Pseudo-Victorian Cavalry Regiment

[Michael Hopcroft]

Dauntless, ever hear of "The Charge of the Light Brigade"?

Yes -- and look how good a move that turned out to be. the Crimean War was the first conflict in Europoean history to have soemthing approaching modern press coverage, which was very annoying to the British government -- because things they didn't want the public to know started getting out.

I've always theorized that the combination of Napoleonic tactics and social structures and fantasy tropes would be interesting. The Napoelonic Wars themselves would be a great inspiration for a shades-of-grey fantasy campaign, one that pits an old, corrupt and callous social order against a revoltuionary, charismatic, innovative but ruthless leader in a duel to the death. Players would have a difficult time figuring out whose side they should be on.

[Mentor]

Lancer regiments served with distinction at Omdurman and in the Boer War.

The 11th Hussars were known as the "Cherrypickers" because of their red trousers. They served in the Penninsular War and onward.


The 11th Hussars were also famed as the regiment of one Harry Paget Flashman, VC, KCJ.

[tkdguy]

Has anyone done a write-up of Harry Flashman? He'd make a great NPC (or PC, if anyone is willing to play such a character).

And there's also the movie.
Royal Flash

[tkdguy]

More Harry Flashman:

http://www.pangloss.ca/flashman/Chronology.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Flashman

[Mentor]

Has anyone done a write-up of Harry Flashman? He'd make a great NPC (or PC, if anyone is willing to play such a character).

And there's also the movie.
Royal Flash

My Pulp Hero character is H. Roger Flashman, the grandson of the famed Hector of Afghanistan. Roger (which has its own meaning in the Flashman novels) is everything that he believes the original "Flash Harry" to be, thus a good approximation without being a cad or poltoorn. Thus my recently gained indepth knowledge on Victorian cavalry units.


<font size=+1><b>H. Roger Flashman</b></font>

Player: Chuck Gabriel

<table cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td align="right"><font size=2><b>Val**</b></font></td><td><font size=2><b>Char***</b></font></td><td><font size=2><b>Cost</b></font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>15**</font></td><td><font size=2><b>STR</b></font></td><td><font size=2>5</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>14**</font></td><td><font size=2><b>DEX</b></font></td><td><font size=2>12</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>15**</font></td><td><font size=2><b>CON</b></font></td><td><font size=2>10</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>11**</font></td><td><font size=2><b>BODY</b></font></td><td><font size=2>2</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>13**</font></td><td><font size=2><b>INT</b></font></td><td><font size=2>3</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>11**</font></td><td><font size=2><b>EGO</b></font></td><td><font size=2>2</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>15**</font></td><td><font size=2><b>PRE</b></font></td><td><font size=2>5</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>14**</font></td><td><font size=2><b>COM</b></font></td><td><font size=2>2</font></td></tr><tr><td><font size=2></font></td><td><font size=2>*</font></td><td><font size=2></font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>8**</font></td><td><font size=2><b>PD</b></font></td><td><font size=2>5</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>4**</font></td><td><font size=2><b>ED</b></font></td><td><font size=2>1</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>3**</font></td><td><font size=2><b>SPD</b></font></td><td><font size=2>6</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>6**</font></td><td><font size=2><b>REC</b></font></td><td><font size=2>0</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>30**</font></td><td><font size=2><b>END</b></font></td><td><font size=2>0</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>29**</font></td><td><font size=2><b>STUN</b></font></td><td><font size=2>2</font></td></tr><td><font size=2></font></td><td><font size=2>*</font></td><td><font size=2></font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>6"**</font></td><td><font size=2><b>RUN</b></font></td><td><font size=2>0</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>2"**</font></td><td><font size=2><b>SWIM</b></font></td><td><font size=2>0</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>3"**</font></td><td><font size=2><b>LEAP</b></font></td><td><font size=2>0</font></td></tr></table><b>Characteristics Cost:</b> 55


<table cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td align="right"><b>Cost**</b></td><td><b>Martial Arts Maneuver</b></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">1**</td><td>Weapon Element: Blades*</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">5**</td><td>Defensive Strike: 1/2 Phase, +1 OCV, +3 DCV, Weapon Strike*</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">4**</td><td>Martial Strike: 1/2 Phase, +0 OCV, +2 DCV, Weapon +2 DC Strike*</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">4**</td><td>Martial Block: 1/2 Phase, +2 OCV, +2 DCV, Block, Abort*</td></tr></table><b>Martial Arts Cost:</b> 14

<table cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td align="right"><b>Cost**</b></td><td><b>Skill</b></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3**</td><td>Fast Draw 12-*</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3**</td><td>High Society 12-*</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3**</td><td>Riding 12-*</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3**</td><td>Shadowing 12-*</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3**</td><td>Disguise 12-*</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">4**</td><td>WF: Small Arms, Blades, Clubs, Fist-Loads, Lances, Unarmed Combat*</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3**</td><td>Tracking 12-*</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">8**</td><td>Survival (Temperate/Subtropical, Tropical, Desert, Mountain) 12-*</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3**</td><td>Tactics 12-*</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">2**</td><td>Navigation (Land) 12-*</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3**</td><td>Linguist*</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">1**</td><td>1) Language: Arabic (fluent conversation) (2 Active Points)*</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">1**</td><td>2) Language: Cantonese (fluent conversation) (2 Active Points)*</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">0**</td><td>3) Language: English (idiomatic) (4 Active Points)*</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">1**</td><td>4) Language: French (fluent conversation) (2 Active Points)*</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">1**</td><td>5) Language: German (fluent conversation) (2 Active Points)*</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">1**</td><td>6) Language: Hindustani (fluent conversation) (2 Active Points)*</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">1**</td><td>7) Language: Punjabi (fluent conversation) (2 Active Points)*</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">1**</td><td>8) Language: Swahili (fluent conversation) (2 Active Points)*</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">20**</td><td>+2 Overall*</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3**</td><td>+1 small arms*</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">9**</td><td>+3 with Martial Maneuvers*</td></tr></table><b>Skills Cost: </b>77


<table cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td align="right"><b>Cost**</b></td><td><b>Talent</b></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">4**</td><td>Mounted Warrior (HTH Combat)*</td></tr></table><b>Talents Cost:</b> 4


<table cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td align="right"><b>Val**</b></td><td><b>Disadvantages</b></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">10**</td><td>Psychological Limitation: Wishes to live up to the esteemed reputation of his grandfather, Harry Flashman. (Common, Moderate)*</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">10**</td><td>Psychological Limitation: Overconfident (Common, Moderate)*</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">10**</td><td>Psychological Limitation: Code of Honor (Common, Moderate)*</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">15**</td><td>Hunted: Prussian Military 8- (Mo Pow, Capture)*</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">10**</td><td>Hunted: American newspaper mogul 8- (As Pow, NCI, Mildly Punish)*</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">5**</td><td>Hunted: Various enemies and rivals of the Flashman legend 8- (As Pow, Mildly Punish)*</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">5**</td><td>Social Limitation: Subject to orders from His Majesty's War Department (Occasionally, Minor)*</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">5**</td><td>Distinctive Features: Tall, dark and handsome. Resembles the famous Hector of Afghanistan. (Easily Concealed; Noticed and Recognizable; Detectable By Commonly-Used Senses)*</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">5**</td><td>Rivalry: Professional, Prussian Junker, Rival is As Powerful, Seek to Outdo, Embarrass, or Humiliate Rival, Rival Aware of Rivalry*</td></tr></table>
<b>Disadvantage Points:</b> 75
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<b>Base Points:</b> 75
<b>Experience Required:</b> 0
<b>Total Experience Available:</b> 0
<b>Experience Unspent:</b> 0
<b>Total Character Cost:</b> 150
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<table width="100%" valign="top"><tr valign="top"><td><b>Height:&nbsp;</b>1.90 m</td><td><b>Hair:&nbsp;</b>Brown</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td><b>Weight:&nbsp;</b>100.00 kg</td><td><b>Eyes:&nbsp;</b>Brown</td></tr><tr valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow; font-weight: 700"><td colspan=2><b>Appearance:&nbsp;</b>Tall, dark and handsome, with sideburns and moustache, Roger is said to be the spitting image of his famed grandsire.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td colspan=2><b>Personality:&nbsp;</b>Fearless and honourable, Roger seeks to show that the blood of heroes still flows through the Flashman veins. His letters to "grandpapa" result in warnings not overly expose his young hide to danger. Naturally, Roger is saddened to see the old "Flash Harry" brought low by the onset of dementia which is the only possible explanation for his grandfathers admonitions to lay low and refusal to refer to him as Roger.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td colspan=2><b>Quote:</b>Never has defending English civilization and the Flashman family honor seemed to me a burden.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td colspan=2><b>Background:&nbsp;</b>English cavalry lieutenant on half pay. Son of the Vicar Harry Flashman Jr., grandson of the famed puissant Sir Harry Flashman, VC, Brigadier general, retired. Following in his family footsteps, he attended Rugby, and went on to Cambridge and the Army. Served in the Sudan, Transvaal, the Peking legation, and as an observer at Kettle Hill. Remembered fondly by such notaries as Theodore Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, Flashman III never managed to distinguish himself as did his grandfather.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td colspan=2><b>Powers/Tactics:&nbsp;</b>A horseman extraordinaire, Roger Flashman is a master of the blade, being especally fond of the saber. He does well with rifle and revolver as well, but would rather negotiate his way diplomatically.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td colspan=2><b>Campaign Use:&nbsp;</b></td></tr></table>