The Mess

[skankhunt42]

Why y'all trying to get me to play vidya games, yo? This is my video game here, if I got hooked on some video war game, I might never post again, and what would you all do without me, eh? Gonna get pretty boring around here, If ol' Smitty wanders off to play another type of video war.

If you ever started playing Civilization we'd never see you again.

[Okeefenokee]

Read a paper years ago on cavalry in the civil war and the lesson learned by European observers. Interesting stuff.

[Okeefenokee]

[ssu]

Actually, last Place for cavalry to be used was (is) in Africa. When you don't have roads, sometimes a horse might be handy, especially in the rainy season, when vehicles get stuck in mud.

Rhodesian Cavalry


South African Cavarly


Portuguese Dragoons during the war in Angola:


Chadian soldier mounting his camel, from the green grass it looks as the rainy season

[Montegriffo]

Splitting hairs here but,
cavalry or mounted infantry SSU?

[Smitty-48]

Technically, Mounted Rifles, or Carabiniers, is a type of Cavalry; that's called a Dragoon.

[Montegriffo]

Technically, Mounted Rifles, or Carabiniers, is a type of Cavalry; that's called a Dragoon.

So you don't technically need to fight from the saddle to be a type of cavalry?
Were mounted longbow archers cavalry in that case?

[Smitty-48]

Technically, Mounted Rifles, or Carabiniers, is a type of Cavalry; that's called a Dragoon.

So you don't technically need to fight from the saddle to be a type of cavalry?
Were mounted longbow archers cavalry in that case?

Indeed, cavalry need not fight from the saddle at all times, and indeed, horse archers are cavalry, the Mongols being the most infamous therein.

[Okeefenokee]

Technically, Mounted Rifles, or Carabiniers, is a type of Cavalry; that's called a Dragoon.

So you don't technically need to fight from the saddle to be a type of cavalry?
Were mounted longbow archers cavalry in that case?

Saddle, wheeled vehicle, tracked vehicle, skids, or on foot. It has more to do with the era you're talking about and what the soldier is going.

[Smitty-48]

M3 Bradley Cavalry Fighting Vehicle with 25mm chain gun and scout dismounts; Horse Archer Dragoons.