I am building armies for the Liberation period including French.
The "Cuirassier Brigade (1813)" has 2 Cuirassier or Carabinier units and 2 Horse BTY's. 2 Horse BTY's seems overly generous. Indeed I have just checked Nafziger's lists for Leipzig in "Napoleon at Leipzig", and an average would be closer to less than 1 Horse BTY per brigade.
Is the 2 Horse BTY's a typo?
David W
Yass Oz
No, it's not a typo, just an attempt at play balance while trying to stay within the realm of the possible.
The 1813 French cavalry is such a poor, skeletal little wraith of a force that I wanted to compensate them in some way - other than giving more cavalry, which obviously isn't very 1813.
So a reasonable approach, to my mind, was to add another artillery battery. I've noticed that a great many French infantry divisions in 1813 had horse artillery attached, and that the corps reserve had additional horse artillery, so I rationalize it by saying that the Cavalry is here, and you have more than the typical allotment of horse artillery in support.
Good; just wanted to be sure before I committed to buying all those guns in 25mm! And limbers of course.
Thanks
I actually bought figures before getting the lists. I ended up with 12 curas stands but not enough guns for an 1813 list :P
Got a monster batch of 32 guns with limbers on my desk at the moment!
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