Yes. And as my Brits are expected to fight those dastardly French anytime from 1814 in France to Waterloo or shortly afterwards, busbies are certainly an obvious option......I still might go for the 18th as those red shakos look braw.
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BaronVonWreckedoften
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Re: Napoleonic British cavalry
It was the "no trousers and underwear" rule that really threw the French.
Kein Plan überlebt den ersten Kontakt mit den Würfeln. (No plan survives the first contact with the dice.)
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Re: Napoleonic British cavalry
Do whatever looks pretty?
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Re: Napoleonic British cavalry
Were the KGL Hussars still wearing their peaked busbies at Waterloo?
Kein Plan überlebt den ersten Kontakt mit den Würfeln. (No plan survives the first contact with the dice.)
Baron Mannshed von Wreckedoften, First Sea Lord of the Bavarian Admiralty.
Baron Mannshed von Wreckedoften, First Sea Lord of the Bavarian Admiralty.
Re: Napoleonic British cavalry
And lances... Who doesn't like a lance?
Apart from Fuzzy-Wuzzies, obvs...
Apart from Fuzzy-Wuzzies, obvs...
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Re: Napoleonic British cavalry
Duke of Cumberland's Hussars.
Let them redeem themselves on the tabletop
Let them redeem themselves on the tabletop