Irishhighlander: November 2021

Tuesday 9 November 2021

The Battle of Oudenarde,July 11,1708

Another battle from Wargames illustrated December 2018, using WSS period. In other words, more 18th century battles I can fight on the table top.

The forces are

France:

23 Battalions of infantry: French, Swiss,

4 Squadrons of Dragoons

26 Squadrons of Horse

An Artillery battery. 4 guns

The Allied army

British: 16 Battalions of infantry, and Artillery

Prussians: 20 Squadrons of Horse

So if I don't have all of them, I can have the battle set up for what I do have, and perhaps later in the day.

The Battle of Pechory 1701

Article from Wargames illustrated December 2018, a Private of the Pskovski Regiment.

A smaller Great Northern War battle I plan on doing.

The Russians consist of

12th Streltsi Regiment

10th Streltsi Regiment

These older style regiments are drilled.

Butyrski Regiment

Ingermanlanski Regiment

Pskovski Regiment

All the flintlock regiments above are new recruits

2 Cossack battalions new recruits. These will be the French Canadien milice types I have plus some Couroer de Bois types for that rugged look.

2 Cossack squadrons, Elites, but also new

2 Squadrons dismounted dragoons, drilled

1 field gun in a defensive position.

I have these figures painted for my Anglo-american armies but their uniforms were similar. The coats are a mix of Red faced Blue or Green faced Red.

The Swedish

4 Squadrons of Horse, Veterans and Drilled

1 light gun on a sled

1 composite battalion of Grenadiers, which include Swedish foot guards, and Grenadiers, all Elites

4 battalions of infantry:

Sodermanland

Nanke Varmland

Kalmar

Vastmanland.

These Swedish battalions are in blue coats faced yellow usually.

These units are both pike and shot, so can mix in the older 1640 types. And as it's the winter I'm sure the mix in uniform colours would indicate whatever is keeping them warm.

I have enough 18th century style figures that I should be able to get a battle on a table before it gets cold.

A note on my sources. I had bought the Osprey publishing books Peter the Great's Army both the Infantry and Calvary books.

However, when I moved back to Nova Scotia, I had to sell some of the books I had in order to buy food for my children. However I have found an online book service where I can access them again.

Update 2/2022:

A spell of very cold and wet weather is delaying my gamming. This will be one of my spring projects but I need to dry out the place after snow melt.

Russian line

These fellows shot better than expected

Swedish advance

The battle played out with some interesting situations.

While the Swedish were able to advance and began to rip apart the Russian front, a massive volley from the Russian militia, cavalry and the lone gun inflicted so many casualties on the Sweds and as such they lost heart and fell back, but not before the Cossacks in the Russian l8nes fell back.