactly what they did not want to do fight. They showed this dislike
by running away after each setback. Masses of Russian volunteer troops crossed the border in civilian
clothes to stiffen the Serbs in the final battle, to no avail. For once, the local Turkish field command was in
the hands of competent junior generals who quickly defeated the invaders, but were prevented from
counter-invading by inertia at Constantinople followed by diplomatic pressure by the great powers.
@ 5AP, 0-1 x Pontooneers @ 2AP, 0-1 x Ironclad (centre-battery) @ 20AP, 0-2 x Inferior Ironclad (small
monitors) @ 15AP, 0-3 x Steamer @ 8AP.
0-1 x British Naval Squadron (1878 only), of: 1 x Ironclad Flagship @ 30AP, 2-4 x Ironclad @ 20AP.
Notes: The Turks lost this war because of the incapacity of practically all senior commanders and their
staffs. The Russian commanders were merely mediocre and un-enterprising. Turkish regular Nizam infantry
were fine troops with good Martini rifles. Reserve Redif were usually good, but often had obsolete rifles.
Mustafiz were vile untrained troops but were issued with the Martini. Rapid desertion kept their numbers
down. Bashi-bazouks were totally devoid of fighting value, though players may like to have a group or two
looting and burning villages! Turkish artillery was light but modern rifled breechloaders and outranged the
Russian brass guns. Russian guards, grenadiers and jager had modern Berdan rifles, but most infantry had
obsolete Krenks outranged by the Martini. Russian dragoons fought almost entirely dismounted. They outranged the Winchester-armed Turkish cavalry, who avoided them. Nearly all the naval fighting was on the
Danube. A British naval squadron threatened to force the Dardanelles at the end of the war unless the
Russians came to terms and the Russians made active preparations to resist it before the Czar got cold feet.
The current runs strongly out of the Black Sea, so the Russians would have been upstream.
EGYPT 1882 (175AP)
(Tel-el-Kebir)
BRITISH Aggression: 4
1 x Brilliant HQ (Wolselsey) @ 50AP, 1 x Heavy Cavalry @ 5AP, 1 x Light Cavalry (Indian) @ 5AP, 1 x
Elite Rifles @ 8AP, 6 x Rifles @ 7AP, 1 x BL (Indian) @ 6AP, 1 x Rifled Horse Artillery @ 24AP, 1 x
Rifled Field Artillery @ 12AP, 1 x Rifled Heavy Artillery @ 18AP.
EGYPTIAN Aggression: 2
1 x HQ (Arabi Pasha) @ 20AP, 10 x Inferior BL @ 4AP, 1 x Inferior Light Cavalry @ 3AP, 1 x Inferior
Light Horse @ 1AP (Bedouin), 3 x Rifled Field Artillery @ 12AP, 3 x Redoubts @ 5AP, 4 x Entrenchment
@ 15AP.
Notes: Bare flat desert, with transverse low ridge, one flank resting on canal and village, other on rough
going.
1 x CP (Gutscheff or Prince Alexander) @ 15AP, 4-21 x Bayonets @ 5AP, 1 x Inferior Bayonets (Robbers
Brigade) @ 3AP, 0-4 x Inferior Bayonets (Macedonian Volunteers) @ 3AP, 1 x Inferior Light Horse
(Mounted Irregulars) @ 1AP, 0-2 x Light Cavalry @ 5AP, 2-4 x Rifled Field Artillery @ 12AP, 0-4 x
Entrenchments @ 15AP, 0-3 x Redoubts @ 5AP, 0-1 x Supply Base @ 8AP.
SERBIAN
1 x HQ (King Milan & Taplovitch) @ 20AP, 9-19 x BL @ 6AP, 0-1 x Rifled Horse Artillery (Brass) @
24AP, 1-2 x Light Cavalry @ 5AP, 2-4 x Rifled Field Artillery (Brass) @ 12AP, 0-1 x Rifled Heavy
Artillery (Brass) @ 18AP, 0-1 x Pontooneers @ 2AP, 0-1 x Supply Base @ 8AP.
Russia instigated a revolt in Turkish East Roumelia, but was incensed when the inhabitants chose to join
Bulgaria instead of Russia. They regarded the Bulgarians acquiescence as ingratitude for their own
liberation from the Turks by Russia, so instigated a Serbian invasion of Bulgaria to bring them to heel,
described by a British contemporary as hopefully the third and last of Serbias wicked wars of
aggression. The Bulgarians were caught by surprise with most of their army facing Turkey. A well dug-in
scratch force under a Major Gutscheff defeated one of the two Serbian thrusts at Slivnitza and went over to
the offensive even before the rest of the army arrived. The Serbs were rapidly expelled by a series of
battles. Bulgaria counter-invaded but was forced to withdraw by threats from Austria. The Serbians had 2 ndhand obsolete Russian artillery, the Bulgarians modern German. The Bulgarians were extremely fond of the
bayonet.
Rifles (Irregulars) @ 5AP, 0-4 x Elite Rifles (Guards) @ 8AP, 4-32 x Rifles @ 7AP, 0-2 x Rifled Horse
Artillery @ 24AP, 1-3 x Rifled Field Artillery @ 12AP, 0-1 x Heavy Rifled Artillery (Heavy and long naval
guns) @ 20AP, 0-1 x Aeronauts (Balloon) @ 25AP, 0-1 x Pontooneers @ 2AP, 0-1 x Supply Base @ 8AP.
BOER Aggression: 1
1 x Inert HQ (Joubert) @ 10AP or HQ (Cronje) @ 20AP or Brilliant CP (Botha) @ 50AP or CP (Others) @
15AP, 0-1 x subordinate Inert CP (Fourie) @ 5AP or CP (Prinsloo) @ 15AP, 0-1 x subordinate Brilliant CP
(De la Rey) @ 50AP, 4-9 x Elite Mounted Rifles (Transvaalers) @ 10AP, 0-3 x Mounted Rifles (Orange
Free Staters only with Fourie or Prinsloo) @ 8AP, 0-2 x Rifles @ 7AP, 0-1 x Rifled Horse Artillery @
24AP, 1 x Laager @ 4AP, 0-6 x Entrenchment @ 15AP, 0-3 x Concealment @ 10 AP.
Notes: Which British generals qualify as Inert is a matter of opinion. I opt for White, somewhat
surprisingly Roberts, Kitchener, most of Bullers subordinates, but Buller himself, who was more spinned
against by Roberts than sinning. I have rounded up the Boer artillery to allow a single element to simulates
its nuisance value. Symons can only be used in 60AP games. The British 15pdr gun actually fired a 14
pound shell, so is not classed as heavy.
MANCHURIA 1904-5
(Russo-Japanese War)
RUSSIAN Aggression: 1
1 x Inert HQ @ 10AP, 1 x Aeronauts (Balloon) @ 25AP, 0-3 x Rifled Heavy Artillery @ 18AP, 0-3 x
Redoubts @ 5AP, 0-6 x Entrenchment @ 10 AP, 0-1 x Concealment @ 10AP, 0-1 x Supply Base @ 8AP, 01 x Ironclad Flagship @ 30AP, 0-2 x Ironclad @ 20AP, 0-2 x Inferior Ironclad @ 15AP, 0-1 x Flotilla @
3AP.
0-1 x Cavalry Corps, of 1 x subordinate Inert CP @ 5AP, 0-2 x Dragoons @ 4AP, 12-16 x Inferior
Dragoons (Cossacks) @ 2AP, 2-3 x Rifled Horse Artillery @ 24AP.
0-6 x European Corps, each 1 x subordinate Inert CP @ 5AP, 12 x Inferior Stoic Foot @ 2 AP, 6 x Rifled
Field Artillery @ 12AP.
2-7 x Siberian Corps, each 1 x subordinate Inert CP @ 5AP, 4 x Stoic Foot @ 3AP, 1 x Rifled Horse
Artillery @ 24AP.
JAPANESE Aggression: 4
1 x HQ @ 20AP, 3-4 x subordinate CP @ 15AP, 1-2 x Inferior Repeaters @ 4AP, 2-12 x Elite Rifles
(Guard) @ 8AP, 46-144 x Rifles @ 7AP, 2 x Rifled Field Artillery @ 12AP per 12 Elite Rifles and Rifles,
1-2 x Rifled Heavy Artillery @ 18AP, 0-3 x Concealment @ 10AP, 0-1 x Pontooneers @ 2AP, 0-1 x Supply
Base @ 8AP, 0-1 x Ironclad Flagship @ 30AP, 0-3 x Ironclads @ 20 AP, 0-3 x Flotilla @ 3AP.
Notes: At Liao-Yang 1 cavalry, 2 European, 5 Siberian Corps. Japs 1 st Army, 2nd Army, 4th Army, reserve of
1div + Cav Bde.
0-1 x Bulgarian Division (1 st BW only) of: 1 x allied CP @ 15AP, 16-24 x Rifles @ 7AP, 4 x Rifled Field
Artillery @ 12AP.
0-1 x Montenegrin Division (2nd BW only) of: 1 x allied CP @ 15AP, 12-15 x Rifles @ 7AP, 1 x Mixed
Artillery (Mountain guns and Maxims) @ 10AP
GREEK ARMY OF THESSALY Aggression: 3
1 x Brilliant HQ (Konstantinos) @ 50AP or HQ @ 20AP, 0-1 x Inferior Rifle Cavalry @ 7AP, 2 x Elite
Rifles (Evzones) @ 8AP, 0-2 x Rifles (Garibaldi Brigade) @ 7AP, 0-1 x Elite Marksmen (Proskopoi) @
3AP, 4 x Rifled Field Artillery @ 12AP, 1-2 x Rifled Heavy Artillery @ 18AP, 0-1 x Aeronauts (Farman) @
25AP, 0-1 x Pontooneers @ 2AP, 0-1 x Supply Base @ 8AP, 0-1 x Ironclad Flagship (Armoured Cruiser)
@ 30AP, 0-3 x Inferior Ironclads @ 15AP, 0-3 x Flotilla (Destroyers) @ 3AP, 0-1 x Submarine @ 20AP, 01 x Concealed Position @ 10AP.
4-9 x Divisions, each of: 1 x subordinate CP @ 15AP, 9 x Rifles @ 7AP, 1 x Rifled Field Artillery @ 12AP.
GREEK ARMY OF EPIROS Aggression: 3
0-1 x Brilliant HQ (Konstantinos only if 4 divisions) @ 50AP, 0-1 x Pontooneers @ 2AP, 0-1 x Supply
Base @ 8AP, 0-1 x Aeronauts (Farman) @ 25AP.
1 x Division of: 1 x CP @ 15AP or subordinate CP @ 15AP, 4 x Elite Rifles (Evzones) @ 8AP, 4 x Rifles
@ 7AP, 0-1 x Elite Marksmen (Proskopoi) @ 3AP, 1 x Rifled Field Artillery @ 12AP.
0-3 x Divisions, each of: 1 x subordinate CP @ 15AP, 9 x Rifles @ 7AP, 1 x Rifled Field Artillery @ 12AP.
MONTENEGRO (1st BW only) Aggression: 4
1 x HQ @ 20AP, 0-1 x Inferior Light Horse (Mounted Scouts) @ 1AP, 3 x Rifled Field Artillery @ 12AP.
1-3 x Divisions, each of: 1 x subordinate CP @ 15AP, 12-15 x Rifles @ 7AP, 1 x Mixed Artillery
(Mountain guns and Maxims) @ 10AP.
0-1 x Serbian Division, of: 1 x allied CP @ 15AP, 12 x BL @ 6AP, 1 x Rifled Field Artillery @ 12AP.
ROMANIA (2nd BW only) Aggression: 3
1 x HQ @ 20AP, 1 x Rifled Heavy Artillery @ 18AP, 0-1 x Pontooneers @ 2AP, 0-1 x Supply Base @ 8AP.
1 x Cavalry Division of: 1 x subordinate CP @ 15AP, 5 x Light Cavalry @ 5AP, 1 x Rifled Horse Artillery
@ 24AP.
5 x Corps, each of 1 x subordinate CP @ 15AP, 28-42 x Rifles @ 7AP, 6 x Rifled Field Artillery @ 12AP, 1
x Inferior Light Cavalry @ 3AP.
TURKISH
1 x Inert HQ @ 10AP, 0-5 x subordinate CP @ 15AP, 1 per CP x Inferior Light Cavalry @ 3AP, 2 per CP x
Rifles @ 7AP, 1-2 x Rifled Heavy Artillery @ 18AP, 0-1 x Rifled Horse Artillery @ 24AP. 1 x Aeronauts
(Farman) @ 25AP, 0-6 x Entrenchments @ 15AP, 0-1 x Supply Base @ 8AP.
1-12 x Divisions, each of: 9 x Rifles (Nizams) @ 7AP, 2 x Rifled Field Artillery @ 12AP.
1-8 x Divisions, each of: 3-9 x Inferior Rifles (Redifs) @ 5AP, 1-2 x Rifled Field Artillery @ 12AP.
TURKISH FLEET (Available only against Greek Army of Thessaly or Bulgarians).
0-1 x Ironclad Flagship @ 30AP, 0-1 x Ironclad @ 20AP, 0-2 x Inferior Ironclad @ 15AP, 0-2 x Steamer
(Cruiser) @ 8AP, 0-1 x Flotilla (Destroyers etc.) @ 3AP.
Notes: In the 1st Balkan War, Bulgaria, Serbia Montenegro and Greece separately invaded Turkish-held
Macedonia and Thrace. In the 2nd, Bulgaria, dissatisfied with her share of the loot, unsuccessfully invaded
Serbia and Greece, but was invaded by Romania from the north and Turkey from the east, losing nearly all
her gains. Serbians and Greeks had previously lost badly to Turkey, in 1875 and 1897 respectively. The
Romanians were convinced they had saved the Russian army from defeat by the Turks in 1877-88, so their
morale was high. The Bulgarian army was extremely efficient in battle, but in a long campaign suffered
from their appalling level of hygiene and the inability of their supply system to cope.
Weather in Thrace during the fighting season was very hot and drinkable water scarce, the countryside
khaki, drab and bare with hardly a bush, the hills bare, yellow, gloomy and grassless, all stones rounded,
and the roads all bad and incredibly deep in mud when it did rain. Occasional ravines were choked with a
jungle of vines and almond trees. Ethnically Turkish and ethnically Bulgarian villages were intermixed.
Bulgarian villages had houses with red tile roofs, whitewashed walls and shutters, but the street an unpaved
sewer. The main crop was cabbage. Turkish villages were described as a garbage-ridden chaos of reedthatched houses, straw stacks, thorn fences, cur dogs and prolifically flowering roses, often with cemeteries
of small un-inscribed pointy-topped obelisks leaning at all angles under poplars and willows.
Turkish cavalry were useless, badly led, unwilling to dismount and poor at scouting. They were under
orders to avoid enemy cavalry. Bulgarian cavalry were poor horsemen on mediocre horses, poor at scouting
and pursued by dismounting and shooting. Serbian cavalry were good horsemen on good Hungarian horses
but only fought dismounted. They did little scouting until they realised the Turkish cavalry would always
try to avoid them. Their cavalry division was slow because it included an infantry regiment. Greek cavalry
were few, efficient both mounted and dismounted, but incompetently led. Regular (Rosiori) Romanian
cavalry carried lances. Romanian militia (Kalarasi) cavalry did not. All cavalry in this war had magazine
carbines. Classification as Repeater or Mounted Rifle or Light Cavalry and as BL or Rifle depends on
national doctrine rather than on weapon ballistics. All nations had very similar artillery pieces. The Turks
used only direct fire, the Greeks tried indirect but gave it up, and others used mostly indirect fire. Bulgarian
logistics were based entirely on carts with 4 very large wheels and a rounded hood of woven reeds hauled
by 2 greyish-white oxen. The option for laager is to provide a role for a few 12-oxen wagons carrying a
machine gun in a beehive armoured turret! These were intended for a more active role but bogged down
before they got to the front.
Because of her ascendancy over the Turkish fleet, only recently reinforced by the ex-German Brandenburgclass battleships Heireddin Barbarossa and Torgut Reis, and her great superiority over all the lesser ships of
the 2 navies, the famous Greek heavy armoured cruiser Georgios Averoff is not classed as inferior despite
the start of the Dreadnaught era elsewhere. The Turkish Messoudieh (an old centre battery ship whose
impressive fore and aft turrets still housed only wooden dummy 9.2 guns) and Assari Tewfik, and the
Greek Hydra, Spetses and Psara are classed as Inferior Ironclads. The Turkish protected cruisers Medjidieh
and Hamidieh are classed as Steamers.
COMMENTS
For those still downloading from Richards site who havent yet got the news, the primary site for HFG is
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as a WORD document.
You will see that I have been forced to acknowledge that most of you prefer larger tables and have made
this the default. This has necessitated changes in deployment procedures and march movement that will
now need testing. The next version will probably be in late-October or early November, after I get back
from a Black Sea cruise during which I hope to see some of the Bulgarian battlefields. This will probably
split the rules proper and the lists into separate documents.
I have added to the Napoleonic lists, most notably with the Waterloo campaign and finally produced 1870.
The next version is planned to include French Revolutionary and early Napoleonic wars. It takes roughly a
week to prepare lists for each war, even when a lot of preliminary research has already been done, so sorry
if your favoured war has not been dealt with yet. I want to finish the basing section when I get time, with
options for all sizes of figures on 25mm base sizes, but that is involving a lot of work.
Suggestions, comments and criticisms of rules and lists are very welcome. Ideally, you should send me a
brief report on each game you play, to my current email address of pc.barker@blueyonder.co.uk, which is
now operational. The old cableinet address is now dead. Do not assume that everything from net discussion
groups will necessarily be forwarded to me. Material arriving is still mostly from the same stalwarts. Very
few reports do not lead to some changes in the rules. More would still be useful. In particular, use of
aeronauts and naval is so far largely unexplored.
My thanks to all those that have provided input so far, and I am especially grateful to Kostas
Konstantoulakis and Spiros Koumoussis for their 18 email pages of detailed information on 1912-13! I also
have to report that HFG has already inspired new ranges of 15mm figures for the Balkan wars. I have seen
some of the Greeks, Bulgarians and Turks, which are both accurate and full of character. Contact:
S.Koumoussis, 34 Ithakis Str., P.Kokkinia 182 33, Piraeus, Hellas-Greece,
or
skoumousis@hotmail.com.
Phil Barker.