#cavalry saber

[untitledgoosegay]

i saw someone mentioning -- although i don't know if this is actually true -- that they saw preston switching to melee in close quarters more than other companions

which does make a certain amount of practical sense: even compared to other midrange rifles, the laser musket does not handle well in close quarters. if you can't duck around a corner you are not going to get a spare second to crank up another shot

on the other hand, unarmed melee isn't really the best way to handle that situation, especially when your enemy might be coming at you with a tire iron or a machete or a chainsaw or whatever the fuck

what i'm saying is get this man a cavalry saber

[dykebeckett]

fuck with me

[worstloki]

Mu Qing with a giant anti-horse sword while everyone else gets to use conventionally sized weapons like regular length swords and fans 🤝 Ling Wen as a civil official having the brocade immortal making her strong enough to rival martial ones

[canat-yerhasan1]

Ecole d'escrime du 10e régiment de hussards. Cuirassier and hussar. Sepia. 20 x 28 cm.

[fabledshadow]

I’m aware that this is so, so not the point but I can’t stop thinking about Kurt’s swords. Like. Did he bring them with him from Genosha? In a golf bag? How many does he have? Did he just roll up to the Blackbird when it was time to leave with a golf bag full of swords over his shoulder?

[apieters]

In This Scene…

André Caron, one of the tritagonists of my Disney Fanfiction project Swashbucklers of the Magic Kingdom, was,at one point, a cavalry officer in the household of Prince Henri “the Charming” of theMagic Kingdom’s French district. He was a master swordsman (only his best friend, the tyrannosaur Chris Carnovo, was his equal), an excellent horseman, and a daring warrior, frequently riding ahead of his Black Hussars and slashing his way through outnumbering enemies to seize victory. It was his greatest ambition to become a Knight of the Magic Kingdom, an honor bestowed only on those who risked their lives to accomplish some great deed on behalf of a Prince or Princess of the Magic Kingdom or one of their districts.

As of the current timeline, those days are long gone, and his skill with his saber and his friendship with his old horse, Shadow, is all that is left of the once dashing young cavalier. André is cold, harsh, and perpetually melancholic. But perhaps, as he and Chris bodyguard Prince Kopa of the Pridelands, the cavalry officer of old may ride once more…

Behind the Scenes

I have a massive backlog of sketches that I’m finally trying to finish. This was one of them.

I traced a picture of a US Cavalry reenactor cutting at a sandbag with a saber. I want to get better at drawing cavalrymen, so I used them as a model and overlaid my character over the tracing.

I couldn’t figure out who I could make an antagonist for André, but I decided that the French District and the English district of the Magic Kingdom got I to conflicts often, so I decided to make the Mooks André rides through redcoats, perhaps in the employ of the unscrupulous East India Company lead by Lord Cutler Beckett.

[kultofathena]

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ARRIVING EARLY SEPTEMBER

THE LK CHEN BRITISH 1796 LIGHT CAVALRY SABER.

[marielschism]

what are vincent's weapons of choice!!!!!

[cutecuttlefish]

The sword of the day is the Model 1860 Light Cavalry Saber.

This saber was the sword of choice for U.S. cavalry during the American Civil War; one of the last wars in which cavalry charges were used as a viable tactic. Indeed, towards the tail end of the war, many soldiers had replaced their sabers with extra revolvers, and often it was left in the saddle while soldiers fought on foot with weapons like the Henry rifle.

[thefrontierfacade]

the fire out in the void / how it feels

ft. painting by Fauve

Milanese plate armor actually allows great flexion. You can totally, and easily, sit in the fetal position. Sent from my flip phone.  

[heyitslapis]

probably one of the subtly hottest facts about me is that i own two swords

[joachimnapoleon]

My Napoleon Review

I really wanted to like this movie. When it was first announced, I was one of the people in our little community here with a hopefully-optimistic, wait-and-see approach. I wanted to love it the same way I loved Gladiator and Kingdom of Heaven and other historical epics that, despite not being historically accurate, still managed to hook me with good storytelling, excellent casts, and memorable battle scenes and imagery. Ridley Scott's Napoleon has none of the above.

You know what I liked about it? The uniforms. The uniforms looked magnificent and were probably the most accurate aspect of the movie. Almost like Scott had help from historians, but that can't be the case, because Scott says he didn't actually need historians to make Napoleon.

What I was not expecting from this movie was to be bored. Yet that's what I was, for at least the first hour and a half. I'm honestly just perplexed by this even now. I don't know how it's actually possible to make the life of Napoleon Bonaparte so thoroughly uninspiring and dull, but Scott managed to pull it off.

To be fair, he was aided in this superhuman effort by Joaquin Phoenix. I never in my wildest dreams could've seen him doing such a poor job with his interpretation of Napoleon. But honestly, the fact that he's too old for the role actually ended up being the least of what I disliked about this performance, which was basically everything. The early reports coming out when the movie was still being produced about Phoenix putting a lot of effort into understanding Napoleon's psychology gave me what turned out to be a completely misguided hope. When you read descriptions of Napoleon from his contemporaries, you see an energetic, charismatic, vibrant being who exerted an almost inexplicable magnetism that drew people to him and inspired devotion and admiration, even among his critics. There is nothing even remotely inspiring, energetic, charismatic, or vibrant about Phoenix's grim, dour, monotoned Napoleon. He only ceases being grim and dour to become a clown, or to indicate to Josephine in some undignified manner that he is once again in need of sex (at one point he actually oinks repeatedly). In one scene he literally crawls under the dining room table towards her on all fours, while the embarrassed valets watch.

The relationship between Napoleon and Josephine is totally devoid of chemistry. Kirby's acting was fine, but she was given a trash script to work with. At one of their early meetings, Josephine flat-out spreads her legs in front of Napoleon, invites him to look down, and declares that once he sees what's down there, he'll never stop wanting it. It was the cringiest scene imaginable, and frankly an insult to the real Josephine's memory, as were the pathetic sex scenes. The scene of the official divorce is stripped of any dignity by Scott, who decided to have Josephine randomly chuckle at various points while reading her statement, and then made it even worse by having Napoleon actually slap her across the face.

Even the battle scenes were a joke for the most part, and that was the one area where I was certain this movie would shine. It's the usual fare of Side A charges across an open field at Side B, with no discernible tactics whatsoever. Napoleon yells "Send in the infantry!" Shortly after that, "Send in the cavalry!" Corps, regiments etc are just nonexistent; the armies are just big masses hurtling towards each other while the artillery blasts continuously. The Borodino battle scene lasts maybe two minutes and was just disappointing on every level, like damn near everything else in this movie.

Oh, remember that bit from one of the trailers of Napoleon charging headlong, saber drawn? That actually occurs during the Borodino scene. The battle during which real-life Napoleon was uncharacteristically lethargic (and possibly ill) and barely left his tent. And then to top it off, Scott also has Napoleon ride into the fray during the Waterloo scene, and start cutting English soldiers down with his saber like Mel Gibson's William Wallace in Braveheart. I almost fell out of my chair laughing.

The guy they cast to play Wellington appeared to be at least 60 years old. Christopher Plummer he was not. I'm actually planning to watch Waterloo sometime this weekend as a pallet-cleanser.

I imagine the eventual four hour director's cut Scott has spoken of will flesh the narrative out more, but I'm not even sure I'm interested in seeing it after this. I can only hope the rumored Spielberg HBO series on Napoleon will transpire and put in the effort that Scott was not willing to.

Well, the good news is that Rod Steiger is no longer my least favorite Napoleon.

[brucewaynehater101]

I just had a thought about the Spider Tim/Emperor Tim AU crossover thing

GL tries to make a stealthy incursion via portal onto a planet where the Silken Emperor Obi Wan Kenobi is known to be, and which already sees the GLC as the bad guys bc the GLC wants to harm/depose their beloved Emperor, but fuck up the coordinates and end up in a daycare center on the other side of the planet. A planet that already sees them as villains. All hell breaks loose: The children run screaming, the daycare staff attack the GLC with chairs and stuff to try to buy the kids time, the planetary police are called, and Tim shows up to lure the Corps away.

Ooh! And the daycare robots also attack the GLC, but since they're robots they don't get nonlethally incapacitated. These daycare robots are also sentient and the mangled survivors start an entirely separate lawsuit against the GLC from the one the Emperor is doing. (HC that the public front of the suit is this sort of robotic Nutcracker made to resemble a symbol of childhood joy from the Emperor's homeworld, and the poor guy is attached to the robot version of a mobile life support unit after he tried to thump Hal Jordan over the head with his prop cavalry saber)

New-to-the-team Lantern: "Are we the bad guys?"

The GLC being attacked by a group of children is a cute and funny concept.

However, it would be cool as hell to see the "baby overlord" switch into "parent bear" mode after hearing that his children citizens were "attacked." He would be ruthless in court if he doesn't outright beat them up.

Tim, by the end of the week, becomes an expert on space law just so he can't sue the hell out the GLC for "attacking" children (I'm putting the quotations there because it sounds more like the children were attacking the GLC while the GLC only retaliated against the robots and maybe adult caretakers).

I'm also super curious about these sentient robots if you'd like to go more in detail about them ^^

[contemptible-scoundrel]

just beheaded the grinch with an old cavalry saber #yourewelcome

[anghraine]

If you have the time, O Aragorn Expert, could you please point out a few places in the text(s) where it's described what Aragorn actually *did* during his long rule? There's the bit in the Appendices in Éomer's section where it glancingly mentions the two of them saber-rattling together, but is there more than that?

I don't think anyone has ever called me an Aragorn expert before, lol, but thanks for the interest! Off the top of my head, the main descriptions of his rule are in the glowing but vague description in LOTR itself:

He became thus King both of Arnor and Gondor, and overlord of the ancient allies of Mordor to whom he now granted mercy and peace.

In Peoples of Middle-earth, less euphemistically:

All men that had allied themselves with Sauron were slain or subjugated.

In the passage in the Appendices you mention:

And wherever King Elessar went with war King Éomer went with him; and beyond the Sea of Rhûn and on the far fields of the South the thunder of the cavalry of the Mark was heard, and the White Horse upon Green flew in many winds until Éomer grew old.

And, in the most detail, in Letter 244, which is actually about Faramir:

Also, to be Prince of Ithilien, the greatest noble after Dol Amroth in the revived Númenórean state of Gondor, soon to be of imperial power and prestige, was not a 'market-garden job' as you term it. Until much had been done by the restored King, the P. of Ithilien would be the resident march-warden of Gondor, in its mean eastward outpost - and also would have many duties in rehabilitating the lost territory, and clearing it of outlaws and orc-remnants, not to speak of the dreadful vale of Minas Ithil (Morgul). I did not, naturally, go into details about the way in which Aragorn, as King of Gondor, would govern the realm. But it was made clear that there was much fighting and in the earlier years of A.’s reign expeditions against enemies in the East. The chief commanders, under the King, would be Faramir and Imrahil; and one of these would normally remain a military commander at home in the King's absence. A Númenórean King was monarch, with the power of unquestioned decision in debate; but he governed the realm with the frame of ancient law, of which he was administrator (and interpreter) but not the maker. In all debatable matters of importance domestic, or external, however, even Denethor had a Council, and at least listened to what the Lords of the Fiefs and the Captains of the Forces had to say. Aragorn re-established the Great Council of Gondor, and in that Faramir, who remained by inheritance the Steward (or representative of the King during his absence abroad, or sickness, or between his death and the accession of his heir), would [be] the chief counsellor.

[apieters]

CHARGE!

In This Scene

As they got into their teenage years, André Caron and Chris Carnovo drifted apart a bit. Chris continued to be involved in privateering but was also involved in theatre in his young adulthood, specifically opera and ballet. André, meanwhile, pursued a career in the cavalry.

André joined a regiment of Prince Henri “the Charming’s” household, the Black Hussars. The regiment was named after its black uniforms and black horses, and for its dark reputation of hunting dangerous criminals and outlaws. André quickly rose through the ranks and became its captain. At one point, the regiment had a young stallion that refused to be tamed. André decided to take him for a ride to wear him out, but the horse bolted, careening down the street and causing a general ruckus. Soon, however, André realized what was going on—the horse had spotted an apple cart and wanted treats. André managed to get the horse under control and took it back to the garrison, sternly warning him never to do that again. However, the next morning the horse found André with a bag of apples, and from then on the horse refused to be ridden by anyone but André.

The horse was named Shadow, and he would remain André’s loyal steed until the young man’s disappearance just before the Reign of Terror, when a new captain claimed the horse for himself: the infamous Tristan L’Hermite, the Black Knight.

Behind the Scenes

This was another picture that sat around for months before I decided what to do with it—long enough that I forgot how I managed to draw the horse, Shadow! I’ve really wanted to learn how to draw horses for a while, and so I decided to draw André on his horse, who plays a key role in Swashbucklers of the Magic Kingdom.

I’m pretty sure that I initially traced a painting I found on Pinterest of a Napoleonic cavalryman, taking it down to its foundational shapes. Then, I used that initial construction-shape tracing as my drawing reference for Shadow. So I actually did manage to draw a horse all by myself!

But why do horses have so many joints…?