Saturday, 7 September 2019

Rosenheim Campaign – The Armies


The Austrian Army

I like the Austrians, they are colourful and look good on the wargames table. 
They are also the most successful army in the 1813 campaign.

This is the seventh campaign in Southern Germany, and the Austrians have won all six.  There are ten armies in the campaign, and this is the only one who have achieved this win rate.   The French Guard have only won five of their seven campaigns.

They are a very colourful army, with many different types of troops.   The infantry alone have grenadier, line, jager and militia brigades.   All hussars look good, but Austrian ones particularly so.   Even the dragoons look different with their yellow and black headgear.   Despite this their morale and combat ability is exactly the same as all armies in the campaign.

Third French Army



Of the five French armies in the 1813 campaign, this is the only one which has no French brigades at all (other than some gunners and hussars pretending to be Bavarian and Baden).

I have always liked the light blue Bavarian uniforms, which make the dark blue of the Baden corps look quite drab.   With the white Austrian uniforms they also make for a very colourful wargames table.

2 comments:

  1. Very nice looking armies. I too have a soft spot for my Austrians. I was wondering why the corps nearest the camera has all of the light infantry - or with organisation at this level do you noy differentiate between line nad light troops?

    It should be an interesting campaign with Germans against Austrians.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Hi Bob

    My understanding is that an Austrian army usually had an "advance guard" corps, consisting of light infantry and cavalry. This was similar to Wellington's Light Division in the Peninsular, though probably not as elite.

    I try to balance each army overall in both numbers and quality. I also try to make each corps capable of fighting on its own. For this reason the Austrian "advance guard" is similar in size to the other three corps. I understand that historically it should be weaker.

    It makes for a more interesting wargame when one side has a greater number of light troops, and then has the disadvantage of less light troops with the other corps.

    I should also explain that we don't actually field skirmishers in our rules. Each brigade has a skirmish ability ranging from A to C. Jagers or Riflemen would be A or B. Line brigades would be B or C. Conscript or militia brigades would be C.

    Hope that this explains the reason for the unbalanced looking brigade?

    regards

    Paul

    ReplyDelete

I have set the settings for comments to come to me before posting so that I will not miss any