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by grizzlymc
Sun Sep 17, 2023 11:52 pm
Forum: Wargames Wittering
Topic: Artillery for town walls - SYW
Replies: 34
Views: 2003

Re: Artillery for town walls - SYW

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.
by grizzlymc
Sun Sep 17, 2023 9:42 am
Forum: Wargames Wittering
Topic: Artillery for town walls - SYW
Replies: 34
Views: 2003

Re: Artillery for town walls - SYW

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...
by grizzlymc
Sun Sep 17, 2023 9:19 am
Forum: Wargames Wittering
Topic: Artillery for town walls - SYW
Replies: 34
Views: 2003

Re: Artillery for town walls - SYW

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.
by grizzlymc
Sun Sep 17, 2023 4:13 am
Forum: Wargames Wittering
Topic: Artillery for town walls - SYW
Replies: 34
Views: 2003

Re: Artillery for town walls - SYW

For this it might be hard to get good draught horses, in Chile oxen were often used.
by grizzlymc
Sun Sep 17, 2023 12:31 am
Forum: Wargames Wittering
Topic: Artillery for town walls - SYW
Replies: 34
Views: 2003

Re: Artillery for town walls - SYW

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...
by grizzlymc
Sat Sep 16, 2023 11:12 pm
Forum: Wargames Wittering
Topic: Artillery for town walls - SYW
Replies: 34
Views: 2003

Re: Artillery for town walls - SYW

What shade of blue?
by grizzlymc
Wed Aug 30, 2023 1:28 pm
Forum: Loose Trading
Topic: (Wanted) Old School Ancients Lamming/Hinchliffe/Essex
Replies: 20
Views: 2017

Re: (Wanted) Old School Ancients Lamming/Hinchliffe/Essex

Are you an Essex miniature?
by grizzlymc
Wed Aug 30, 2023 12:37 pm
Forum: Wargames Wittering
Topic: Painting SS
Replies: 4
Views: 482

Re: Painting SS

Famous last words.

I'm just going to have a few for skirmish, next it's Borodino and Alamein at 1:1.
by grizzlymc
Tue Aug 29, 2023 12:25 pm
Forum: Wargames Wittering
Topic: Painting SS
Replies: 4
Views: 482

Re: Painting SS

Good thing it's not 300mm, they are making swastikas illegal here in Aus. I think the FOW website has a painting guide.
by grizzlymc
Mon Aug 28, 2023 2:10 pm
Forum: The Gallery
Topic: British paras - WW2
Replies: 13
Views: 996

Re: British paras - WW2

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