Biggest Austrian battalion fire line vs typical French battalion fire line

 One of the issues I have with most wargame depictions of Wagram is that they understate the size of Austrian battalions particularly how much larger they typically were than the mostly under strength French battalions.

While many Austrian units were eroded down, their larger starting size left their average battalion size much larger than that of the French Army.  I estimate that French line & light battalions averaged only around 565 men vs about 790 for the Austrian line battalions.

These numbers are slightly different in My OOB because I consolidate some under strength battalions in both armies; French rises to 612 men vs Austrian 830 men.

A full strength Austrian bat in fire line is more than half again as long as a full strength French fire line.

Since there were no full strength French battalions at Wargram, and many that were close and smaller than average, I thought I’d show a typical French fire line vs a full sized Austrian one.  Even this understates the Austrian size advantage, because I can’t have the Austrian bats too unwieldy, but at least the ratios in men still hold to the historic.

So here’s some pics (with Dr. Strange as the background);