Epic Revolution, Part 12: Light Company, 71st (Frasier's Highlanders) Regiment of Foot

A light company of the 71st (Frasier's Highlanders) Regiment of Foot lead the way and harass the Continental Infantry.

During the American War for Independence, the 71st (Frasier's Highlanders) was unique in that two battalions served in North America. It is a great unit to have on the tabletop as they fought in many major battles both in the Northern and Southern theaters.

Since the 71st had two battalions, they also had a two light infantry companies. It is rare to see light troops of the Highland units on the AWI tabletops and I, for one will remedy this! In fact, half of the converged light infantry unit at Cowpens were from the light companies of the 1/71st and the 2/71st.

The Highlander unit pack from Warlord Games Epic Revolution comes with 10 light infantry figures that are molder individually instead of the normal strips. My unit has 9 figures as one of the figures fell from a great height and was stepped on by a giant during recovery operations. Sad to say, repair was impossible. The figures are "Warlord Resin" which is superior to Warlord Games' first attempt with resin figures. They needed just a little bit of clean up with a hobby knife. I primed them (of course!) and attached them to old bottle caps for the painting process.

For figures this small, I anticipated that the diced band on the bonnet and their wings would be a challenge. Fortunately both are molded on the figures making this stage of the process doable. The unit pack also comes with six wood bases that are 60mm x 20 mm.

I will be also using the figures for One Hour Wargames and this is how they will deploy with stands back to back.

Now it's time for me to decide what unit to do next. Currently the American's have one Continental Line unit and one artillery gun while the forces of the Crown have one Hessian Musketeer unit and the now competed light company from Frasier's Highlander. I'm either going to do the 33rd Regiment of Foot or a unit of militia.