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by quindia » Mon May 03, 2010 3:03 pm
Andrea, the best thing to do is find an order of battle from a conflict that inspires your interest in the specific period. Convert the number men in a battalion to table-top strength by dividing by 20.
For example, at Marengo (1800, slightly later than your period, but the conflict I had thought about building forces from) Watrin's Division is listed as follows:
Brigade Gency
6e Legere (3 battalions, 1,114)
Brigade Mahler
22e demi-brigade (3 battalions, 1,255)
40e demi-brigade (3 battalions, 1,716)
artillery (3 guns and 1 howitzer)
Let's take the 6e Legere. Dividing 1,114 by 20 results in 55.7. Since there are three battalions, that works out to roughly 18 models per battalion.
Brigade Gency
6e Legere (3 battalions, 18 models each)
Brigade Mahler
22e demi-brigade (3 battalions, 20 models each)
40e demi-brigade (3 battalions, 28 models each)
artillery (2 guns)
Now for game purposes, we have a decision to make. For aesthetic purposes, you may find it best to make all of the units divisible by the number of models you want per stand. I suggest either four or six and follow this convention throughout the army. You then adjust the models per unit to match your choice...
At six model per stand you would have...
Brigade Gency
6e Legere (3 battalions, 18 models each)
Brigade Mahler
22e demi-brigade (3 battalions, 18 models each)
40e demi-brigade (3 battalions, 30 models each)
artillery (2 guns)
At four models per stand you might opt for...
Brigade Gency
6e Legere (3 battalions, 20 models each)
Brigade Mahler
22e demi-brigade (3 battalions, 20 models each)
40e demi-brigade (3 battalions, 28 models each)
artillery (2 guns)
In all of these cases, you'll see I ignored the howitzer. The artillery conversion in R2E is 1 model per two guns. Since we had three guns and only one howitzer, I decided to simply field two 6lb cannons.
You also need not slavish follow a single army list, simply choosing to build demi-brigades of standard sizes - say, three battalions of 24 models (in which you could choose either four or six models per base).
If you'd like to post an order of battle you were thinking about, I'd be happy to walk through the conversion with you.
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quindia on Mon May 03, 2010 11:30 pm, edited 1 time in total.
