The Russo-Turkish War of 1711 was a short-lived, obscure sideshow of the Great Northern War. The Kuban Campaign was a short-lived, even-more-obscure sideshow of the Russo-Turkish War of 1711. As such, it's ideal for those of us with penchant for lesser-known historical settings.
I've been wanting to make more use of my 6mm Great Northern War miniatures for some time so in the hope of inspiring myself, I pulled off the shelf Nick Dorrell's Peter the Great Humbled, The Russo-Ottoman War of 1711.
The problem is that I'm not presently motivated to relearn Shot, Steel and Stone or to learn Twilight of the Sun King, the two sets of rules in my library that are most obviously relevant. Decided therefore to see if I could use my 6mm chaps to fight an action from the period with The Pikeman's Lament.
I set up a scenario based on a Russian column advancing towards a small Tatar settlement. A single road (little more that a muddy track) crossed the table and there were scattered woods and areas of broken ground.
The Russians would have three contingents; a Dragoon company supported by a field gun, and two sotnyas of Cossacks.
The defending Tatars would have two companies of cavalry with a single unit of militia holding the village and counting as a company on its own.
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The field of battle seen from the Tatar side |
I used colour coded mini-dice to distinguish between the various times of unit on the table. In the picture below we see, from left to right, a white die indicating one of the more experienced groups of Tatar warriors (classed as Veteran Dragoons), a blue die showing that the militia (Raw Shot) were at full strength (they would switch to a yellow die when at half-strength) and a green die showing another, less-experienced Tatar unit (classed as Dragoons). The numbers shown on the dice would be reduced as casualties were taken. In addition, silver mini-dice indicated contingent commanders.
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Tulpar's contingent of Tatars prepares to move forward |
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Tatars (centre) surrounded by already-weakened Cossacks including the wavering Horobet |
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