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Re: War of Spanish Succession Mounted sets

It should be more:

+ French horse grenadiers
+ French guard

Re: War of Spanish Succession Mounted sets

French guard is 'Maison du Roi'; it's the same thing in the French army of the 18th century. That's one of the three cavalry sets that I think will be released. It is possible (although we have seen no masters) that Strelets might in the future offer us a set of Maison du Roi infantry as well.....

The horse grenadier master(s) that have been posted look to me like part of the Maison du Roi, so might be in the same set. The Maison du Roi in the WoSS had a company of Horse Grenadiers, who wore the same headgear as shown on the recent masters from Strelets.

But yes, the Horse Grenadiers might yet be released as a separate set. Fascinating.

Re: War of Spanish Succession Mounted sets

I could be wrong, but I think there look to be four sets of French household cavalry - Grade du Corps, Mousquetaires, Gendarmes d’Elite and Grenadiers a Cheval. There seem to be two sets of English cavalry, at the charge and in advance. I didn’t see anything resembling French line cavalry, but could be wrong of course. And I definitely didn’t see French dragoons, which would definitely be needed as well. Plus Imperial cuirassiers in their old-fashioned lobster pots, of course.

Re: War of Spanish Succession Mounted sets

You may be right Samogon.

In my view, it is important though to have at least one set each of French line cavalry (referred to generally as 'light cavalry', although it wasn't really such); and also French Dragoons. In terms of numbers of units and troopers, these would provide the majority of mounted units in any French army of the period.

French Maison du Roi cavalry is splendid, but with some of the units being quite small eg: the horse grenadiers (one company only), it seems a shame to have a set dedicated to just this one type of warrior.

However, Streets did make this error with the earlier Great Northern War sets, where neither of the two Swedish sets really represented the main regional Swedish cavalry regiments.

I'd vote for having sets that represent the main parts of the army produced first, with sets representing specialist units released later.

And yes, a set of Bavarian Cuirassiers at the Advance and mounted on large, trotting horses would be quite fantastic.

Re: War of Spanish Succession Mounted sets

I concur.