"Does anyone make a fleeing soldier rout marker in 15mm?" Topic

For some time I have used tokens to mark routing units from the merely retreating.

Recently someone grabbed some chickens from my terrain and we started using them as markers, but I would rather use them as "loot" markers and it seems a bit insulting to troops that have just had enough.

Then I remembered a computer game where routing soldiers were marked with a picture of a soldier in small clothes running wildly after dropping his musket, throwing off his belts and even tossing his coat to get away as fast as possible. It seems to me this would be the perfect marker to drop within a fleeing regiment in rout. It doesn't suggest everyone in the unit is doing that, but does suggest at least one of them has called it quits in the worst possible way and mark the whole unit as routing.

Does anyone know anyone who has made a figure that could work for that purpose?

Thank you in advance.

Peter Pig has some that would do it.

Warmodelling usually have a fleeing figure in their "casualty" packs. But it's only one figure per pack. here's a pic of the British pack.

They might do you a custom pack of you emailed and asked nicely….

AB usually has a running figure in their casualty packs. But they don't do AWI.

Litko used to have some chicken tokens….

Excellent query! For some strange reason, casualty figures in general appear to be underrepresented in 15mm compared to 28s, in any period, despite the fact that there is arguably more space for such vignettes on a 15mm tabletop. And when you get a casualty figure, more often that not it's a corpse, rather than the wounded and fleeing soldiers that would be present in far larger numbers, obstructing friend and foe alike.

Let's hope some of the manufacturers are picking this up…

I think Musket Miniatures has dead figures in 15mm, but no running away ones.

2nd Peter Pig … French Imperial Guard running away in 15mm ;-)

@ Musketier,

I suspect the production cost/likely sales of such a figure are disproportionate to the effort of making them – from what I've been told, a 15mm figure takes almost as long to sculpt, but is only 1/2 or sometimes even 1/3 the price of a 28mm version.

Only in French uniforms…

There are some fantastic running figures in the Napoleonic ranges. Thank you all for sharing.

In a recent AWI game with my son, we fashioned little white flags to prop up on the command stand. I may have to go that route.

Take any 'energetically advancing' figure. Carve off his musket and point him in the other direction.

Lancashire games do/did have a very nice pack of SYW casualties, which included a chap limping off wounded without any equipment, and a hatless chap being hit. Both can be twisted and tweaked to represent fleeing troops. Otherwise, many artillery crew sets have a gunner in some non specific moving pose- obviously without a musket.