Focus: Black Powder Engineers
Our illustrious leader provides an insight on the Engineer and his role in Black powder…
Napoleonic battles were generally big affairs, where the topography could vary on a field many miles long. Slopes, forests, hills and marshes could hinder or delay deployment and conceal whole defences. Sometimes earthworks were constructed, bridges barricaded or farms turned into strong bastions by talented and well equipped specialist engineer.
These strongpoints could be a nightmare to assault, as at Borodino or Waterloo. For the attacker, his best chance to avoid a bloody re was to field a unit of his own engineers, skilled men who could wield axes, crowbars, hammers and use ladders or fascines to fill ditches and climb walls.
The new 1812 Russia campaign book gives you the extra rules to field these tough gentlemen and turf out ensconced defenders, or at least give you a fighting chance, assaulting a prepared position is a bloody affair!
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