Artllery

IT might be thought strange that in the orders-of-battle I posted yesterday, I am only allowing the French to have artillery in our refight of Waterloo.

True, in the battle Napoleon had about 250 guns while Wellington had around 150, but this is only a minor part of the explanation.

The main point is that the Allied guns were chiefly distributed along the army's front in the customary British manner, while Napoleon liked to gather most of his artillery into a grand battery.

At the corps level, Allied guns do not make an appearance, but the grand battery does.

The French superiority in artillery will be offset to an extent in our refight by a -1 modifier it will suffer because of the weather, as I will explain in a future post.