Just wondered why Cuirassiers have a reduced move. Now I am not from a re-enactment back ground. The nearest I have been on a horse is some gentle rides on an ex girfriends horse (this did envolve some gallops which I found interesting )
Having looked through the other sets of rules that I have lying around none of them penalise Cuirassiers in anyway. Strangley they are always in the group Heavy horse.
When it gets to full armoured Gendarmes or Cataphracts that is when the minuses kick in.
I have the idea that horse in this period mainly walk around the battlefield or at the most trot. and then even in the charge not much more than a canter would be involved. This would be to make sure that everyone arrives together in mass.
Thoughts