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Originally Posted by headquarters
the days of the glorious charge are gone I am afraid .
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These days are gone since the end of the US civil war. Nevertheless, the last time a horse army was used as the spearhead of an offensive was 1945. The Russian army which invaded manchuria was composed of horses and tank units used in a kind of blitzkrieg.
Tanks were used as tanks in a modern way while the horse carried infantry was used as their support infantry: horses being used in place of halftracks...
We already had several discussions on horses and several among us raised the problem of feeding for the horses. That is a point but horses units can be fed with what can be found on the field. From 1919-1945, Russians trained their cavalry unit to live on foraging. Each one of their cavalry division had a special company dedicated solely to foraging. However, a cavalry division usualy had half the manpower of an infantry division. Then, one problem was the lack of heavy weaponry (not really a major problem in T2K). Another problem was their vulnerability to air power: on one occasion an entire russian cavalry division was wiped out by the luftwaffe (not a problem in T2K again).