Terminator said:
I don't think it's technically possible to adapt air units for that purpose.
Anyway if you are concerned about the necessity of far-stretching, outflanking cavalry raids it will be very possible taking into account the vastness of East Europe and low number of regiments.
Low number of regiments in general do you mean ?
So how many men will be represented by one unit ?
The main problem is that:
those units will have to engage its enemies to cause damage,
will be possible to cut off and destroyed too easily,
will require supplies and supply lines which WAS NOT the case in reality,
This all pretty much RUINS their purpose and turns them into something which will either make them super 'uber armies' which will win the game on their own by taking huge spaces of enemy territory in a very short time or at least cut off 'propoer' armies from supplies winning the war this way as well...
The main advantage of the airforce based light cavalry is that it DOESN'T occupy territory, doesn't have to engage the enemy (but can if necessary) so it cannot win a war on its own.
It is only an excellent scouting, pursuing, harrassing and riding force which can turn retreat in a nightmare, stop an offensive by destroying the organisation of advancing forces, launch 'strategical bombing' (raiding) and counter similar forces of the enemy.
Plus, of course there is the use for transport 'airplanes' which could deliver supplies to 'besieged' forces.
I am sorry, but with fast moving , but ordinary cavalry states like the Crimean Khanate will either be extremely dangerous or destroyed in time of a year or two because their armies were not really useful to capture territory.
In a way the riding, the 'small war' was the essence of Habsburg and Polish-Lithuanian borderlands, similar with Russia and Sweden (thanks to Finland) and Denmark (Norway) - not field battles, but the danger of enemy cavalry destroying supplies and making a life of an organised offensive force a nightmare stopped more than one offensive and won more than one war.
[B said:
Agressor[/B]]Cavalry raiders flying back and forth over enemy lines ? Will look rather strange
I thought it out. I wrote about it on the page number ONE - please read it.
I am not some random guy who doesn't know what he is talking about or read one book and believes in his genius - I helped more than once to a number of historians writing about the warfare in early modern era and in fact I am still toying with the idea to write a book on my own, most likely about less known armies of the XVIth and XVIIth century - Moldavian, Wallachian, Transylvanian, Circassian, Tartar, Montenegrin etc.
My working environment are Total War series games, but I find the HoI engine quite promising in several ways, especially the possibility to have fast moving units which don't have to fight the enemy and occupy territory on strategic level - something most of other games lack.
