The Artillerie of the Foot
“God is on the side with the best artillery!”
- Napoleon, summarising Voltaire.
The Grande Armee’s artillery has to date consisted of the Horse Artillery’s
single nine pounder. An effective weapon certainly, and easily deployed too, but
it does lack punch, and is certainly not going to cut it in a seige situation.
Port Brique citizens have seen the artillery that Port Block can muster, and, what with it being 1803 and all, it was decided to supplement the Grane Armee with a unit of Foot Artillery.
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The Artillerie of the Foot is slower and less glamorous than the Horse Artillerie, but their green and black guns, limbers and caisson are quite striking. And of course, their eighteen pounders can be most effective, should the situation demand.
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Construction notes.
The gun carriage design is a straight copy of the Wild West gun carriage, but
built in green and black rather than the brown and black of the original. I also
substituted non shooting cannons, simply because they look better.
The limbers are based on the limber in Fort Legoredo, but lengthened, equipped with a
five-wide seat, and with a chest addded. I’ve built some non military horse-drawn
carriages using the five wide seat technique. Here’s one.
The caisson was based on Allister McLaren’s Tradesman’s Ute trailer suitably lengthened and re-wheeled.
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