Customized units for the French Armies

[Athos1660]

Here are a few modded units that can be added to your French Armies in game.
Enjoy!


1) Enfants perdus
Troop for hazardous missions.
Present in the FoGR tabletop game.

Modding : plain 'Detached musketeers' (with Experience=100 and Elan=100) with a new name.
Armies : French 1611-1622, French 1623-1634
Cost : Vanilla (31)
Availability : Vanilla (0-3)




2) Enfants perdus led by King's Musketeers
Elite troop for hazardous missions.
Present in the FoGR tabletop game.

Modding : Detached musketeers with Experience=200 and Elan=200.
Armies : French 1623-1634
Cost : 40 ?
Availability : ?




3) 'Croates'
In English : 'Croats' ; in modern French 'Croates' ; in 17th century French : Croattes'
Mercenary horsemen from the Balkans, not specifically croat.
Fought during the battle of Rocroi on the French side.
Present in the FoGR tabletop game.

Modding : late Hussars without Pistol melee capability
Armies : French 1635-1648
Cost : less expensive than hussars (30-35 ?). NB : Hussars cost 40.
Availability : like the hussars (0-2) ?





4) Régiment des Cuirassiers du Roi
Elite troop. Historical.
A personal addition. Might unbalance the game a bit...

Modding : 'Veteran Armoured Horse (Shock)' with a new name.
Armies : Le Roi Soleil, French 1670-1690, 1691-1698
Cost : expensive (72)
Availability : 1




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Source : N. Gaukroger, R. B. Scott and al., Wars of Religion Western Europe, 1610-1660, FoGR

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Other units from several nations may come later (such as the Grenadiers and the mounted Grenadiers)

Feel free to comment, especially Stats, cost, availability...

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Thx Cronos09 for your kind help in modding

[Athos1660]

^ "Enfants perdus led by King's Musketeers" are fun to play with !

[Athos1660]

4) Régiment des Cuirassiers du Roi
Elite troop. Historical.
A personal addition. Might unbalance the game a bit...

Modding : 'Veteran Armoured Horse (Shock)' with a new name.
Armies : Le Roi Soleil, French 1670-1690, 1691-1698
Cost : -
Availability : 1

Some sources about the Régiment des Cuirassiers du Roi during 1670-1700 :

1) According to Historian Louis Susane in Histoire de la cavalerie française (tome 2, p. 65...), The Cuirassiers du Roi participated in most battles of the period, such as :
- Crossing the Rhine in 1672 (start of the Franco-Dutch War)
- Siege of Maastricht in 1673
- Battle of Seneffe in 1674
- Siege de Dinant in 1675
- Battle of Cassel in 1677
- battle of Saint-Denis in 1678
- Siege de Courtrai and Dixmude in 1683
- battle of Neerwinden in 1693
- War of the Spanish Succession
- Etc.

(French Cuirassiers during 1670-1700 are also mentionned by other Historians)

2) In his account about the crossing of the Rhine in 1672, called Relation du passage du Rhin (p. 105...), Armand de Gramont, Count of Guiche mentions several times the Régiment des Cuirassiers du Roi and his Mestre de camp-lieutenant (leader), Charles Amédée de Broglie, Comte de Revel.

3) In a drawing showing the order of battle of Cassel (1677) made not long after the battle, the Régiment des Cuirassiers du Roi appears :



4) Alain Manesson Mallet, in his treatise of 1684 on the French Army named Travaux de Mars ou les travaux de la guerre (tome 3, p. 102), mentions the Cuirassiers in the chapter on the French Cavalry of the time :



translation : "The Cuirassiers are horsemen armed with Cuirasses that are bulletproof (pistols).They are a regiment led by a Mestre de Camp, a Major, etc."

5)...
(could be continued)

[Lysimachos]

Thank's Athos, a really nice addition for the French army and also an interesting discovery of old literary sources!

[Athos1660]

Thank you, Lysimachos, for the kind words.

There are indeed many references about this regiment. A few others :

1) Map of the siege of Philisbourg by the army of Louis XIV in 1688 published the same year :



2) Louis de Gaya, Lord of Tréville, Capitain in the regiment of Champagne under Louis XIV’s reign, describes, in his book L’art de la guerre et la manière dont on la fait aujourd’hui en France (1689, p. 198), the Régiment de Cuirassiers du Roi as one of the main French cavalry regiments of the era.

3) Modern historians mention this regiment in their writings, such as :
- L. Susane. According to him, this regiment dates back to 1638 and has continued without a break throughout the period (till the Revolution and even after under another name, according to the idea of continuity of the traditions of the French regiments).
- Fr. Chauviré (in books and papers),
- R. Chartrand, on page 208 of his Armies and Wars of the Sun King 1643-1715, Vol. 3 : The Cavalry of Louis XIV.

[Athos1660]

Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all !!!