Slitherine

(also posted this on the yahoo group)

Here's one set of models I'm glad I didn't have made before the book came out! These are
armoured or protected cavalry with a bow.

I assume the armament is based on the illustration in Allard's old slingshot article,
although Duncan Head's not found the source for that illustration and instead
recreates the Nepalese horsemen with spear and shield. No matter, they are "Bow" cav,
and that works for DBMM too, as Cv are Cv, so bow it is!

Question for FoG mavens as I move these lads up the production chart: should
they be armoured or unarmoured? Can't make both, sorry to say. Which would you
rather field as allies in a Tibetan army? Perhaps protected, because you can
have more of them to offset the smallness of the tibetan army?

Armoured, otherwise they would be a weak point that gets picked on. Though the abbasids would be more useful as, sort of filler, and average cavalry, especially undrilled are weak anyway, so I would be unlikely to use them.

philqw78 wrote:Armoured, otherwise they would be a weak point that gets picked on. Though the abbasids would be more useful as, sort of filler, and average cavalry, especially undrilled are weak anyway, so I would be unlikely to use them.

Cheers for that, perhaps it's not worth the investment making them. It's possible that once you've gone Tibet, it's best to go all the way, and use small numbers of heavily armoured cavalry.

khurasan_miniatures wrote:
Cheers for that, perhaps it's not worth the investment making them. It's possible that once you've gone Tibet, it's best to go all the way, and use small numbers of heavily armoured cavalry.

Yes! Exactly the way I went.

Spartacus wrote:

khurasan_miniatures wrote:
Cheers for that, perhaps it's not worth the investment making them. It's possible that once you've gone Tibet, it's best to go all the way, and use small numbers of heavily armoured cavalry.

Yes! Exactly the way I went.

Terry, I was impressed by how quickly you were making them. Have you has the chance to use them yet? Curious to know how they do in FoG.