Hi John,
I’ve heard of infantry moving along with horses. The idea is that the infantry hold on and jog, with their feet moving more than a meter between paces. I think it was more to speed up the movement of infantry over long distances, rather than being used when the horse was attacking, but I’m not an expert on this tactic.
Anyway, assuming that orcs actually do this, I’ve some comments...
A three hex hog is so big, that if the hog had a wooden structure mounted to its saddle, I could see FOUR lesser orcs moving along behind. If the hog is moving more than 16 hexes per turn, I would require them to make a 3vsDX or fall when they let go, and they can do NOTHING on the turn that they let go, except run forward (and hopefully not fall).
I rather like this post, good job!
Warm regards, Rick.
This idea came about from Rick Smith's (not so recent) post on Entelodonts, Khurasan Miniatures 15mm hobgoblin hell pig cavalry (see link below) and a conversation with my brother about an article he read that said something about Alexander the Great's Companion Cavalry being so effective because each horseman carried 2 light infantry who hung onto the stirrups and were dropped off just before attacking the enemy. I've tried googling the Alexander cavalry piece & couldn't find anything so it's possible (probable?) that he was confused and just combined two separate things he read somewhere but, as a result, I present to you the Hobgoblin Companion Cavalry
<insert name here> the Great was a legendary Orcish commander who was able to briefly unite the various orc and goblinoid tribes into a grand army. Of all the units that composed the army none were feared more than the Hobgoblin Companion Cavalry. It's not really known why they were referred to as the Companion Cavalry because, other than a love of strong drink and mayhem there doesn't seem to be much that united them into a unit.
However, in addition to being mounted on Hellhogs the Companions, each rider when charging into combat would carry, clinging to a specially designed harness, two lesser orcs that would be dropped off just before the charge impact. What this meant is that any opposing force was hit by a one-two punch of heavily mounted hobgoblins which was quickly followed up by a force of skirmishers that was twice the size of the cavalry.
John Linzy
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