"Archiac Cavalry" Topic
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Fireymonkeyboy  | 10 Jun 2012 1:45 p.m. PST |
Hi, Latest (and almost the end of the beginning) of my 6mm SYW project, the French cavalry regiment Archiac. link FMB |
| Fireymonkeyboy | 11 Jun 2012 5:50 p.m. PST |
Updated: I managed to get some better pictures this evening. The blog's been updated. |
| lapatrie88 | 27 Jun 2012 10:57 a.m. PST |
Can you say more about the wedge-shaped formation the cavalry are using? It is intriguing. I keep wanting to misspell the name of this regiment; I should make one for my army. By the way, very nice painting. You put my 15mm to shame. Enjoy your gaming! |
| Fireymonkeyboy | 29 Jun 2012 9:21 a.m. PST |
@ lapatrie88 – Thanks! In terms of the formation, do you mean historically, or just how I based them? In terms of the former, to the best of my knowledge, it was a common formation across several time periods for cavalry when charging – allows for an approximation of line, but still gives coherence and a visual link to the commander / colours. I'm not an expert by any means, however, so if there's anyone out there with more definitive knowledge, please speak up. In terms of the latter, I like how it looks more than the classic straight line you often see with 6mm cavalry – makes the base look more dynamic. I tend to fill in the wedge with heavier cavalry, and leave it as an open chevron with lighter units. You can see the difference if you compare my heavies (like Archiac) with one my dragoon units. FMb |
| Musketier | 02 Jul 2012 6:48 a.m. PST |
Maintaining a reasonably straight line while charging boot to boot was and is quite difficult it seems: From observing a troop of French Garde républicaine go through the sequence, the faster pace sort of naturally requires a tad more room for each individual horse. Either the line opens up ever so slightly, in which case the wings tend to draw ahead and you get a crescent formation (plausible for hussars), or they keep things tight towards the centre, in which case it's the command group's mounts that will draw ahead to ease the lateral pressure. (The fact that the commander's charger and his neighbours will feel the tension, and hear the command, a fraction earlier than the wingmen might have something to do with it as well.) |
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