Cavalry in T2K

[Cdnwolf]

So in the end .... did anyone come up with combat rules involving the use of calvary.

I have a a Polish Border Guard unit mounted on horses beating the bushes looking for any survivors from the 256'th Brigade south of Lask and the characters will definately run into them sometime.

[Raellus]

Rise, dead thread! Rise!

I ran across this article on a cool website called The War Zone. The concept of horse cavalry/dragoons/mule-mobile infantry is alive and well in the year 2017.

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone...orseback-again

[James Langham2]

Originally Posted by Raellus

Rise, dead thread! Rise!

I ran across this article on a cool website called The War Zone. The concept of horse cavalry/dragoons/mule-mobile infantry is alive and well in the year 2017.

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone...orseback-again

A couple of really interesting bits in here - more bits to add to my article...

[Olefin]

FYI did you see the Kenyan Cav unit that was in the East Africa Sourcebook? They are fighting as dragoons and really arent made to fight from horseback.

[James Langham]

Originally Posted by Olefin

FYI did you see the Kenyan Cav unit that was in the East Africa Sourcebook? They are fighting as dragoons and really arent made to fight from horseback.

Already there in part but I need to update it to match the canon article slightly.

[Targan]

James, have you started using your original profile again or has it been hacked?

[James Langham]

Originally Posted by Targan

James, have you started using your original profile again or has it been hacked?

Oddly I used a new machine and somehow it has pulled the original password through Google - confused.com!

[unkated]

Originally Posted by Cdnwolf

So in the end .... did anyone come up with combat rules involving the use of calvary.

I have a a Polish Border Guard unit mounted on horses beating the bushes looking for any survivors from the 256'th Brigade south of Lask and the characters will definately run into them sometime.

I'll bite...

What kind of rules are you looking for?

• Movement of individual is in the movement rules.
• Cavalry trained horses won't shy from gunfire; untrained horses will.
• There is a quadruped hit location chart.
• Man on a horse is a slightly larger target to spot than a man on foot; he can also see slightly further.
• I would make anyone being charged at less than 30 m range make a CUF/initiative roll vs this large beast coming at you (mods for cover, perhaps), or break and run.

The BGB would probably have squads pushing along a front on search, with a larger troop ready to reinforce on contact. And their tactic would be to move to a short distance away, dismount, and proceed on foot into combat.

Uncle Ted

[Olefin]

Also the question is would the cavalry be actual cavalry that fought on horseback or instead would they be more infantry that used horses to get to the fighting and then dismounted and fought on foot

In other words are the cavalry units that are the game actual trained cavalry that are trained to fight on horses that have been hardened to combat conditions - which would most likely be quite rare given that just about every unit in the game started out as mechanized infantry that converted to horses - or would they instead be dragoons like the unit in Kenya is - i.e. they use the horses to get to where they are going, then dismount and fight on foot while several members are detailed to keep the horses from bolting during the fighting?

[Apache6]

Even one man with a semi automatic rifle would destroy a lot of cavalry if they tried to make mounted assaults.

To survive units would have to fight dismounted. The horses would provide mobility advantages but would most likely be a disadvantage during the actual fight. During the American Civil War the SOP was for one out of every 4 men to be detailed to handle the horses, while the unit fought on foot.

[Olefin]

Originally Posted by Apache6

Even one man with a semi automatic rifle would destroy a lot of cavalry if they tried to make mounted assaults.

To survive units would have to fight dismounted. The horses would provide mobility advantages but would most likely be a disadvantage during the actual fight. During the American Civil War the SOP was for one out of every 4 men to be detailed to handle the horses, while the unit fought on foot.

Comes down to how they make the assault - the Italians successfully conducted a cavalry charge against Soviet troops during WWII that had machine guns and mortars - but they were highly trained cavalry

Unless you are looking at trained cavalry, with horses that have been trained for battlefields, I completely agree with you - Dragoons is definitely the way to go for fighting

[The Dark]

Originally Posted by Olefin

Comes down to how they make the assault - the Italians successfully conducted a cavalry charge against Soviet troops during WWII that had machine guns and mortars - but they were highly trained cavalry

Unless you are looking at trained cavalry, with horses that have been trained for battlefields, I completely agree with you - Dragoons is definitely the way to go for fighting

The Americans conducted a cavalry charge against tanks at Morong and drove them off with minor casualties (11 percent wounded, no dead). The unit served through the war as dismounted guerillas after eating their horses.

The Italian charge was highly outnumbered, too - it was six hundred cavalry against two thousand infantry. Cavalry casualties totaled 32. Two Soviet armored vehicles were destroyed.