Future Cavalry

[Heroscape Elffy]

Yeah, but Pegasuses* are manly. Unicorns are not.


*Pegasi?

[ParaGoomba Slayer]

Originally Posted by Heroscape Elffy

Yeah, but Pegasuses* are manly. Unicorns are not.


*Pegasi?

A regular horse does not have a deadly spike on it's forehead, does it? Therefore unicorn > regular horse on the manliness scale.

[nyys]

Here's your bug cavalry.

[DeadEye]

Originally Posted by nyys

Here's your bug cavalry.

I think the Airborne Elite with their Grenades would do rather well against these fellows....

DeadEye

[Granite-M]

Originally Posted by Heroscape Elffy

Yeah, but Pegasuses* are manly. Unicorns are not.


*Pegasi?

If you really want to get down to it, it'd just be "winged horses," because Pegasus was the name of a specific horse with wings, who went on adventures with Bellerophon against the Chimera and the Amazons. Calling them all by the same name would be like calling martial arts masters "Bruce Lees," or U.S. presidents "George Washingtons." The plural, though, would be "Pegasi."

Or you could go with an adjectival: pegasoid, or pegasonian, or pegasid, or so on or so forth.

[Confred]

offtopic: In Heroes of Might and Magic III, Unicorns weren't girly and were tough tanks.

[GreenLanturn]

Originally Posted by nyys

Here's your bug cavalry.

I cannot remember the name of that movie! I saw it so long ago... Any help with the title?

[Nooblar]

Originally Posted by GreenLanturn

I cannot remember the name of that movie! I saw it so long ago... Any help with the title?

Would you like to know more?

[ParaGoomba Slayer]

Originally Posted by GreenLanturn

I cannot remember the name of that movie! I saw it so long ago... Any help with the title?

Starship Troopers.

[Agent Minivann]

Originally Posted by Heroscape Elffy

Yeah, but Pegasuses* are manly. Unicorns are not.


*Pegasi?

I don't know where you get that a Unicorn isn't very manly. The thing has a phallic horn right on its head. Chicks like horses, which may as well be iconic male beauty. It's really just over masculinizing a masculine symbol. Think about it, only the "good girls" should even be able to see a unicorn.
[/tongue in cheek]

[Granite-M]

Originally Posted by Confred

offtopic: In Heroes of Might and Magic III, Unicorns weren't girly and were tough tanks.

Booyah, HOMM III! Played that thing until unholy hours back in the day. Almost ruined my grades in high school. Still feel myself itching to reinstall it and play a few rounds, event today.

Also, booyah war unicorns, and pretty much every unit in that game.

[Confred]

I think that since the squad will be the only figures in the pack due to their plastic count, they should have a bit more pressence and swing on the battlefield.
Secondly, I think they should be more than merely units with move of 8.

I'm thinking Hit-and-Run tactics, flanking, a heavy mount squad with Trample Stomp!, movement formations that wedge through oppositions forcing S/M figures to dash aside or get bashed themselves, perhaps charge+single figure trample, etc..etc..
Obviously the cavalry squad wouldn't have all these abilities. But take one of these ideas, flesh them out and then asign it to the appropriate general.

I remember books and movies and the like where footsoldiers quake at the thought of mounted opposition