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Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Jacobite Cavalry and Dragoons

 

I have a fair few Jacobite Cavalry. Some units were missing.  I thought I’d use up some of the figures left over from the great rebasing to provide the absent cavaliers.

 

Tyrconnell’s Horse second squadron.  Figures from Essex. As befits their proprietor’s key position in providing Jacobite logistics they wear redcoats. 

Sutherland’s Horse wearing French supplied uniform coats.  Uniformity could be patchy in the Jacobite Army.  Figures from Irregular.

The Jacobite Dragoons were solid troops.  They could be deployed on at full strength on foot where their firelocks provided advantage.  At other times they would happily charge mounted.

 

Here are Dongan’s, Clare’s and O’Neill’s Dragoons.  All mounted and on foot.

 

Dongan’s above and below.


Clare's next.

 

Above mounted and on foot below. 

 

 Both squadrons of O’Neill’s Dragoons. First squadron mounted.

On foot with horse holders.

Deployed as infantry.

Second squadron mounted 

 

Second squadron deployed as infantry.


I intend doing another squadron of Galmoy's Horse and then my Jacobites are complete.  Next, we will see some multi purpose League of Augsburg troops.  Horse, Dragoons and Foot.  Here is a pic' of the Horse to be going on with.

More soon.



 

10 comments:

  1. Wonderful. I like the horse holder bases.

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  2. Glad you do Richard. I held off doing them for sometime but they really add something to a game.

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  3. Lovely additions UB - I just played out a solo game that involved almost all these units (not Tyrconnels, but they were in a previous one a week or two ago!) Have a look here, if interested - unfortunately, I have no late 17th century figures, so everything was substituted with WSS units, but the games worked very well,,,,,http://1808534.blogspot.com/2023/04/beneath-lilly-banners-incidents-at_26.html

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  4. Thanks Keith, I'll be over shortly.

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  5. Great looking new troops. As always, the flags add a lot to the look of the units as well!

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  6. Thanks Gonsalvo. They really do Also I think the BLB basing suggestion really works for this period. As a bonus it's good for Battle Command too.

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