Life Guards (NTW unit)
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| Category: | Cavalry |
| Class: | Heavy Cavalry |
| Men: | 15 / 30 / 45 / 60 |
| Melee attack: | 14 |
| Charge bonus: | 20 |
| Defence: | 16 |
| Morale: | 12 |
| Unit limit: | 2 |
| Turns to train: | 4 |
| Recruitment cost: | 760 |
| Upkeep cost: | 330 |
These elite cavalrymen are all gentlemen, skilled in melee attacks and deadly on the charge.
Life Guards are an elite court regiment where appearance is as important as fighting ability. This doesn’t diminish their skills as soldiers: their powerful charge is capable of breaking the most stoic of enemy lines and their skill in a fight is almost unrivalled. However, their pride can lead some to be a little hot headed: they lack the discipline of other cavalry units and, like all cavalry, they may prove ineffective against infantry in square.
Historically, perhaps the oddest sounding of the various royal guard cavalry regiments were the curiously named “horse grenadier guards”. Common sense would seem to indicate that these men would only ever get to throw their grenades once, before their horses took off at speed towards all points of the compass! In British service, the Household Cavalry regiments, including the horse grenadiers did not, and do not, have sergeants: they have “corporals of horse”. The word “sergeant” has the same origins as “servant”, and no gentleman, even a private trooper, is ever a servant.
Abilities
- Impetuous
- Inspires nearby units
Technological abilities
- Wedge formation
- Diamond formation
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