John, I'm sorry to disapoint, but there were no Austrian howitzer's at Blenheim. Yeah I figured that - was gonna use a bit of artistic license! :wink: Here's the total breakdown of the artillery present. On the left wing supporting the assault on Blenheim village:- 10 x Sakers (5pdr guns) plus 4 x ...

Captain of Dragoons wrote:David Chandler's Blenheim Preparation has a detail breakdown of the Dutch and British Artillery Trains.

Great - I just bought that recently (bargain 2nd hand purchase) but haven't yet perused it - something for this weekend then!!

During the WSS in Marlborough's army there were two Trains of Artillery; One Dutch and one British. Edward - you don't know if any Prussian guns served in the Dutch "managed" train do you? I'm assuming there may have been Hanoverian and Hesse gunners amongst the British "managed" train? And do you ...

I have gone with 28mm Front Rank miniatures and I will be using the long barrelled EQ8 to represent the 5pdr Saker of which there were 10 of these supporting Lord Cutts assault on Blenheim village. There were also 4 x 5.5" Howitzers in support and for these I'm using EQ12 again with the longer barr...

Hi All, This is my first post here so please forgive me if I'm repeating a prior discussion (I did a quick search and couldn't find anything obvious that answered my query): I've finally started building some WSS armies (mostly using WF plastics) - I've always wanted to do something in the WSS to SY...