"Number of pike in Warlord Royalist/parliament plastic boxes?" Topic

How many pike/shot/command are there in the Warlord Games plastic Royalist/parliament infantry boxes?

Thanks .

Judging by the pictures here:
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You get 3 sprues in the box, each having 13 figures. (Don't know where they get the extra one to make it 40.) Of those 13 figures 8 can be armed with muskets, so I therefore assume that the remaining 5 are armed with pike. That gives you 15 pikemen in the box.

12 / 24 / 4 in that order – there's an extra pikeman figure on each of the main sprues, but that's to allow the option of some in armour or not – there are only 4 pikes on each 12/13 figure sprue, with 3 of those plus a separate smaller command sprue in the pack. You can possibly scrape together a couple of extra command figures using those bodies though – the command sprue has 3 figures on it, so assumes you use one of them to make up the command group, but there look like being enough extra arms on there to do a couple more officers, for 42 figures rather than the advertised 40.

OK, didn't realise there was a command sprue in the box as well.

There are ostensibly 42 figures in a box;

2 command sprues, each with a musician and two officers.

There are 3 sprues of infantry. Each contains 8 musketeers and 5 pikemen. However, there are only 4 pikes per sprue. So each box actually contains 24 muskets, 12 pikes, 6 command and 3 spare figures.

What almost everyone does is use the extra arms to convert the spare figures into extra command or musketeers.

Of the pike figures, one is armoured/thrusting and so defn a pike. Two are marching carrying the pike -- you can convert them to muskets using the loose muskets from the cavalry boxes. Two are "thrusting" poses and actually can work quite well as musketeers (if you ignore they have no bandolier).

I ended up getting two boxes of infantry and two battalia packs. That's made 8 units of infantry -- needing to make extra command. You can put fifer arms on a marching musketeer to get an extra musician. You can get extra sword arms from the cavalry sets to make infantry leaders[1]. It's obviously easy to give a marching pikeman a standard instead.

More seriously, there are only 2 morions per sprue, so you'll need to get metal ones to equip all the pike. Again if you get enough boxes and want to make scots, you can just swap bonnets for helmets..

[1] They look quite good with a sword arm on the right and a marching musket arm on the left -- I've started adding these leader figures to my shot sleeves just for character.