Still reading Sharpe books, noticing how many horses get killed.
Still reading Sharpe books, noticing how many horses get killed. The riflemen target them. Sharpe stabs a horse instead of it’s rider. Sharpe sends a sniper to start shooting corralled horses because he's besieged by dragoons…etc, etc.
I can’t find an article specifically about horse casualties in the Napoleonic wars, but the Civil War was fought in the same way, muskets in line and column, artillery, cavalry, etc. So here’s an article about Civil War horse casualties, one million horses killed!
http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=3521
I can’t find an article specifically about horse casualties in the Napoleonic wars, but the Civil War was fought in the same way, muskets in line and column, artillery, cavalry, etc. So here’s an article about Civil War horse casualties, one million horses killed!
http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=3521
youtube.com - Corb Lund - Horse Soldier! Horse Soldier! (video)
ReplyDeleteSniping horses must have been like bombing an airfield.
ReplyDeleteDamn that's terrible but makes a lot of sense. I have to remember to make all my monsters do this all the time.
ReplyDeleteYeah, as a DM do not feel bad about going for the PC's horse.
ReplyDeleteyoutube.com - Corb Lund - My Saddle Horse Has Died
ReplyDeleteJust about every horse and pack animal I've ever bought or hired in a D&D game has eventually been eaten by something. Blame Toliken. Bill the Pony died, man. Bill the Pony dies bad. Bill was lucky if it was wolves that got him. And shooting horses to make them throw their riders is kinda old school play too.
ReplyDeleteI recall reading something from a color sergeant who served in the Peninsular War. I can't recall the exact quote, but it was about how you deal with cavalry up close. You hit the horse in the mouth with your musket butt. Break its teeth and disturb the bit if you can. Horses freak out when smashed in the mouth, and an unseated cavalryman in among the infantry was a dead as fuck cavalryman.
Yep, exactly. In my book Sharpe slashes a horse across the mouth so that it spills its rider. The infantry see horses and think, shoot it, put a pack on it, or eat it.
ReplyDeleteBenjamin Baugh not disagreeing with the main thrust of your post, but didn't Bill the Pony explicitly and specifically make it back to Bree?
ReplyDeleteHumza K If canonical, I find that somewhat dubious. That sounds like a parent telling their kid that the torn open rabbit hutch is really smeared with "Jam! Little Hoppy's favorite strawberry jam! The Rabbit Fairies came with jam for Hoppy and took him to the Magic Lands of Happiness! Yay! oh lord, oh god, oh god "
ReplyDeleteI kinda think the Shire operates on a different kind of narrative logic than the rest of Middle Earth. There, it actually is jam. Anywhere else, not so much :P
ReplyDeleteBill Lives!
ReplyDeletetolkiengateway.net - Bill the Pony - Tolkien Gateway
I was under the impression that Bill got an intelligence bonus hanging out in Rivendell, which is why he was able to make it back safe.
ReplyDeleteWhy aren't there more ghost horses?
ReplyDeleteGordon Cranford this is both deep and #gameable!
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