NEW RELEASE - AB Figures 18mm Artillery Train Austria and Prussia

Tony has continued filling out the artillery trains of the major nations of the Napoleonic Wars, this time turning his attention to Austria and Prussia and producing various sets in 18mm.

For the Prussians, we have an 1806 Caisson for the much celebrated Jena Prussian range and an 1815 Munition Wagon for those building the forces of Blücher at Waterloo, Wavre and Ligny.


To accompany their northern brethren, Austria has a four horse caisson set and a two horse caisson set. These are perfect for representing battalion wagons carrying the tents, supplies and food for the infantry, or munitions for brigade batteries.

Finally, Tony has also produced a cavalry battery pack horse team. As the 6 pounder cavalry guns of the Austrian army were drawn by limbers without the ability to provide the munition storage room of their Allied and French counterparts, teams of pack horses guided by a trained driver accompanied the batteries. These pack horses carried 20 rounds per horse, spread out over four packs.

With a compartment built into the "Wurst" seat on the cannon's trail that could store a further 10 rounds, the cavalry battery with its pack horses had enough ammunition for each cannon to rarely need a munitions wagon in combat. The ammunition carts that did accompany the battery could instead be held well back under cover of the terrain.

The pack horse was seen by contemporaries as an essential element of Austrian cavalry battery effectiveness in the field, well suited to the fast-moving demands of mounted artillery action in a way that heavier wagon-based supply trains were not.

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 - Nick