"Perry news... only marching figures?" Topic

I like them… but why only marching figures?

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It's only me? Or we need another posses too?

Amicalement
Armand

Most advancing/charging poses are hard to do well I think. Marching figures are easy to sculpt and cast – those undercuts and so forth not so much of an issue. I think the best 'advancing/charging' figures are Connoisseur and Elite. They have real animation, if not the same level of cast detail.

I just happy to see such units being represented at all

Personally I think that the marching pose is the most useful as it is easier to produce and is the pose that soldiers in battle would be in most of the time. However, I also like to see 'firing line' figures to compliment them as these are good for skirmishers etc. However, if there is only going to be one set of figures, I prefer 'marchers'.

My favourite pose is advancing at the low porte. Marching figures look wrong when they are getting near to the enemy on the wargames table.

There were only ever three battalions, and only for a short time. My guess is adding more poses won't increase sales enough to cover the costs to make them.

I think I'll chip in here :)
Marching poses are the most useful poses for Napoleonic infantry, I would say, which is why the first Infantry figures in Napoleonic ranges (well our ranges at least) are marching….it's something they did a lot of. Charging and advancing poses look dramatic but less friendly when put in columns of march due to lowered bayonets etc. We do make them, but they're not nearly as popular as the standard marching/march attack poses. Not that that stops us!
As you can see the Kingdom of Holland is a new range so it's best to start with marching poses. There were actually were 9 regiments of Line( 2 battalions each) not including Guard and Jaeger battalions during the Kingdom of Holland short existence. 8 Line battalions served in Germany in 1806 (plus Jaeger battalions and Guard),14 battalions in Swedish Pomerania in 1807, 2 battalions in Spain in 1809 and 4 regiments in Pomerania in 1809.
There were 20 Bavarian Field battalions of which some stood alongside the Bavarian Line after the army's attrition in the 1812 campaign.
Hope this helps Alan

Back in the day I got a bunch of Old Glory 15mm Napoleonic figures "Advancing".

The turned out to be the most annoying figures I ever purchased always getting in the way of other units, hard to store and looked ridiculous when not on the attack.

Troops of the period spent a lot more time marching than anything else, both on and off the battlefield.

Perrys, or anyone else, would have to pay me to buy "Charging or Advancing" figures!

Thanks Alan!.

Amicalement
Armand

I had to increase the base widths of my Napoleonic 15MM OG infantry just so the figures wouldn't get jammed by the bayonets behind!

Charging with a bayonet on can be a tough set of figures to base.

Advancing, not so much. Personally I prefer advancing over marching which I find kind of boring looking.

I am very happy with the marching poses, they look good, paint up well, are easy to store (no bayonets poking in the neck of the previous rank) AND this is the pose the troops would adopt most of the time, charging/advaning with levelled bayonets was something fairly rare.

Prefer marching poses myself with the odd firing line or charging unit for a change but marching is more useful I tgink. Easier to base. Looks ok most of the time. Firing lines look ok until you form a column.

Marching pose is by far the most expansive position to sculpt figures, particularly for 18th 19th century European armies. Obviously for skirmishers, this does not suit, hence the considerable support packs Perry Mins make.

I personally love the look of massed march attack units for my Napoleonic armies.

Thanks Alan for contributing & clarification. On a side note, any chance you might re-visit your British Napoleonic lights in a marching pose? the advancing 'at trail' is a nightmare to base in close order.

I agree with the fact that marching poses are the most useful in wargaming.
However considering that these figures as well as the others Conferderation of the Rhine ones are referred to small units they would be often used in skirmish game thus requiring more varied poses.
Besides is such a fantastic thing to have neglected nationalities made by the Perry that I don't really mind what the pose is:-)
Marco

The new Perry Napoleonic releases look great but I do hope that Alan produces some advancing/charging and firing poses for these nationalities.

And there are these too -could they be used as Swedes -or are Swedes on the way?!!!

I've heard a rumour that Swedes are planned – and Wurttembergers

Agreed march attack is most useful pose. I'm looking forward to Austrian range being finished off (jaegers and uhlans), and hopefully some dress uniform for the French guard cavalry Chasseurs, Grenadiers and Empress Dragoons.

Speaking of skirmishers. They had greens up on their Facebook page of skirmishing British infantry and marching British in Peninsula and 1807 kit.