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I think that's one point about fortress artillery. They rarely practiced, so slow and innacurate. Against that, they had nearly infinite ammunition and powder and were well protected from return fire.

You see one gun for 500 men in these OOBs and you wonder how men survived. Then you read that the battle opened with a cannonade and when the fire dropped off, one side or another made an attack. Why weren't they slaughtered with cannister? Because the barrels were hot. San Martin cast his own 4 pdr...

It was also the shit roads and the shit weather. More troops died of consumption during the seige than in action. But spoked wheels for a 24 pdr were probably outside anyone's experience.

For this it might be hard to get good draught horses, in Chile oxen were often used.

I have no idea how relevant it is, but a contemporary picture of naval guns in a land fortress at Concepciopn in Chile, ca 1809 shows a man in a 18th C artillery uniform apparently directing with a telescope in hand and a mixture of civvies and men in the uniform of the local militia Bn doing all th...

What shade of blue?

Are you an Essex miniature?

Famous last words.

I'm just going to have a few for skirmish, next it's Borodino and Alamein at 1:1.

Good thing it's not 300mm, they are making swastikas illegal here in Aus. I think the FOW website has a painting guide.

My Timpo paras had bright red berets. Maybe they were bloody MPs?