21 July, 1770
by Kent Dowell
Russian
OB
Turkish/Tartar
OB
The Russians had between 17,000 and 35-40,000 troops and went up against a
mixed Turkish/Tartar force of some where around 120-150,000. The Russians formed
five divisional squares and marched across the field to engage and crush the
Turkish prepared positions while the Tartars ravaged the Russian
rear.
The Russians starting 6" in and the Turks starting 24" in (use a
two by two table set up... 5' by 12' - and some dead space on the ends as well)
given that we will have a five foot wide table this will give a the normal
seperation distances. The Turks will get about 36 inches of cover/prepared
positions for their two centre commands in a fixed position. The Turkish camp
command will not be able to move outside of the "threatened line of supply" box
until there are Russians within tactical movement distance (given that this will
be in the woods.... 4"). The Tartars will come on the east flank on Turn 3 or so
(still thinking of this). The Russians will not be able to start to move within
16" of the east flank until the Tartars
arrive.
Objectives
Threaten Russian Line of Supply -15
Threaten
Turkish Line of Supply (Major Camp) -35
Turkish Minor Camp 25
The
minor camp would be a point about 6" behind the prepared positions.
The
point values of the lists works out to around
Russian
574
Turkish and Tartar 621
Prepared Positions 36
total
657
To break the Turks and Tartars down a bit more....
Turkish Centre
242 plus 36 positions = 278
Turkish Cavalry 169
Turkish Camp 78
Tartars
132
Given the 21 July date for the battle this is going to be a 17 turn
game - so some effort is going to have to be made to move this thing
along!
For more information email
Tod at t_s.creasey@sympatico.ca
