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| Prussian cavalry (foreground) clashes with Austrian cavalry at the Battle of Leuthen Picture taken August 2020 |
I have noticed recently that there is a proliferation of "all cavalry battles" spreading across the blogosphere and I think that I am right to take credit for creating this new trend. Yes, thank you very much my fellow bloggers. Whether it be in Yorkshire, Scotland or with Dogs or Gentlemen of a military persuasion, they are fighting cavalry only battles seemingly everywhere.
And to think, that I started this trend back in 2020 with my refight of the cavalry action at Leuthen, and then again last year in 2024 with my report on not one, but TWO all cavalry battles. One was with light cavalry and the other was with heavy cavalry. Both featured my Prussians against those brutes from Russia.
We can go back further in time to 2016 when we did one of our famous Big Battalion SYW games at the Battle of Weisenfels (see picture below). This was a disguised scenario based on Napoleon's Battle of Aspern-Essling and while it included one of the largest miniature cavalry battles that I have ever seen (outside of a couple that took place at the old Wargames Holiday Center), it was a combined arms battle of epic proportions.
Back in those days our group did everything in epic proportions, as shown below.
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| Battle of Weisenfels in 2016 |
Here are some links to some of my past all-cavalry battles. Click and enjoy:
Light cavalry battle Part 1 July 2024
Light cavalry battle, Part 2 August 2024
Heavy Cavalry Battle, Part 3 September 2024
Show down with some Cossacks October 2020
The link to the battle below was particularly large
Cavalry battle at Sagschutz December 2020
AWI Cavalry Skirmish July 2017
Battle of Wiesenfels May 2016 (one of our largest cavalry battles ever, but I lost)
As you can see, I have been doing all-cavalry battles for quite some time (even more than just those shown in the links above). I like to think that I have had a little bit of influence on the hobby, particularly in the 18th Century space. :)
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Nice to see some all cavalry battles and the SYW is a good setting for them, I actually recommended a fellow blogger to check out your blogs for cavalry only battles ideas, you are indeed an influencer!
ReplyDeleteIt makes for a different kind of game than what we are used to playing. The game also is faster than the usual set piece battle. It is a good change of pace every now and then.
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I am sure you created that interest . Well done
ReplyDeleteMost of what I said was in jest.😀
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