Russian Line Horse Artillery - Perry and Commissar 28mm

Russian Line Horse Artillery this week, from Perry and Commissar Miniatures. The two guns on the left are Commissar - I believe I bought them before Perry released their own Russian Horse Artillery, which are the four guns on the right. The Commissar figures are slightly smaller and have gloves, but otherwise roughly compatible.

Russian Horse Artillery wore the same horsehair crest helmets as the Russian Dragoons, switching to Shakos in 1814, which was after most Napoleonic actions involving Russians had concluded. 

Russian Line Artillery - Perry 28mm

A dozen Russian artillery pieces, 8x6 pounders and 4x10 pounder unicorns. The Russians had a lot of artillery so the heavy,  horse and guard artillery still to come in future posts!  The unicorn was the Russian alternative to the howitzer, being something of a cross between a howitzer and a regular cannon, with longer muzzle, flatter trajectory and greater range. There was little practical difference in effect worth noting for the purpose of wargames rules by my reading though. 

Russian line batteries had 12 pieces so at 1:1 scale this would be a single battery. In practice often only sections would be deployed, with other guns left in reserve.

More Russian Line Infantry - Perry 28mm

More Russian line infantry, here we have the 19th Division from Borodino, with each unit representing a regiment, and minus the Jagers.

Same principle as the previous post of Russian Line Infantry, these are all Perry figures, and like them this division was chosen because they retained the earlier white flags which had more variety.

And a slightly closer up view of one of the units.

This lot also brings me to over 550 Russian infantry painted, and over 4000 Napoleonic infantry painted in total. :)

Russian Jager Skirmishers - Perry 28mm

I'm resuming posting of my Russians on a weekly basis, as many more units have been painted since my last post in January. I've now painted a sizable force equal to the half the army at Borodino if fighting at at 1/50 ratio (Regimental scale), or the whole army at 1/100 ratio (Brigade scale). 

I'll start by posting some humble skirmishing Jager, these are Perry metal models, useful in games where individual units are representing battalions or regiments rather than Brigades. They make six variants in a pack so this is 4 packs of them. On the larger bases to protect the muskets as usual for my skirmish bases.