Friday, 16 October 2026

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.








14 comments:

  1. Very fine park of artillery there, Mark! It seems that maybe the 12-gun 'battery' (company?) offered more flexibility - owing to a willingness to subdivide the unit to carry out specific tasks - than the smaller 6 or 8 gun units. Napoleon thought 4-gun batteries were ideal, and wanted to reorganise his ordnance in that way. The problem was the lack of logistic battery appurtenances sufficient for a wholesale reorganisation put rather a kibosh on that scheme.
    Cheers,
    Ion.

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  2. Nice work and they look impressive all ranked up.

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  3. Now THAT is a grand battery! Beautifully done. Those big batteries must have been so difficult to control - at the regulation of 15 yards between gun, the battery width was 160yards...that is more than one and a half football fields...

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  4. A very impressive gun line, all beautifully done.

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  5. Very fine Russian Artillery, Mark. You definitely need a lol of guns for a Russian army; the amount of artillery they had was insane! It seems that they really may have had too much to be able to employ it all effectively, and it must have impacted their strategic mobility to a degree as well.

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  6. Lovely Russian artillery Mark. En masse, as they should be!
    Best wishes, James

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  7. Splendid mass of artillery!
    Best Iain

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