NATAL 1899-1900 (60AP-360AP)

BULGARIA 1877-78 (450AP-1,500AP)

RUSSIAN - Aggression: 4

1 x Inert HQ @ 10AP, 0-2 x Rifled Heavy Artillery @ 18AP, 0-4 x LH (Cossacks) @ 2AP, 0-3 x Rifled Horse Artillery (Brass) @ 24AP, 0-1 x Redoubt @ 5AP, 0-1 x Pontooneers @ 2AP, 0-1 x Supply Base @ 8AP, 0-2 x Inferior Ironclad @ 15AP, 0-3 x Steamer @ 8AP, 0-3 x I-Steamer @ 6AP, 0-2 x Flotilla (Spar Torpedo Boats 1877, Automotive 1878) @ 3AP, 0-1 x Minefield @ 20AP.

0-1 x Advance Guard, of: 1 x subordinate CP (Gourko) @ 15AP, 1 x Dragoons @ 4AP, 1 x Light Cavalry @ 5AP, 1 x Light Horse (Cossacks) @ 2AP, 2 x Rifles (Jager) @ 7AP, 3 x Bayonets (Bulgarians) @ 4AP, 1 x Rifled Horse Artillery (Brass) @ 24AP, 1 x Rifled Field Artillery (Brass) @ 12AP.

1-7 x Corps, each of: 1 x subordinate Inert CP @ 5AP, 8 x Stoic Foot @ 3AP, 3 x Rifled Field Artillery (Brass) @ 12AP, 3 x Rifled Heavy Artillery (Brass) @ 18AP, 1 x Dragoons @ 4AP, 1 x Light Cavalry @ 5AP, 1 x Rifled Horse Artillery (Brass) @ 24AP.

0-1 x Cossack Corps, of: 1 x subordinate Brilliant CP (Skobellev) @ 30AP, 4-8 x Light Horse @ 2AP, 2 x Rifled Horse Artillery (Brass) @ 24AP, 0-2 x Rifles (Jager) @ 7AP, 0-1 x Rifled Field Artillery (Brass) @ 12AP.

From July 1877 only:

0-1 x Guard Corps, of: 1 x subordinate Inert CP @ 5AP, 24 x Elite Stoic Foot @ 5AP, 2 x Elite Rifles (Guard Jager) @ 8AP, 2 x Elite Cuirassiers @ 8AP, 1 x Elite Light Cavalry @ 6AP, 2 x Elite Light Horse (Guard Cossacks) @ 3AP, 1 x Rifled Horse Artillery (Brass) @ 24AP, 4 x Rifled Field Artillery (Brass) @ 12AP, 4 x Rifled Heavy Artillery (Brass) @ 18AP.

0-1 x Grenadier Corps, of: 1 x subordinate Inferior CP @ 5AP, 8 x Elite Stoic Foot @ 5AP, 1 x Rifled Field Artillery (Brass) @ 12AP, 1 x Rifled Heavy Artillery (Brass) @ 18AP.

0-1 x Romanian Corps, of: 1 x Ally CP @ 15AP, 4-8 x Rifles @ 7AP, 8-11 x Inferior Rifles (Militia) @ 5AP, 1 x Light Cavalry @ 5AP, 2 x Inferior Light Cavalry @ 3AP, 2-3 x Rifled Field Artillery @ 12AP, 2-3 x Rifled Horse Artillery @ 24AP, 0-1 x Rifled Heavy Artillery @ 18AP.

TURKISH – Aggression: 1. Upstream.

1 x Inert HQ @ 10AP, 1-2 x subordinate Inert HQ @ 10AP, 0-1 x subordinate Brilliant HQ (Osman Pasha) @ 40AP, 18-72 x Rifles (Nizams) @ 7AP, 12-48 x BL (Redif) @ 6AP, 2-12 x Inferior Rifles (Mustafiz) @ 5AP, 1 x Inferior Light Cavalry @ 3AP, 1-2 x Elite Light Horse (Circassians) @ 3AP, 1 x Rifled Horse Artillery @ 24AP, 1 Rifled Field Artillery per 6 foot @ 12AP, 6 x Entrenchments @ 15AP, 0-3 x Redoubts @ 5AP, 0-1 x Pontooneers @ 2AP, 0-1 x Ironclad (centre-battery) @ 20AP, 0-2 x Inferior Ironclad (small monitors) @ 15AP, 0-3 x Steamer @ 8AP.

0-1 x British Naval Squadron (1878 only), of: 1 x Ironclad Flagship @ 30AP, 2-4 x Ironclad @ 20AP.

Notes: The Turks lost this war because of the incapacity of practically all senior commanders and their staffs. The Russian commanders were merely mediocre and un-enterprising. Turkish regular Nizam infantry were fine troops with good Martini rifles. Reserve Redif were usually good, but often had obsolete rifles. Mustafiz were vile untrained troops but were issued with the Martini. Rapid desertion kept their numbers down. Bashi-bazouks were totally devoid of fighting value, though players may like to have a group or two looting and burning villages! Turkish artillery was light but modern rifled breechloaders and outranged the Russian brass guns. Russian guards, grenadiers and jager had modern Berdan rifles, but most infantry had obsolete Krenks outranged by the Martini. Russian dragoons fought almost entirely dismounted. They out-ranged the Winchester-armed Turkish cavalry, who avoided them. Nearly all the naval fighting was on the Danube. A British naval squadron threatened to force the Dardanelles at the end of the war unless the Russians came to terms and the Russians made active preparations to resist it before the Czar got cold feet. The current runs strongly out of the Black Sea, so the Russians would have been upstream.