Just one question in conjunction with the trenches. Can cavalry jump over those litle black ruin-thing that comes with the newest edition of epic 40K?
Eivind
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> Fra: peter cornwell <petecorn_at_...>
> Dato: 2002/05/06 Mon PM 04:02:05 CEST
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> Emne: Re: [NetEpic ML] [v5.0] Core rules: fortifications
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> "Millett, George" wrote:
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> > Depends on the width of the trench, of course - but we
> > are talking about trained professionals (Imperial) who
> > would jump trenches as part of their basic training.
> >
> > --->As far as I am aware the training is relatively benign and I would like
> > to see a horse that would willingly jump a deep ditch filled with nasty
> > people armed with various nasty pointed things just waiting to cut it to
> > pieces.
> >
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> At the battle of Beersheba in WW1, the Australian Light Horse charged trenches
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> full of Turks across open desert. They jumped the trenches (full of Turks) and
> went on to hit the artillery and take the city. (They had to take the city
> because they had run out of water). It was one of the last great cavalry
> charges and the charge itself was portrayed pretty accurately in the
> Australian film "The Light Horsemen" and we see them jumping right over the
> Turks heads! I know it was a rare event, but isn't this the sort of legendary
> charge that should happen sometimes in Epic? Maybe any infantry in the trench
> could get a free attack as the cavalry crossed - discouraging such charges but
> not making them impossible.
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> By the way, I think that as far as trenches being too wide to cross, I always
> thought they were pretty much by definition narrow. The whole idea was to make
> them a small target for artillery. I remember how historians bagged the
> Kubrick film "Paths of Glory" because the trenches were too wide. He made them
> wide so he could run his old style camera dolley along it, but even then they
> weren't all that wide. I've certainly seen photos of actual trenches that were
> narrow enough for horses to jump.
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> just my two cents worth.
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> Peter Cornwell
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