Some shrewd comments & interesting ideas there, MM.
You prompted me to look at my 'Bit's Box' & there are a few TD crossbows there. A small order to Paul could supply the few more needed.
I'll check out any sets that might suit & you can still get - there might be some Red Box ones?
Minuteman wrote:Just one other thought: I am pretty sure that most mounted crossbowmen actually discharged their weapons with two feet on the ground, where possible. Effectively then a medieval 'dragoon' !..
This sounds sensible...yet mounted crossbowmen's weapons didn't have the foot stirrup for loading so were they fired from the saddle at least sometimes? Mind you, it could not have been a very powerful weapon in that case.
Mounted crossbowmen don't actually seem a practical or even real? troop type? Medieval is, sometimes, dangerously close to fantasy.
donald