Dragoons - cavalry by 1750

[davidharvey1]

trying to find out if anyone has dealt with this error in the game and thought Darth the most likely to have considered it.

The vanilla depiction of dragoons is wrong - by 1740 almost all dragoons had upgraded to general purpose heavy cavalry, few dragoons dismounted to fight even in the war of the Spanish succession circa 1702-14 ish. In the Prussian army by 1745 some dragoon regiments, such as the double strength crack Bayreuth Dragoons, had become highly proficient heavy cavalry - in the case of the Bayreuth Dragoons delivering the decisive cavalry charge at Hofreidesberg.

Light dragoons were introduced in the 1760s by the british, with their continental equivalents called cheveau leger or similar - they never fought as anything but light cavalry similar to Hussars.

I am not aware of any dragoons dismounting to fight after 1720.


Comments welcome

DH

[Montano5]

You may add your thoughts at the Darthmod historic facts repository as everybody looking for realistic events/units/tactics may take a look there

[pauli]

I am not aware of any dragoons dismounting to fight after 1720.

june 25th, 1876?

[Don in the North]

as this question is now in the facts depository, this thread will be closed, further discussion can be directed there.