| John Tyson | 31 May 2021 12:02 p.m. PST |
If you would have been an enlisted soldier, not an officer or NCO, during the Napoleonic Wars, what type of fighting soldier would you prefer to have been? For me.
A British Horse Artillery gunner.
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advocate  | 31 May 2021 12:25 p.m. PST |
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| Wargamorium | 31 May 2021 12:27 p.m. PST |
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| Frederick | 31 May 2021 12:28 p.m. PST |
Cossack! Lots of scope for rambling, drinking and avoiding getting shot at |
| 79thPA | 31 May 2021 12:28 p.m. PST |
Bread oven guard somewhere in England. |
 deadhead | 31 May 2021 1:00 p.m. PST |
The RHA gunner is an interesting choice from John Tyson. God help you when you get back home with that high frequency hearing loss, which is inevitable. Nice outfit of course and, chances are, you get to ride a horse rather than walk. You are a bit more protected from musketry I guess, but you are surrounded with an awful lot of highly explosive stuff. I would be an Immortal. A Gendarme d'Elite of La Garde Imperiale. You still get the horse, a furry hat (or an even better Restoration helmet) and an much more fetching rig and you just get to bully people all day. |
GildasFacit  | 31 May 2021 1:12 p.m. PST |
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| HMS Exeter | 31 May 2021 1:17 p.m. PST |
If at all possible, a sailor. Too lazy to walk everywhere.
Not anxious to go to war on 1200 pounds of panic.
Too fond of hearing for arty.
Not gritty enough for a marine. |
| Brechtel198 | 31 May 2021 1:23 p.m. PST |
French Guard horse artillery. The place to be is a gun line-their is nothing else like it. Or a Grenadier a Cheval of the Imperial Guard or a Gendarme d'Elite. They were not only military police but also functioned and were employed as heavy cavalry. All three units were black horse outfits. |
| MajorB | 31 May 2021 2:02 p.m. PST |
The one who spends the entire war NOT getting shot at!! |
| Korvessa | 31 May 2021 2:15 p.m. PST |
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| DJCoaltrain | 31 May 2021 2:21 p.m. PST |
Exactly the kind I was.  |
 miniMo | 31 May 2021 3:05 p.m. PST |
Liechtenstein, Guard if they had any; they seemed to have dodged all the fighting! |
| 15th Hussar | 31 May 2021 3:14 p.m. PST |
Either an Officer in the 15th Hussars (British) or Any rank, Chasseur's a Cheval de la Garde Imperial (as long as I got to serve alongside Daumesnil). |
 Stosstruppen | 31 May 2021 3:22 p.m. PST |
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| Wargamer Blue | 31 May 2021 3:48 p.m. PST |
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| 14Bore | 31 May 2021 3:51 p.m. PST |
For all the dash of cavalrymen, I'm a infantryman at heart. |
| Irish Marine | 31 May 2021 4:37 p.m. PST |
Does it have to be a soldier? If not I'd be a Royal Marine at sea. |
| Old Glory | 31 May 2021 4:55 p.m. PST |
A United State Marine !! Russ Dunaway |
| Irish Marine | 31 May 2021 5:39 p.m. PST |
Russ, I was thinking Europe. I'm ashamed I didn't say US Marine. |
| Legionarius | 31 May 2021 6:01 p.m. PST |
Is this a trick question? A legionarius, of course!
Best Army in the history of the world bar none.
Legionarius |
| 42flanker | 31 May 2021 8:29 p.m. PST |
'Greenjacket' rifleman- but always as far from Black Bob as possible. |
 Yellow Admiral | 31 May 2021 8:30 p.m. PST |
A hussar. Best uniforms ever invented. As a motorcyclist I'm partial to fast, snazzy cavalry with a lot of independence. - Ix |
| nsolomon99 | 31 May 2021 9:29 p.m. PST |
I think a line trooper in either the 5th or 7th French Hussars. No responsibilities, rove around Europe in the Infernal Brigade with a flashy uniform the chicks really dig and led by General LaSalle, all the major campaigns, heaps of battle honours on your regimental standard, never have to go to Spain, whats not to like? Of course the retreat from Moscow was a bummer …! |
| Tango01 | 31 May 2021 10:24 p.m. PST |
The best position or job in any war has always been … a chef…. (smile)
Armand
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| Huscarle | 01 Jun 2021 5:24 a.m. PST |
One of the Yeomanry (British), or perhaps a clerk in Whitehall or something similar. A reasonably cushy life  |
| Lilian | 01 Jun 2021 5:46 a.m. PST |
Liechtenstein, Guard if they had any; they seemed to have dodged all the fighting! better than a static guard, Liechtenstein has to recruit 40 men to serve in the 2nd Nassau Regiment of the Confederation of Rhine
then to save its Independance in 1813-1815 recruited twice the number, 80 men, to join the Coalition against Napoleonic France |
| Escapee | 01 Jun 2021 6:46 a.m. PST |
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| John the OFM | 01 Jun 2021 9:48 a.m. PST |
A Fencible, guarding Bristol from French invasion.
Or New York militia, arguing that I'm not allowed to invade Canada, but that's only if I'm actually being required to take the field. Better yet, Pennsylvania militia. Maybe I can even balk at entering New York. |
| forrester | 01 Jun 2021 3:07 p.m. PST |
I used to own a Waterloo Medal for an armourer sergeant of the 11th Light Dragoons.
Near enough to participate in the drama of the campaign, but a sufficiently valuable specialist to keep in the rear. |
| Erzherzog Johann | 01 Jun 2021 3:53 p.m. PST |
Insurrectio hussar or a Bashkir. No expectations and a fast getaway :-) Cheers,
John |
| Trajanus | 03 Jun 2021 1:41 a.m. PST |
Supply Officer of some kind. Based in Lisbon. Nice weather, nice ladies and no Frenchmen trying to kill you. What's not to like? |
| 42flanker | 03 Jun 2021 4:14 a.m. PST |
Well, it seems the streets of Lisbon were liberally smeared with human excrement. |
| Brechtel198 | 03 Jun 2021 7:36 a.m. PST |
Not to mention the 40,000 Portuguese who died from starvation and disease after being forcibly removed from their homes and towns… |
| 42flanker | 03 Jun 2021 10:31 a.m. PST |
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| Andy ONeill | 03 Jun 2021 11:43 a.m. PST |
Old. But not too old. Telling tall tales of derring do to the ladies. |
| 1968billsfan | 10 Jun 2021 6:34 a.m. PST |
Hussar. My great grandfather was reportedly a dragoon deserter from the Czar's army. |
gets started with Flintloque.
