In making up the War of 1812 scenarios I have a couple of battles where the Americans have a single troop of cavalry (around 60 odd men). Apparently the guys working on the AWI version are running into the same problem.
I obviously can't rate this as a full unit so I am playing with the idea of cavalry skirmishers based on some concepts from Grande Armee.
Basically I am thinking that a Cav SK base would make the SK rating of the opponent == 0 but not add to the SK value of the unit it is attached to.
The idea is thus. US unit A (SK 2 + Cav SK) faces British unit B (SK 3). British unit is now SK 0 for firing and the US unit remains SK2.
Sound reasonable?