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Austrian cavalry regiments fielded up to 8 or 9 squadrons in this period, hence why many of the cavalry bdes are big. The cavalry morale ratings are fairly arbitrary, and meant only to ensure that they beat the Prussian right wing cavalry fairly handily, but don't crush the infantry.
Theoretically there are some Austrian Hussars floating about between the infantry lines, but they don't seem to have done anything. Since this was an introductory game for some of the players we left them out. Including them (probably as 2 x 1-5 militia skirmishers since the Hungarians were pretty indisciplined this early) would give some silly command problems.
The infantry has one battalion too many in the first line and one too few in the second. The line comes out the right length though, which is why we didn't give some 3 point regiments. Both lines were in fact split into left and right divisions: these are too small for V&B, so we combined them and nominated one of the Generals as the commander for each line.
The infantry has been mucked about a bit to fit a V&B orbat. There were actually 7 Grenadier battalions and 1 battalion of IR15 present, so perhaps we've docked the Prussians a bit in not having 4 shock units. The remainder were combined into ordinary infantry units to make up the numbers, since they were deployed singly. E.g. the first line reads from right to left, and is missing 12/4 Grenadiers at the left (who really belong to Posadowsky's cavalry), but counts two points for IR25 who were only fielding one battalion. Similarly in the second line 8/36 Grenadiers are missing from between IR12 and IR7. We factored them out on the grounds that Grenadier battalions were smaller than Musketeer battalions. Alternatively give one of the second line regiments 3 strength points, but I dislike this approach.
IR40 is a Fusilier regiment. I've followed the standard predjudice and rated its morale lower than the Musketeers.
Yes the Prussian right wing cavalry is awful. It fled disgracefully on the day.
The Austrians come out a little short of their stated total (in Duffy)
of 10,000 infantry. 6/7 Dragoons possibly also deserve another strength
point, although the Austrian cavalry total tallies with Duffy. The
Prussian total point count comes out to quite a lot less than their
total (Duffy) of 21,500. The shortfall seems to be about 5 points,
mostly in the infantry. My guess is that this comes from the Prussian
battalions averaging something like 600 men each vice the 500 assumed
for a V&B strength point. I have a fairly intense dislike for 3 point
regiments (they are too durable), so we wrote this difference off partly
to balancing the above mentioned Austrian shortfall, and partly to
justify the 2-step morale advantage of the Prussians. As given they
already have an awful lot of awfully good infantry! The Bayreuth
Dragoons (D5) were one of the 10 sqn monsters, which we haven't
accounted for, so Posadowsky's Dragoon Bde could be made into a
3-pointer. If Duffy's map is to scale, this gives the Prussians too
much cavalry on the left. In this case I think I'd still say 50% of 5
is 2, so it doesn't matter much.
Seven Years War Association Journal, Vol VI no 1 (Sept 1992)
Historical deployments are shown by the thin red lines.
A-B is the Austrian first line, with both cavalry wings and the first line infantry. It is probably necessary to deploy the right wing cavalry brigades two up and one back in order to make them fit, since the 3 bdes should only consume 7" of frontage. C-D is the second line infantry only.
E is the Prussian left wing cavalry.
F-G is the Prussian first line infantry and right wing cavalry. the infantry stops at K. Since the Prussians had screwed up their deployment bits of the first line ended up in the space K-J. One V&B regiment is about right here, facing out at right angles to the main lines. The left-most grenadier unit should have only stream to its front.
The best way to represent the right wing Prussian cavalry is (from left
to right) Cuirassier Bde, Grenadier Rgt, Dragoon Bde. The Austrian left
wing cavalry shouldn't extend past the Dragoons by more than half a base
or so.
H-J is the Prussian second line. Theoretically this was 200 yards
behind the first, but given the intervening unit, making it 3" seems
right.
The Prussian artillery is in front of the infantry line at K. It can
start unlimbered, and should probably count as supported by the infantry
unit behind it.
