Frontline's new British artillery (1 Viewer)

[Canadian Samurai]

We just bought Frontline's new British 4/6 pounder cannon (Frontline's website says 4 pounder, but the box itself says 6!) and crew. They are really well done, and very colourful. The faces on the figures are as good as K&C and certainly better than John Jenkins, which I don't really like. A reference book we have shows a picture of this type of modified gun (with the ammo boxes) from Wolfe's army and says it was a 6 pounder. Yet the Frontline gun itself seems slightly smaller than that (though not small enough to be a 4 pounder). So I wonder if it is 4 or 6? We might email them about that. Regardless, Frontline is showing that it is still a real contender in this hobby.

 

[Harrytheheid]

We just bought Frontline's new British 4/6 pounder cannon (Frontline's website says 4 pounder, but the box itself says 6!) and crew. They are really well done, and very colourful. The faces on the figures are as good as K&C and certainly better than John Jenkins, which I don't really like. A reference book we have shows a picture of this type of modified gun (with the ammo boxes) from Wolfe's army and says it was a 6 pounder. Yet the Frontline gun itself seems slightly smaller than that (though not small enough to be a 4 pounder). So I wonder if it is 4 or 6? We might email them about that. Regardless, Frontline is showing that it is still a real contender in this hobby.

Maybe its a 5-pounder?.... Groan.....sorry for that one.
Cheers
H

 

[Canadian Samurai]

Harry, that's exactly what I said to my father too (I ordered the set for him for Christmas on his request), about it being a 5 pounder, but he's an accuracy stickler when it comes to artillery! So I posted this here to see if anyone could help him in his dilemma. The British only made guns in the 4, 6, 12 pounder range, no 5s.

 

[Fraxinus]

The french and russian howitzes are nice as well, and british rocket launcher is very well done. Would be nice to be able to get the "guns" without the crews though, as I concentrate on the French and Indian War.

 

[chiefs70]

Is it the RHA set? I believe during the Napoleonic era the RHA used the 6 pounders and I don't recall that they ever used 4 pounders at least during the late 18th early 19th century.

If it is the regular Royal Artillery set it would be a bit more difficult to be certain since they used 4 - 6 pounders - generally speaking - but I could look at the photos and see if I can figure it out (disclaimer: I am an amateur so it still wouldn't be definitive but I may be able to be relatively certain ).

Eric

 

[Fraxinus]

my recall the horse artillery is described as being a light 6-pounder and the field artillery set as 12-pounder

 

[fishead19690]

During the napoleonic wars the standard british field pieces were 6lb and 9lb. They didn,t use larger then 9lb pieces very often other then for sieges and then they would bring up larger pieces.
The 12lb gun was a standard piece for the french at the time but not the british.

British horse artillary would also use 9lb pieces also as well as howitzers.

 

[kilted vampire]

Captain Fishead you are the man! PS I have a lot of these Frontline Nappies. I hope they fit in with the Britains Napoleonics

 

[Canadian Samurai]

Is it the RHA set? I believe during the Napoleonic era the RHA used the 6 pounders and I don't recall that they ever used 4 pounders at least during the late 18th early 19th century.

If it is the regular Royal Artillery set it would be a bit more difficult to be certain since they used 4 - 6 pounders - generally speaking - but I could look at the photos and see if I can figure it out (disclaimer: I am an amateur so it still wouldn't be definitive but I may be able to be relatively certain ).

Eric

Sorry for the late reply: the set in question can be found here: http://www.frontline-figures.com/french-indian/bgg1.jpg

Would love to hear what you think. The set is from the 7 Years War (French and Indian War for you guys in the US).

 

[aujj65]

Sorry for the late reply: the set in question can be found here: http://www.frontline-figures.com/french-indian/bgg1.jpg

Would love to hear what you think. The set is from the 7 Years War (French and Indian War for you guys in the US).

From what I can remember from my wargaming days of the Seven years War I would go with the 6pdr, the smaller calibre cannons were usually Galloper guns with a twin shaft for a horse. This set is very similar to the Britains one for the FIW. I agree this one from Frontline looks good.

Jeff

 

[Fraxinus]

This is now labelled as a 6-pounder on the Frontline Board, some retailers still have the 4-pounder label. I an pretty sure Frontline's Board did not describe this as a 6-pounder 10-14 days ago. Maybe they read this thread?