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Jan 18 07 12:00 AM

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Sorry to pipe up again, but as I rooted through the painting box there was an old pack of BH Austrian Foot Artillery. It had three 3lb guns and crew.

My understanding is that the attached foot artillery batteries usually had 6 guns plus two howitzers, while the "positional" batteries had just the six guns. And that the guns were usually 6 or 8lbers.

Had the Austrians decided by 1809 that the 3lber was ineffective and replaced the 3lber batteries with 6 or 8lbers? If the 3lbers were still around should I also paint a howitzer (there are a few in the box) to make up a brigade battery?

If the 3lbers were obsolescent by 1809 who makes good artillery pieces to replace the guns I have? Or should I put the 3lbers on Ebay and pick an OO or AB battery from Ian Marsh?
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Jan 18 07 7:55 AM

Austrians used several 3 pdr batteries on Leipzig in 1813 inn their light divisions so go ahead and paint them. Since they were of 6 cannons I presume that they didn't contain howitzers.
Hope that this helps.
Cheers.
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Jan 18 07 8:39 AM

worth picking up an OO pack from Ian anyway. From memory the OO Austrian artillery comes with alternative barrels so howitzers can be created for a particular scenario in minutes :-)

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Cheers,
Mark

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Jan 18 07 4:12 PM

Austrians still had 3pdr batteries in 1809, many of the Grenz batteries where 3pdrs. They would be the brigade battery and that would consist of 8 guns. The support battery, usually 6pdr, also included 2 howitzers,
hope this helps
stuart

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Jan 19 07 8:05 AM

Jimbo, you may be right. Since I leave the pieces loose I can't remember where the 3pdrs and 6 pdrs originally came from. My 6pdrs may well be OO.

Cheers,
Mark

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Jan 19 07 7:10 PM

Milhaud,
Thanks for posting the pic of the OO gun and crew. They are on my "want" list already - I have the German Fusiliers and Officer packs and think the command pack is very good.

One thing (and this is certainly not a criticism) but the gun looks very yellow while my reading indicates the guns and limbers etc were a yellow mustard colour. Am I wrong or was this something that varied a fair bit in practice?

Also is there a good paint colour for the gun crew's coats?

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Jan 20 07 1:44 PM

the yellow's not as bright in reality as in the photo - I notice the stone on the house behind also looks pretty lurid.

For the coats I used Vallejo 140 Flat brown highlighted with 138 saddle brown

Cheers,
Mark

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