"detailed look at Warfare mounted dragoons 1685-1710" Topic
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| jocknroll | 04 Sep 2016 6:31 a.m. PST |
here is the first dragoon pack painted and in detail link Available from October 2016 |
| nickinsomerset | 04 Sep 2016 6:57 a.m. PST |
Super figures, must get around to doing mine! Tally Ho! |
| 45thdiv | 04 Sep 2016 7:22 a.m. PST |
The painting is nice, but the horses look too small. Sort of like riding ponies into battle. |
nnascati  | 04 Sep 2016 7:51 a.m. PST |
In that period, Dragoons would not have had the choice of good horse flesh. Remember, they simply rode to a location and dismounted. Dragoon horses were generally referred to as Nags. |
| Gunfreak | 04 Sep 2016 8:23 a.m. PST |
They where "ponies"(remember even during the napoleonic wars, most light cavalry rode horses between 145-150cm at the shoulders and anything below 148cm is "poney sized" |
| jocknroll | 04 Sep 2016 10:07 a.m. PST |
Reinforces the general principle that wargamers have preconditioned views of what reality is supposed to look like on the tabletop.
Dragoons were not cavalry, otherwise, they would have been called….. cavalry. The low quality horseflesh case is true but there is also the general issue of horse size which is rarely considered on modelling Horse and Musket mounted troops. When it is clearly that often cavalry units could not even mount every trooper (ie more men than horses) the idea that everyone in a regiment was riding enormous chargers is quite absurd.
The horses are scaled to fit the troop type.
They are that size because they are supposed to be that size. |
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