Dismountable Cavalry?
 

I'm working on a project that will utilize dismountable cavalry and I am wondering if anyone else has tried to simulate this.

What I will be doing is modifying pack horses to represent cavalry mounts to use them as part of the players OOB in a campaign. Obviously you would not be able to replace these units if eliminated BUT you could repair them during the campaign.

To give some background, this will be a hypothetical incursion into northern Mexico by horse mounted US Cavalry around January 1941.

Re: Dismountable Cavalry?
 

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

Re: Dismountable Cavalry?
 

There are already dismountable cavalry in some OOB's. The German "Unbritn Kav Zug" ( formation 409 ) is an example.

Don

Re: Dismountable Cavalry?
 

I see them now. :doh: In the US OOB, they are the "Cav Transport Tm".

Re: Dismountable Cavalry?
 

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)

Re: Dismountable Cavalry?
 

....and in a few weeks you'll have a US OOB with formations built to use them with the already existing dismounted troopers

Don

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Sounds good. ;)

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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.

Re: Dismountable Cavalry?
 

yeah, so both, the number of men on the transport must be low, 3 or 4 man against ~6 man on the ground maybe?

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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.

Re: Dismountable Cavalry?
 

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

Re: Dismountable Cavalry?
 

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.

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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