What a great Christmas present! I think Santa has figured out what to give me each year. As I type this, I have already figured out how I'm going to organize my British and Colonial forces which will be an upcoming post. In the meantime, let's look at what came in the box with a present surprise.
All in all you get:
4 mounted British commanders
1 British standard Line Infantry regiment (80 soldiers)
1 British small Line Infantry regiment (60 soldiers)
1 British small Militia regiment (60 soldiers)
1 British tiny Light Company regiment skirmishing (10 soldiers)
1 British Artillery piece (1 cannon)
Plus:
Plastic bases
Full color British & Continental flag leaflet
Assembly & Painting guide leaflet
The Flag Sheet is the same flag sheet that is in the Continental Army Brigade box and I suspect the other boxes. Actually I'm glad I have a backup in case I mess up a flag:
British Colors: King's Color and Regimental Color for the 23rd (Royal Welch Fusiliers), 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot, 33rd (West Riding) Regiment of Foot, 44th Regiment of Foot, 63rd Regiment of Foot, and the 64th Regiment of Foot. A nice selection of Colors as it represents units that did a lot of fighting and gives you essentially one facing color each which at this scale can just represent generic units.
Hessian: Let's not forget that the Hessian or German troops made up roughly 1/3 of British forces. Leibfahne (Colonel's Colors) and Ordinärfahne (Regimental Colors) of Fusilier Regiment von Knyphausen, Musketeer Regiment von Donop, Regiment von Mirbach, Grenadier Regiment von Rall, Musketeer Leib Regiment (Erbprinz) and Musketeer Regiment von Bose.
French: Colonel's Flag and Regimental Flag for the Regiment de Gatinais.
Americans: The Betsy Ross Flag, the Grand Union flag, General Washington's Headquarters Flag and five flags with the Striped Canton and a colored field. I think we got a little lazy with the American flags; then again, it is really hard to pin down which flags were actually carried. Washington's HQ flag is perplexing as there are no "HQ units" in the range but I look at it as a vignette project.
For the troops you get 2 frames of the British Infantry; I was surprised to see the additional mounted commander/officer that doesn't get advertised on the Warlord web site. As with the other "line" frames you have the option of one or two standard bearers. Since these will be British units they will definitely have two. Just so you know, I don't care if a particular unit didn't carry their colors in a battle - they are going to carry them on my tabletop!
A close up of the light infantry skirmishing. I particularly like the officer with the sword in a heroic pose.
I was pleasantly surprised to see the officer on the right; I assumed, since I had only seen pictures of the officer on the left, that it was the only one in the set. At this scale it can also be a Hessian officer or Continental office by carefully trimming the gorget from the figure (not to get ahead of myself but I did that and it's easy!)
In addition there is one generic infantry sprue that you guessed it - will be painted as British Infantry. The less standard uniformed figures will find themselves in the American militia. The artillery are gong to have head swaps and wear the helmet for two reasons: The American and British artillery uniforms are very similar so I want the British to be easily recognizable and, I'll be using the tricorn decapitated heads to replace the heads of drummers wearing the bearskin for my Continentals.
There you go - on to painting!
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