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Re: Dragoons! (was Re: Horse Artillery (was Re: Hussars!))
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lugnet.pirates
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Wed, 2 Oct 2002 15:56:38 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Kenneth Tam writes:
> >Shouldn't dragoons be armed with muskets rather than pistols,
> though? (Or is
> > that just a French thing?)
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> These chaps are carrying carbines, just on the other side of the saddle...
> unfortunately, I'm saving the 15 regular muskets I have left after arming my
> infantry for the promise of more Grenadiers or the like... thus these
> Dragoons of the fourth are armed with western-style carbines... *ahem*, that
> is to say, 'blackened 1796-pattern heavy dragoon carbines'.
I cut off the flaired end of Lego muskets to make carbines for my Dragoons.
I'll have to try the tire-hat-thingy.
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> *cough*
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> > Curse superficial research... that should be *light* cavalry of course.
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> Light... heavy... if you're on foot and out of square, the difference really
> isn't that noticable!
Lancers. :-)
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> Your superficial research wouldn't happen to be related to Richard Sharpe,
> would it? Just occured to me last night when I turned on 'Sharpe's Sword' to
> create the atmosphere for cavalry that I recognized the green of French
> Dragoons and Guardsman... figured prominently in the plot, that greenness...
Oh man, and I just started my superficial research by getting Sharpe's
Rifles. Up to page 110. All those thin Osprey books can get expensive. :-)
Bruce
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