Bucephaloptor

Sweeping out his sword in one magisterial swish, General Wasselt Chumpollion signalled the charge over the hill with his regiment - the Queen’s Mounted Rustlers - roaring up on his rear. He cut a dashing figure mounted up on his brightly painted war bucephaloptor (from the Amament Forgeworks of Dimlico). Truth be told it was his first real battle, a minor scuffle with a rowdy band of upset piemongers protesting the new Pie-Tax in the market square of his local town notwithstanding. He was the latest in a proud line of warriors, although none so illustrious as his great-grandfather Marlington Chumpollion, the Victor of the Battle of Penheim, for whom a grateful King and nation had bestowed a lovely garden pavilion and rose garden. And so this mighty line was once again called upon for frightful combat in service of a worthy cause. Rounding over the rise, Wasselt and his regiment came face to face with their enemies - the lawless Custard Smugglers bringing ashore barrels of the untaxed hot-stuff.