Barry, how many guns does a single model represet?
Some rules that I've played in the past count each artillery man as number of actual pieces. Have you done something similar?
The fact that an infantry or cavalry figures represents 35 real men I would be surprised if a gun model represents one gun, especially with Barry's previous reply that an infantry brigade should only have one model to represent all the battalion guns. If that's the case then we will need about 180 artillery models for our Malplaquet refight.
Actually it says "Artillery operates as single gun models" which I would think means that you don't need three bases of guns to represent a
battery, one will be just fine.
The scale would follow the same guidelines as for the infantry and cavalry, so for malplaquet you would need about five guns, maybe a few more for the looks of it
Yes, indeed, the whole idea is that artillery did not operate in batteries a la Napoleonic Wars ( 6 x 8pdr + 2 x Howitzers) but rather as individual guns or a pair together somewhere in the battle line. It would be safe to assume that a gun model represents more than a single gun but not much more!
Artillery's main effect is nuisance value and morale testing for targets hit. I wouldn't go over the score on battalion guns. My recommmendation is more towards 1 perhaps 2 per brigade maximum but operating individually.
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Barry, So how many guns will we need to represent the 20 pieces that raked the Dutch Guards at Malpaquet? plus we have the 40 piece gun line that the allies formed against the woods.
