Polish Cavalry 1939

[Wyrmshadow]

Have you tried using "super fine" anti-aliasing in the document setup? I had to do that to keep parts of my airship's propellers from disappearing in some places, and it worked rather well.

Other than that, good unit. I think the rifle could be attack A, charge be attack B and Saber attack C (or maybe just the rifle as attack A and saber as attack B, sorta like the guerilla with his Ak-47 and bayonet).

I used the Premium setting.

No, thereis no good way to include the saber attack. Must wait for SSS to be made.

 

[Wyrmshadow]

I was just testing it out in-game and it seems to work okay if you use the Civ Cavalry INI file with all it's sounds and amb files.

 

[Panzer_Blitz]

Nice Unit, I also like how you cleared up the misbeliefs of Polish Cavalry charging Panzers.

 

[W.i.n.t.e.r]

*cough cough* blame "Lotna"

 

[Panzer_Blitz]

Umm I don't think I follow ... "Lotna" ??? Please elaborate.

 

[Wyrmshadow]

Umm I don't think I follow ... "Lotna" ??? Please elaborate.

WINTER looked up the name of the movie that spread the myth.

 

[Straczynski]

For those who are interested, here's the IMDB entry for the movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053019/ . Roman Polanski had a small role on it.

BTW, wonderful unit, Wyrm!

 

[GenMarshall]

Excelent unit , This unit would be good for the Industrial Age (World War I Age) heavy cavalry unit for civilizations that do not have oil.

 

[QFred]

Good unit!!!! Bad way to introduce it.
Can someone that has got Rise of Nations with the expansion, PLEASE convert these unit:
Biplane
Advanced Fighter
Flamethrower
Sloop
Bazooka
Slingers
American:
Continental Marine
Marine Riflemen
Marine Infantry
Assault Marine
Lakota:
Musket Horse
Repeating Rifle Horse
Iroquois:
Okwari
Persians:
Anusiya
Athanatoi
Arquebus Immortal
Indians:
Mahout
Gun Mahout
Culverin Mahout
Dutch:
Clipper
Fluyt
Brig

 

[QFred]

I agree with CivGeneral about that. The unit is great for the Napoleonic era.
I don't know if it is an Hussar, but if it is, there is already one in C3C and belongs to Polonia

 

[Wyrmshadow]

I agree with CivGeneral about that. The unit is great for the Napoleonic era.
I don't know if it is an Hussar, but if it is, there is already one in C3C and belongs to Polonia

No it isn't. This is WW2, NOT a Napoleanic War Era.

 

[W.i.n.t.e.r]

I agree with CivGeneral about that. The unit is great for the Napoleonic era.
I don't know if it is an Hussar, but if it is, there is already one in C3C and belongs to Polonia

Its an Ulan (lancier).

 

[Wyrmshadow]

Yes and the WW2 cav was also called a Uhlan. There's quite a bit of difference 100 years can make.

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

WW2 was the last great conflict that Cavalry played a roll in, although, they have been used a bit in Afghanistan.

Good to see you branching off into new avenues Wyrm, also thankyou for teaching me something new, my family is from Poland, and I'd always assumed that Cavalry charge against the Germans was historically accurate. You learn something new everyday I guess.

 

[Panzer_Blitz]

I wonder how it came to be widely believe that Poland actually sent their Cavalry on somekind of suicide charge on German Panzers.

 

[Wyrmshadow]

As for the whole Polish Cavalry charges against german Panzers, here's the two most "accurate" tellings I've been able to piece together.

#1. A cavalry squadron was overtaken by some Panzer's and armored cars, and they fought their way out.

#2. A battalion of german infantry was found by a cavalry company and an order was issued to charge the force. In the middle of the engagement a group of german panzers and armored cars came to the relief of the infantry "from nowhere". The cavalry was of cource outclassed in this engagement and they fought their way out, losing 20 men including their CO. Later on an Italian camera crew happened upon the carnage after the battle and asked what happened. The Germans said that the cavalry charged their tanks. There was even a propaganda filmed made in about 1941-42 that "renacted" this battle.

In both stories its either an Italian or German documentary film crew that either filmed the dead bodies or the breakout from the armored force.

 

[Panzer_Blitz]

Some good researching Wyrmshadow, I suppose the myth may have stuck over the years because it might have represented how Poland fought on valiently and alone against Germany while her Allies sat Idely by. But thats just the way I made sense of Nazi propaganda becoming almost accepted history.

 

[Wyrmshadow]

I made sense of Nazi propaganda becoming almost accepted history.

BINGO! And why I put that most strenuous threat at the begining of this thread.

 

[GenMarshall]

I agree with CivGeneral about that. The unit is great for the Napoleonic era.
I don't know if it is an Hussar, but if it is, there is already one in C3C and belongs to Polonia

Napoleonic Era?! I dont think that this unit would fit well in the Enlightement era (Note: My Mod uses a losely baised ages from RoN) I would see that this unit is a good offensive unit for the Late Industrial Age (World War I). Note that I made an emphasis that the Late Industrial Age is the World War I era in my mind, the Atomic Age would represent the World War II, Korean War Conflicts.

 

[Stonebear]

One of my friends in middle school had a great uncle who was a Polish cavalry officer. I asked him about the whole tank vs. cavalry thing. His response was: "If we had used our cavalry against German tanks then we would have ambushed them from the rear, leapt on their tanks, and decapitated the commanders since they were always sticking their heads out of the turret." He explained to me that the Polish commanders knew that mounted cavalry was relatively useless against tanks, but useful against infantry. I don't know much about the Polish use of cavalry but his unit was used to ambush lightly defended machinegun nests and other infantry positions on the German flanks. They also ran through one artillery unit.
Just thought I would share.