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Cross

December 6th, 2008 10:07 AM

Re: Dismountable Cavalry?

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Originally Posted by RichP (Post 657721)

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Originally Posted by Cross (Post 657181)

Check with Welk, he created a Napoleonic mod a year or so ago. Don't know if there were dismountables or not.

Here's a thread about it:

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showt...t=steel+empire

cheers,
Cross

Sorry to hi-jack the thread slightly, is this mod still 'live'? All of the d/l links in the quoted thread are dead, but it sounds like this gent did some very interesting work.

No, Welk is not working on it any more. You could contact Welk directly or ressurrect the Napoleon thread by posting on it.

Firestorm

June 23rd, 2009 07:49 AM

Re: Dismountable Cavalry?

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Originally Posted by Marek_Tucan (Post 657591)

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Originally Posted by iCaMpWiThAWP (Post 657510)

the bad thing is that the cavalry dont disappears after you unload, so you get 2 units(but usually 1 light armed cavalry unit with low ammo loads)

Actually that's perfectly logical - someone has to keep the horses ;) It's the same situation as with Motorcycle units.
(For example during and after the American Civil War, the cavalry usually deployed dismounted, forming a skirmish line, with 1 man out of 4 (or, in extreme cases, of 5) keeping horses.

I consider this to be something of a good thing.

At the Battle of Brice's Crossroads, Nathan Bedford Forest employed dismounted cavarly in a defensive line against Federal infantry, and changed out his holders to counterattack and pursue the enemy forces with fresh men and horses.

I do something similar in alot of my early campaigns, with the addition of tankettes and armoured cars.

DRG	June 23rd, 2009 10:53 AM

Re: Dismountable Cavalry?

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Originally Posted by Marek_Tucan (Post 657591)

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Originally Posted by iCaMpWiThAWP (Post 657510)

the bad thing is that the cavalry dont disappears after you unload, so you get 2 units(but usually 1 light armed cavalry unit with low ammo loads)

That is EXACTLY why it was done that way......here I was thinking evenyone knew you had to leave a man to deal with the horses when the troops dismounted and WHY would they disappear??? The whole point of dismountable cavalry was to allow troops to dismount AND REMOUNT.

Don

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