Black Powder Epic Battles: Waterloo - British Starter Set

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These miniatures have all been painted using, as reference, the uniform guides found at the enormously useful http://centjours.mont-saint-jean.com/ British Light infantry

A note on scale. The Epic Battles ACW set measured in at 13.5mm foot to eye-line. To my measurement, the Waterloo figures look to be a solid 14mm foot to eye.Fletcher, Ian (1999), Galloping at Everything: The British Cavalry in the Peninsula and at Waterloo 1808–15, Staplehurst, UK: Spellmount, ISBN 978-1-86227-016-9

More than 20years of warfare had eroded the numbers of suitable cavalry mounts available on the European continent; this resulted in the British heavy cavalry entering the 1815 campaign with the finest horses of any contemporary cavalry arm. British cavalry troopers also received excellent mounted swordsmanship training. They were, however, inferior to the French in manoeuvring in large formations, were cavalier in attitude, and, unlike the infantry, some units had scant experience of warfare. [103]The French army formed on the slopes of another ridge to the south. Napoleon could not see Wellington's positions, so he drew his forces up symmetrically about the Brussels road. On the right was I Corps under d'Erlon with 16,000 infantry and 1,500 cavalry, plus a cavalry reserve of 4,700. On the left was II Corps under Reille with 13,000 infantry, and 1,300 cavalry, and a cavalry reserve of 4,600. In the centre about the road south of the inn La Belle Alliance were a reserve including Lobau's VI Corps with 6,000 men, the 13,000 infantry of the Imperial Guard, and a cavalry reserve of 2,000. [64]

Booth, John (1815), The Battle of Waterloo: Containing the Accounts Published by Authority, British and Foreign, and Other Relevant Documents, with Circumstantial Details, Previous and After the Battle, from a Variety of Authentic and Original Sources (2nded.), London: printed for J. Booth and T. Ergeton; Military Library, Whitehall The heavy brigade of cavalry consisted of two Dutch Carabineer Regiments and one Belgian Carabineer Regiment, each regiment having three squadrons of approximately 150 men. This brigade acquitted itself well during the battle, though it is said that around the time Longford, Elizabeth (1971), Wellington: the Years of the Sword, London: Panther, ISBN 978-0-586-03548-1Warlord Games took a gamble on their Epic Battles Scale, and its first incarnation with the American Civil War (ACW). And that gamble paid off big. The napoleonic era seemed to be the next logical entry into the Epic Battles line. So I wasn’t surprised when I learned that Waterloo was the next focus for Warlord. Glover, G. (2004), Letters from the Battle of Waterloo: the unpublished correspondence by Anglo-allied officers from the Siborne papers, London: Greenhill, ISBN 978-1-85367-597-3

Battle of Waterloo – Opening moves". National Army Museum. Archived from the original on 4 April 2020 . Retrieved 17 April 2020.In a cavalry unit an "effective" was an unwounded trooper mounted on a sound horse. The military term "effective" describes a soldier, piece of equipment (e.g. a tank or aircraft) or military unit capable of fighting or carrying out its intended purpose.