Author Topic: Russian Conquest of Central Asia 1860's-1880's (Read 47282 times)

marco55 · « **Reply #270 on:** August 05, 2023, 02:13:09 PM »

Hopefully more figures will come soon.
Mark

Desert Colonial · « **Reply #271 on:** August 23, 2023, 07:43:08 AM »

I have just returned to miniature wargaming after a 15 odd year break. I've been going through what I have, rebasing and patching chips etc.

I've decided to the Battle of Irdjar using Black Powder as the rules (rules still in the post) as my end goal. So on to my questions.

Per Foundry's Central Asian book the Orbat was:

Russia:
Under Romanovski
14 company Infantry
5 sotnias Cossacks
20 Guns
8 Rocket stands

Under Kraefski
1000 men (4-5 company's?)

Bokhara:
40,000 (incl 5000 sarbezes)
21 Guns

In Black Powder terms I was thinking of doing a base = company, which would make 4-5 bases unit or about 50:1 figure ratio. Russians would be about 20 bases inf and 6 based Cav. Bokhara would be 25 based Inf and loads of Cav. I might cut Bokharan Cav down by half at least since most would not have participated directly in the battle. I will have to read the rules and get a bit of a feel for them.

On this kind of ratio how many guns would make a base? Does about 8 per base feel right?
What type of guns did the Russians use?
There is mention of rifles, were the Russians 4 line company plus 1 rifle company?
The Bokharans we're dug in. What did these field defenses look like? Sangars, trenches?
Anyone know of a good account of the battle in English?

Desert Colonial · « **Reply #272 on:** August 26, 2023, 03:16:23 AM »

First 9 bases re-based and chips patched up.
Mostly Askari with Old Glory Mongols.
The horse tail standard is from Eureka's Turk range.
The axe at the front was my first (and only) kit bash. He had a broken sword so I replaced his arm with an arm an ECW plastic spruce.