"Frontier Light Horse How they fight, 15mm figures?" Topic

My first new unit for 15mm TSATF will be Frontier Light Horse (going from 10mm to 15mm for my long planned Hlobane project).

May radically alter TSATF and incorporate individual skirmish rules like "Stand To!" to get the right Hlobane feel. After all, it was a case of individuals fighting terrain and bushwacking Zulus, not so much big unit action.

Seems to me, from history, they fought mounted with carbines, pistols and some sabres (and regulars carried sabres), and dismounted with firearms.

Don't recall them actually dismounting and firing in lines, but that is not farfetched if they did, is it?).

I see Essex makes FLH figures (I like Essex) mounted and dismounted, and there are lots of QRF/Freikorps mounted and DSMTD figures that would work. Old Glory15 Native Horse mqaybe?

For Hlobane, I would need mounted, dismounted, wounded and dead figs, methinks?

Any other 15mm figs that would work? (Pics? Damn Essex and OG15s have no pics!)

I don't believe any of the Colonial Cav units carried sabers, especially the FLH. Minifigs carries the FLH. I think you may issues finding casualties. I'd try ACW Southern troops. I wish Blue Moon made them.

Thanks,

John

No sabers, they are mounted infantry. They carry rifles not carbines. They require horse holders when dismounted.

Some had sabers. At least at Hloblane.

They were trained in the same way as all the other local units: they were mounted infantry. They might have jogged after the zulus retreating, but they were not cavalry.

"They carry rifles not carbines." They carried carbines. Photographic evidence backs that up.

Jaz
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As far as mounted infantry, Larry Brom suggests that you have a couple of horses with no riders available to place with the infantry to show that they are mounted and then move them away to show they are dismounted. This lessens the expense of having both mounted and dismounted figures. However, that is not what I do as I have both mounted and dismounted figures for all my "Imperial" cavalry.

Jim

Col, I have a bunch of cheap, QRF lone horses, and some mounted on bases of three's, which you put next to a dsmtd or mounted guy and you have a horseholder :)

In 15mm, I'll pay the extra few dollars for mounted, dismounted and unmounted horse figs :)

Re read about Hloblane, and at least some had sabers (Weatherly and his son). I figure they armed themselves with what they could get.

I do think Blue Moon Manufacturing has Zulu War in the pipeline for their colonial range, but no telling when the first will appear.