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World2dave wrote: ↑Sat Apr 22, 2023 8:43 am That's definitely going to happen, just got some scenery to do. Autumn maybe?

Looking forward to it!

Yey!

Let's agree a plan next weekend then

tim.w wrote: ↑Sat Apr 22, 2023 8:07 am Do you know if cavalry are a thing in it and how many to a unit?

It's worth remembering that you would not normally have any cavalry with the size of infantry force that you would see in a typical SP2 game, and certainly not the smaller sort of games you would have with a mate of an evening. What tends to work better is either an all-cavalry game (possibly with some mounted skirmishers), or one where the infantry are in the minority and have to keep out of the way and watch themselves. Get three or four (or more) cavalry "8s" on the table, and they will (a) last longer, and (b) you can use them more realistically.

Or, and one good thing about SP, is that French Dragoons, work properly by being competent fismounted as well as mounted.

Ask EB about how to use dragoons really effectively in SP.

That's why I won't ever play SP again.......[silly activation rules]

EB is pretty rules agnostic. He can have his cavalry slaughtered under any rule set.

I'm not sure the activation rules caused you to get off your horses, get back on, get back off and then get back on again. All in a small field with one gate that had no tactical relevance.

goat major wrote: ↑Sat Apr 22, 2023 10:36 pm I'm not sure the activation rules caused you to get off your horses, get back on, get back off and then get back on again.

From now on to be known as the "Essex Hokey-Cokey".