Too Fat Lardies

gents, amongst some tinkering my colleague and I were doing I thought about troop grades and how I would like to have a genuine Guard status units. I am talking about real Old Guard,best Brit Foot Guards, maybe some select Russian Guard units. So rather than play around with the unit grading by crea...

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So it doesnt specifically state that a unit is unformed crossing a stream.

from the rules, pg 61: Rough Terrain: Includes woods, shallow rivers, deep streams and steep or rugged slopes. • Close Order Infantry move at half speed as soon as the unit moves into such terrain, including Fog of War cards. Close Order Infantry fire using the Inferior volley line when in Rough ter...

if crossing a decent stream and certainly a river, wouldnt the unit crossing be regarded as Unformed?

I would have thought that a cavalry charge would have been the perfect circumstances to do this

They are mainly 18mm ABs Benito

well better late than never. We played the extended version of this scenario on the weekend. The British left flank was under pressure from a mass of French infantry and skirmishers and had to refuse its flank. On the right flank, the sole French dragoon brigade was under pressure from the KGL Hussa...

Great pictures, many thanks!

I suspect that that rule is intended for the 'foot' dragoon regts in 1805/06, rather than your typical dismounted French dragoon squadron in the Peninsula etc. IMHO, these should fire as skirmishers only. I have dismounted skirmishing figures done for two of my AB French dragoon regts so am thinking...