Din of Battle 2nd Edition Final Layout

Thought I would share some cover art for Din of Battle 2nd Edition. (This is the final layout)

Jeff Valent has upgraded my original design and I like what I see.

Publication should be around the corner. When I have exact dates I will post to TMP and the Piquet Yahoo Group.

Eric Burgess

Ukrainian Army - OOB - AUGUST 17, 1787

Thought I would share this one with everybody. I have tried to get the names correct. My Russian is pitiful.

Russian Musketeer regiments were usually 2 battalions.
Russian Grenadier and Jager regiments were usually 2 to 4 battalions.
Russian Cavalry was usually 6 to 10 squadrons per regiment.

Army comprised: Advanced Guard, 2 Divisions, and a Reserve.

Army Commander - Count Rumyantsov

Advance Guard - General Porutchika

      Cavalry Brigade - Major General of Cavalry Englehardt
             ·         Leyb-Kirasirs Karabinary? (this may be the Life Cuirassiers)

Infantry Brigade - Major General Melgunov

            ·         Uglit Musketeers
            ·         Arkhangelogorod Musketeers
            ·         Vologod Musketeers

1st Division – General Baron von Elmpt

    1^st Cavalry Brigade – Major General Lang
           ·         Pereyaslovka Karbinary
           ·         Lluben Karabinary

     2nd Cavalry Brigade – Major General Salignav
           ·         Nezhin Karabinary
           ·         Sofia Karabinary

    1^st Infantry Brigade – Major General Vyazmitinov
          ·         Siberian Grenadiers
          ·         Novgorod Musketeers

     2nd Infantry Brigade – Major General Ladyzhenskiy
         ·         Smolensk Musketeers
         ·         Ingermanland Musketeers

     3^rd Infantry Brigade – Major General Shamshev
          ·         St. Petersburg Grenadiers
          ·         Vitebsk Grenadiers

2nd Division - General Kamienski

      1^st Cavalry Brigade - Major General of Cavalry Saltikov
          ·         Ryazansk Karabinary
          ·         Seversiy Karabinary

      2^nd Cavalry Brigade - Major General of Cavalry Isvanidov
           ·         Kiev Karabinary
           ·         Starodubov Karabinary

      1^st Infantry Brigade - Major General Vadkovskiy
           ·         Moscow Grenadiers
           ·         Apsheron Grenadiers

     2^nd Infantry Brigade - Major General Prince Shakhovskoy
          ·         Rostov Musketeers
          ·         Tula Musketeers

Arny Reserve - General Prince Volkonskiy

Cavalry Brigade - Major General of Cavalry Prince Prozorovskiy

           ·         Chernigov Karabinary
           ·         Glukhov Karabinary

Infantry Brigade - Major General Melling

           ·         Malorossiy Grenadiers
           ·         Belorussian Jagers

Source: P. A. Rumyantsev. Documents. [T].3. M. 1959

Historicon 2006 Boxer Rebellion Game

Founds some pretty cool photos from a pick-up game I ran at Historicon about 5 years ago.

We were using Din of Battle (Piquet supplement) for the rules and had a lot of my Historicon "regulars" playing in the game. Since the game happened so long ago I can't remember all the details, but Jim Mauro won  "Best Player" award and received a Boxer Rebellion medal (replica of the US Army medal for China).

Jim Mauro (left), Brian Connolly (in green), and Jeff Valent (laughing) before the game starts

Boxers going insane around the Catholic Mission.

Relief force arriving by river

Good shot of the Chinese town and the "Black Citedal" protecting the harbor.

HMS Kangaroo firing into the fort

Italians and Russians move to attack the Chinese city

Waters are getting think with gunboats and troop transports

Mike Bolling (the thinker), Howard Barasch, Tony, Jim, Brian (standing), and Ian drinking a beeer.

More Black Flag Boxers join the fight

Italians breach the city walls!

French are attack by the Black Flag Boxers

Russians and Italians take fire from Chinese regulars.

USMC and German Seabatallion storm ashore and wipe out the Black Banner Boxers.

Definitely good times!
Cheers
Eric

List of Battles for the Russo-Turkish Wars 1787 - 1792

To show that I'm not crazy for selecting such a unique period of warfare I decided to compile a list of known battles (based on Russian and Austrian sources).

This will give you an idea of how large and encompassing this war was and there were many sieges during the war, which I can now fight using my Vauban's Wars siege rules.

This may not be a complete list, but will give everybody something to research if they so desire. Most dates are in the Russian Old Style. Alternate names used throughout.

Battle	Date	Details
Battle of Kinburn	Oct 1, 1787	17th May 1787: Battle of KINBURN(Ochakov) Suvorov & Prince of Nassau-Siegen beat the Turkish army and fleet under Osman Pasha & Hassan el Ghaisi, who had their landing party of 5500 men wiped out.
Battle of Batussan	March 21, 1788	In early 1788, General Koburg planned to take the fortress of Chotim; he advanced into the Moldavian region and on 21 March 1788, defeated the army of Ibrahim Nazir Pascha at Batussan. He then took the town of Jassy.
Assault of Šabac	April 25, 1788	Austrians storm the fortress of Šabac.  West of Belgrade
Battle of Rohatyn and Bojana-Losy	April 29, 1788	Austrians vs. Turks: Koburg again beats Ibrahim Nazir
Siege of Chotim	May 15 – Sept 16, 1788	Koburg opened the siege of Chotim on 15 May of that year. The fortress surrendered on 16 September 1788, together with 200 guns and ample stocks of ammunition and supplies.
Naval Battle of Ochakov	June 17, 1788	Russian navy defeats Ottoman Navy
Naval Battle of Fidonisi	July 14, 1788	The naval Battle of Fidonisi took place near Ochakov. It was a Russian victory over the Sultan's fleet.
Battle of Szupany	Aug 7, 1788	Austrians (General Papilla) was defeated by the Turks at Szupany (2.5 km north of Orsowa)
Battle of Mehadia	Aug 25, 1788	The Turks crossed the Danube;  defeated an Austrian army under Wartersleben at Mehadia (Meadia,Mendia)
Battle of Karánsebes	Sept 17, 1788	Austrians Rout their own army! Two days after the rout, the Ottoman army arrived to discovered 10,000 dead and wounded soldiers. The Austrians abandoned the Bergland and the Turks and their Romanian allies created havoc in 143 districts and 36,000 people were killed or carried off as slaves. (Near Slatina)
Siege of Novi	Oct 3, 1788	Koburg captures Novi Fortress from Turks
Battle of Hateg	Oct 9, 1788	Austrians (General Stader) repell Turkish attack on the town.
Battle of Gankur	Nov 1788	Russians (Kamienski) attacks Turkish (Ibrahim Pasha) camp. Russians left their entire heavy artillery train behind and   moved by columns along three roads with a distance of 12-15 versts one from each another. They surprised the Turks and after double assault knocked them out   of Gankura. Kamienski was rewarded with the Order of St. Vladimir of the first degree.
Siege of Ochakov	Nov – Dec 1788	Russians besieged the walled city of Ochakov and were commanded by Prince Potemkin and General Suvorov. All 20,000 of the Turkish garrison were killed, 15,000 Russians also died in the winter assault.
1st and 2nd Battle of Byrlad	April1 and April 6, 1789	On April 1, 1789 Korsakov met a 6000 strong Turkish force in Byrlad and without looking at the inequality of forces decisively attacked enemy and broke them. On April 6th the Turks, after obtaining significant reinforcements under the command of  Megmet Pasha, again went over to the offensive. By this time Derfelden had arrived with Russian reinforcements and they defeated the Turks for a second time.
Battle of Maksimen	April 16, 1789	Russians (Derfelden) defeats Turks (Yakub Pasha) in Maksimen [other names: Maximin, Maximovca, Maksimeny,Maksimovka] which is a town in Moldavia.
Battle of Galatz	April 20, 1789	Russians (Derfelden) defeats Turks (Ibrahim) [Other names: Galaţi]
Battle of Salcha River	Sept 7, 1789	Prince Repnin advanced with his division into South Bessarabia and attacked and routed a significant Turkish force on Salcha river on September 7th. (Salchi?)
Fall of Khadjibey	Sept 25, 1789	Russians vs. Ottomans Khadjibey (Gadzhibeya , Odessa) Taken by Russians.
Siege of Bender	1789	Suvorov takes Bender
Assault on Akkerman	1789	Russians take Akkerman. 90km from Khadjibey (Odessa).
Battle of Focsani	Aug 1, 1789	Russians (Suvorov) and Austrians (Friedrich Josias) vs. Ottomans (31st July 1789) Battle of FOCSANI in Hungary with Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg. 40,000 Russo-Austrians; destroyed the Turks of Yasuf Pasha 55,000 (Osman Pascha)
Battle of Rimnik Battle of Martinesti	Sept 22-23, 1789	Russians (Suvorov) and Austrians (Friedrich Josias) vs. Ottomans 22nd September 1789: Battle of RAMNIK in Eastern Romania. Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg & Suvorov Russo - Austrian army of 25,000 beat the 60,000 Turkish army of the Grand Vizier, totally wiping it out, ‘8,000 due to drowning. 23rd September 1789: Battle of MARTINESTI in Romania with Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg. Russo - Austrian army beat the Turks under Osman Pasha, who lost close on 20,000 to a Russo - Austrian army loss of 720 total.
Belgrade	August 10, 1789	Laudon (Loudon) Austrians capture Belgrade from the Turks.
Orsowa	April 16, 1790	Austrians (Koburg) capature Orsowa (Orşova)
Siege of Bender	April 22 - Aug 6, 1790	Russians use mines to breach the fortress walls.
Battle of Babadag	June 15, 1790	Russians (Kutuzov) vs. Ottomans (???) Russians forced the Danube and defeated 23000 men strong Turkish corps near Babadag.
Assault on Kalafat	June 26, 1790	Austrians storrm the fortified town of Kalafat. (Calafat)
Naval Battle of Kerch Strait	July 19, 1790	Kerch, Crimea - Minor Russian Victory
Naval Battle  of Tendra	Sept 8-9, 1790	The naval Battle of Tendra was a victory for Russia over the Ottoman Empire.
Battle of Takhtamyshe	Sept 28, 1790.	On 30 September 1790 he defeated the Turks and mountaineers on the heights of the Kuban, at the Tokhtamysh (Abazinka) and Podbakleya rivers, and put them to flight. He seized the enemy camp, taking all their artillery (30 guns), and capturing the seraskier. For this victory the empress awarded Herman the order of St. George 2nd class (21 January 1791) and 500 serfs in Polotsk Province.
Assault of the Fortress Kiliya (Kilii)	Oct 4 – 18, 1790	Russian Assault on Turkish fortress. Russians victorious
Siege of Belgrade	Oct. 9, 1790	Austrians take Belgrade. Laudon takes Belgrade after a three week campaign.
Bucharest	Nov. 9, 1790	Koburg takes Bucharest.
Siege of Ismail	March-Dec 1790	Suvorov was ordered to take the fortress by Prince Potemkin. He took the Fortress but it cost an estimated 150,000 lives in soldiers and predominantly civilians….
Assault of Anapa	June 22, 1791	Russians (Count Gudovich) vs. Ottomans (Shaykh-Mansour) Russians take the fortress on the 3rd attempt. Russian forces 15 battalions of infantry, 3000 jagers, 54 squadrons of cavalry, and 2 Cossack regiments, with 50 guns, stormed Anapa on the 22nd of June. The garrison, numbering 15,000 men, was annihilated. The Russian losses were indeed heavy—93 officers and 4000 men killed and wounded, about half the troops engaged. The trophies taken included 83 cannon, 12 mortars, and 130 banners; but a prize more valuable still, perhaps, was Shaykh Mansur, who was the life and soul of the defense, was one of the few prisoners taken.
Battle of Măcin	July 10, 1791	The Russians were led by Nicholas Repnin and the Turks were led by Yusuf Pasha. At first, the victory was in doubt, but then the Turkish army was vanquished by a charge of the Russian left, under Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov.
Naval Battle of Cape Kaliakra	Aug 10, 1791	Naval Battle: Russians vs. Turks. Russians win.

Enjoy!
Eric