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Ride Into Battle With The Russians!

May 24 2015 @ 14:50 22 Comments

It's not all armoured cavalry in Bolt Action; there is even an opportunity for some actual horses with the Soviets. Check these out...

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aermord

Horses were used much more in WW2 than people often realize.

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comoran

whoa! 🙂

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ryking

They have some good mounted SS figures as well ;).

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ryking

I bet I the Germans could smell them as they approached… :S

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ryking

I assume the horse counts as an extra attack during a charge?

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doomrider

I’m sure it seemed like a good idea at the time :p

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fox40

Would be interesting to see how they play

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umgrimmy

For the motherland.

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stusidle

Cavalry are excellent in BA. Quick and brutal in assaults they also get to use the recce special rules which makes them very hard to shoot at. You also have got to love the Tachanka, basically an MMG firing backwards off of a horse drawn wagon… amazing.

The Russians used a lot of cavalry, particularly after the initial German invasion. The Germans captured a great deal of the Soviet’s vehicles in the early stages of the war so the Russians had little choice.

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macadams00

All that horse meat and no pasta sauce

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tachycardia

Those are cossacks aren’t they? Can you take them for Germans?

A lot of cossacks fought against the red army as collaborators.

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steve1797

They are Cossacks and will be painted up as one of the ‘families’ that fought for the soviets all the way through the war…

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hauptmanncanuck

The cavalry adds a great element to the game for sure.

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mc1gamer

I can’t imagine the crazy you need to have in order to mount a charge on horseback against tanks

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maledrakh

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