Our interesting threads on unit strengths & figure ratios could now move to your armies' ratios of infantry & cavalry*.

This, of course, can be elastic but history gives us some guide.

I tend in Napoleonics to have 4 infantry battalions for every cavalry regiment. This tends to fit the roughly 20% of mounted troops you get when looking at the Campaigns of 12-15.

For the SYW, I try to get a 54-5 squadron cavalry unit for each 2 infantry battalions. Duffy,in 'The Army of Frederick the Great'writes that the frontages of a five squadron regiment and a two battalion infantry regiment were, at full establishment close to being the same.

You may like to contribute your Horse & Musket ratios here, and add in other periods.

donald

* for you WW2 fans, feel free to discuss mechanical horses such as tanks.