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I have an ultra-low fantasy horse and musket setting where female soldiers exist in some armies - its not always common and often rare, but women are allowed to enlist in several nations, and theres even some units, such as the Maidguard of the Quizian Constitution, whom serve as the lifeguard of the Queen be she ruler or married to the King. Theres also one nation, Fecundia, which is a Matriarchy where men are seen as lesser. All the officers are female, but the infantry are all male, though poorly trained in comparison to other states. Fecundia is slightly backwards and traditionalistic, and places greater emphasis on its cavalry, of whom all the riders are female yes this is a Horsegirl reference theres some slightly more fanatical units that have very 'close' relations with their mounts, all of whom are derived from an aggressive carnivorous all stallion stock and I refuse to apologise for it which leads to them having excellent cavalry. The exception are the Empresses Guard, formed during the desperate days of the Mens Revolt when numerous Fecundian infantry regiments mutinied against the poor treatment of men in the Empire. The cavalry, good as it was, was unable to effectively attack Battalions in square and forced to rely on carbine armed skirmishing riders to fight them, or ambushing the men before they could form squares, and cavalry units where also ill-suited to holding ground, with generals resorting to ordering Dragoon and Ra'Orser units to dismount and hold urban areas and forts under Imperial control as there where too few loyalist infantry units left - and most of those where considered untrustworthy and likely to desert or mutiny too. This desperate time led to the formation of the Empress's Guard of Foot, an elite all female regiment (now Corps) of infantry tasked with holding ares and supporting the cavalry.
Sorry for the blogpost.