Hi Bill Yes indeed Mercer of the RHA. He said in his memoirs of the time his troop was ordered to move from behind Hougomont up to the main ridge during the...
Mark Great email. I was sitting thinking about the numeorus quotes about the effect of artillery hits on the reverse slope. Your long summary includes many of ...
Initially, my hat is off to the discussants and their reliance upon primary source material, or as close to it as one can get. So, of course, I'm going to...
FWIW, Dr Jay Luvaas of USAWC did caution us budding Army Staff Ride Instructors to take eyewitness reports with a grain of salt, especially as regards...
Michael, Strangely enough it is Adkin who suggests that two thirds of the Allied casualties came from artillery fire! His detailed piece about the bombardment...
Mark spot on again. The Adkin book is really terriffic - but you make a very valid point - the bombardment/casualties section is mainly concerned with the...
Mark: There is a lot of reasons to see artillery as that distructive. Napoleon didn't call it "the queen of battle" for nothing. A number of the examples ...
Bill, These are good points, which I don't see as being argumentative at all. I apologise in advance if any of these answers are just stating the obvious. I...
Mark/Bill Here is another interesting occurence at Waterloo : at the time of the French Cavalry attacks Ensign Leeke in Adam's brigade recalls : "I saw a shot...
Mark: No problem. Me, I need the obvious laid out for me. And you did it well. You answered all my questions. Having walked on the rise where the Grand Battery...
While I cringe at asking this question, I don't suppose anyone has an account from the French side that says exactly what their intent was, do we? Because as...
... eroding strength because of stray shots behind not so steep crests is hard to represent in this kind of system. Beeing in the last measures of finishing a...
... I saw something about the shots passing over etc... Gunners were trained to bounce shots, in fact they will purposely aim forward of targets to do that...
Bill The 'Recit du General Dessales' is the only primary source I know of since he commanded the massed battery after the original commanding officer was ...
[So, we're discussing arty, and I can throw a bomb. Pun intended.] Thanks for the responses on Adkin by those who've read it more recently. It does lead me...
Michael If the French had an operational doctrinal option that, put in its simplest terms, fired cannon in salvoes with the primary intention of shaking the...
From an Anthropological point of view, and see also some recent books on Napoleonic tactics, rubbing on pig fat mixed with red ochre, putting bones in your...
Precisely . . . Regards, /// Bill /// Wilbur E. Gray ... Bill The 'Recit du General Dessales' is the only primary source I know of since he commanded the...
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Well, there's one way to differentiate artillery. It ain't much, but it was my idea. In the current version of F&F, whether at battalion or brigade level,...
I remember posting on the subject of artillery in wargames some time ago. It is one of the most difficult things to represent on the tabletop accurately and I...
Mark: I've been working with a friend in developing some Napoleonic rules and have ... We are dealing with this 'beaten zone' or area receiving 'random fire'...
Bill - In case you are not aware of them, the Huzzah! rules, available free on the net (see link below) use the the concept of threat zones extensively. ...
Mark and Bill, A great discussion and time to think outside the box. Trying to stay within the rules is very difficult as the concept of area fire/beaten zone...
Dan: Howdy--Yes, I am. I like them, but we're handling artillery differently. So, there are games that do have 'beaten zones' after a fashion. Best Regards, ...
Rich: After thirty years of gaming, and simulation design, and monkeying with a zillion other game designs, I have come to the conclusion that one shouldn't ...
Bill Good points again. I will just expand on a couple my original thoughts that you picked up, and my ideas behind them. If the fire is directed at an area...
... I think this is a very interesting idea that would be worth pursuing. ... Yes, in the same way that you combine all FP directed at a specific unit, no...
... but it was ... level, Rich has ... in disorder ... from inf. ... pun] ... Wow. And Rich H. was running around calling it the "Rick Caras rule"...Mike you...
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