As with all gamers, projects come and go. Models you were thinking of moving on get a new lease of life due to a comment in the Hobby or a movie on TV. This will hopefully be my record of my best endeavours not to start anything new until I have at least completed 75% of what I already have....as if that is ever going to happen ;)
With the impetus to get some SB units finished, I have returned to the Eastern Front. This is the area that my interest in WW1 started with rather than the Western Front.
My Russian forces are based on a "standard" Infantry Division. They were based around a Pendraken Starter set with some small additions to get me up and running for the SB playtesting.
Since the play test games I have added more units to provide:
Two Brigades of 2 Regiments Each of 4 Battalions of Infantry.
Regimental MG Companies
Divisional Cavalry Regiment
Two field regiments of 76.2mm Guns
One Heavy Regiment of 122mm Guns
GWSH and others seem to suggest the Russians were poorly provided with Artillery compared to the Imperial German Army. The Batteries were deemed to be inefficient by still retaing 8 gun strucutres rather than 6 pieces. Stone (The Eastern Front 1914 - 1917) makes a statement on Page 38 that "...their regular Divisions (German) had eighteen such weapons (field-mortars) to fifty-four field cannon, whereas the Russian army, in 1914, had only six per division (and forty-eight field-cannon). This give me a benchmark for the Germans of:
3 Batteries of 6 Howitzers 9 Batteries of 6 Field Guns
Which translates the Russians to: 1 Battery of 6 Howitzers increasing to two batteries following the reforms 6 Batteries of 8 Field Guns
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