Finnish Artillery Group (Winter) (Early)

includes one Command Rifle team, one Observer team, one Staff team, four sets of Artillery crew, one Small three-hole base, one Small two-hole base & one Medium four-hole base.

Finnish artillery is well-trained, although equipped with a motley collection of older guns. The most common is the Russian 76mm field gun, the 76 K/02.

The Finns had 190 76 K/02 guns that were either captured or bought between 1918 and 1931. The Finns also used 75mm guns borrowed from Sweden for the Winter War, the 75 K/02. These had a similar performance to the 76 K/02.

While the field batteries were mostly made up of a few types of guns, the heavy artillery had a wide variety of guns and howitzers from all over Europe. The Finns used French 105 K/13 (105mm L mle 1913 S) guns and 152 H/17 (155mm C mle 1917 S) howitzers, British 114 H/18 (OQF 4.5”) howitzers, and Imperial Russian 122 H/09 howitzers.