I might even make a new mat with fields built in, but for the moment, I wanted to have something modular. So, from everything it is obvious that I need a lot of fields. The details are very neat and will be a great guide for setting up a gaming table. This section shows the area around Parbasdorf, a village that was contested during the Battle of Wagram. The great birdseye map by Franz Xaver Schweickhardt, albeit drawn a bit later, offers a good glimpse at how the landscape looked at the time of the napoleonic wars (it’s accessible here) Fences were, however, used to enclose pastures and sometimes orchards.
In contrast to Northern America, fields were not enclosed by fences. Pastures were fewer, as livestock grazed on common land, where all the cattle of a village was driven by a herdsman in the morning and returned to their owners in the evening. As three-field crop rotation was practiced, some fields would always lay fallow. Most of the land was of course used for agricultural purposes, the by far largest parts making up farmland. Interestingly, it seems there were less hedgerows and less woods.
I did a quick research to find out how it differed from today’s Austrian landscape. It will surprise no one that the landscape of Austria in the 1800s looked very different from the North American landscape around 1860. My 15mm terrain collection is by now heavily geared towards the ACW.
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