HORSE TEAMS

in TOAW

One small but tricky bit when it comes to designing scenarios and working on TOE:s is the question of horses. As we all know, all armies up until WW2 and many of them all through it, depended on horses for their transportation. The difficult part is, that you can often find very good TOE:s, which goes into the minutae of arms and vehicles, but gives no figures on the number of horses. And if you are making pre-1939 scensarios, there is bound to be alot of horses in almost all units.

As an aid, to help you see if you are either completely dead wrong, or at least in the right ball park, I have collated som info on horses in WW1 organizations, and even tried to "translate" them into TOAW terms, i.e. "Horse teams". And I have assumed that a horse team is 6 horses strong, but I may stand corrected.

Type of Unit	# of Horses	# of Wagons	Horse Teams
French Infantry Regiment 1914	199	63	33
German Infantry Regiment 1914	207	72	34
French Infantry Regiment 1918	315	155	52
US Infantry Regiment 1918	369	118	61
Austrian Infantry Regiment 1918	434	143	72
French Infantry Regiment 1920	387	209	64
German Infantry Regiment 1921	471	189	78
US Infantry Regiment 1921	525	190	87

Note: The US Army also used mules. They are included in the total.

This document will be updated.

Richard Kaduk