| Popknot | 28 Jun 2018 6:10 a.m. PST |
Do you have a favorite unit of the American Revolution? |
| Choctaw | 28 Jun 2018 6:31 a.m. PST |
My ggg+ grandfather served in the 6th Virginia Regiment of the Continental Line. I'm kind of partial to that unit. |
| Winston Smith | 28 Jun 2018 6:49 a.m. PST |
My Patriot forced are mostly generic, since uniforms were never consistent. On the British side, I think the British Legion had the most dashing uniform.
I tend to favor Loyalist units. Right now, I like my Hillbilly Highlanders best for Infantry. They're Kings Mountain backwoodsmen wearing low Scots bonnet. I am now favoring units made up of conversions. I'm really into head swaps now. 
If I could do the Welch Fusiliers wearing the low bearskin cap, I'm sure they would be my favorite.
And if I could do 1775-1776 Continentals with the very rare Grenadier mitre Cap, I would be very inclined to show favorites. |
| Jozis Tin Man | 28 Jun 2018 6:54 a.m. PST |
Kirkwood's Light Infantry for the Patriots and Hessian Jaegers for the Charleston Campaign for the British. |
| PzGeneral | 28 Jun 2018 7:48 a.m. PST |
Elmore's Regiment. There may be a connection. (I like to think so). They do appear in my 6mm AWI stuff |
79thPA  | 28 Jun 2018 8:30 a.m. PST |
Did Mollo have a picture of a dismounted Brunswick dragoon? That would be my favorite. |
| Sundance | 28 Jun 2018 9:35 a.m. PST |
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| Doug MSC | 28 Jun 2018 10:12 a.m. PST |
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| dBerczerk | 28 Jun 2018 10:29 a.m. PST |
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| Winston Smith | 28 Jun 2018 10:52 a.m. PST |
Ah yes. Lauzun's Legion Hussars.
Leave it to the French to give a fashion sense and tone to what would ordinarily be a vulgar brawl. |
| ToysnSoldiers | 28 Jun 2018 11:05 a.m. PST |
44th Regiment (East Essex). |
| rmaker | 28 Jun 2018 11:16 a.m. PST |
2nd Bn. German Flats Militia and Johnson's Greens – the family regiments. |
| 22ndFoot | 28 Jun 2018 11:38 a.m. PST |
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| FlyXwire | 28 Jun 2018 11:46 a.m. PST |
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| DisasterWargamer | 28 Jun 2018 12:19 p.m. PST |
Lee's Legion and Atlee's Battalion – Family connections |
| nevinsrip | 28 Jun 2018 1:16 p.m. PST |
Morgan's Flying Army.
He had all the good toys. Corwallis' Southern Army
He had all the British good toys. |
| Winston Smith | 28 Jun 2018 1:37 p.m. PST |
When it comes to fashion sense, the Queen's Rangers Hussars invented the leisure suit. |
| Old Contemptibles | 28 Jun 2018 1:49 p.m. PST |
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| Generalstoner49 | 28 Jun 2018 2:12 p.m. PST |
For the Continentals it is Sherburne's additional regiment. No particular reasons I just like the Brown coat with yellow facings and green small clothes. For the British I've always been partial to the 24th foot. Like the green facings and the Saratoga caps. |
| Rogues1 | 28 Jun 2018 2:36 p.m. PST |
Any Highlanders (mother from Scotland) and the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry (I grew up and live outside Philly) and they still exist today! |
| Berzerker73 | 28 Jun 2018 5:57 p.m. PST |
Delaware Continentals as well |
| 42flanker | 29 Jun 2018 4:49 a.m. PST |
The 2nd Light Infantry battalion in red jackets and pantaloons – 'The Bloodhounds'- on the first day they wore a red feather in their slouched hats- now when was that? The 42nd ditto in their cocked Highland bonnets. Now when was that- and why? At Paoli Tavern, the 44th ('West Essex' from 1783) were in the 2nd wave in the attack, in between the 2nd LI and the 42nd, but they seem to have avoided a similar reputation for being over-free with the bayonet- (which perhaps explains their lack of red feather tradition). |
| historygamer | 29 Jun 2018 5:38 a.m. PST |
42nd: Not to be overly geeky, but you mean overalls or trousers, not pantaloons. Some officers wore pantaloons – basically a fitted long leg, but without the buttons at the ankles. Instead, the bottoms of the pantaloons were tucked inside spatter dashes. Oh, slinking back into lurking after an excessive amount of geekiness. |
| historygamer | 29 Jun 2018 6:52 a.m. PST |
Here is the link to artwork that shows the soldiers in overalls and the officers in pantaloons tucked into spats. link |
| PVT641 | 29 Jun 2018 11:40 a.m. PST |
Von Erbprinz and Von Ditfurth Fusilier Regiments. |
| robert piepenbrink | 29 Jun 2018 12:12 p.m. PST |
Pennsylvania Rifles/1st Continentals Lafayette's Corps of Light Infantry. 3rd and 4th Light Dragoons. 42nd--I still like "Monmouth" for an answer to both questions. |
| Brechtel198 | 29 Jun 2018 2:30 p.m. PST |
Maryland and Delaware Continentals; Hessian Jagers; Royal and Continental Artillery; 3d Continental Light Dragoons; 17th Light Dragoons; Continental Corps of Light Infantry. |
| 23rdFusilier | 29 Jun 2018 4:00 p.m. PST |
Haslet's Delaware, Smallwood 's Marylanders and the 26th Continental regiment as well as any militia for the Americans. 23rd Royal Welch Fusiliers, Brigade of Guards and Light Infantry in campaign kit and British line infantry campaign out for British. Rall Grenadier, Lossburg and Knyphausen Fusilier regiments. New York Volunteers for Loyalists. |
| 42flanker | 30 Jun 2018 3:43 a.m. PST |
"Pantaloons"- what was I thinking? |
| 42flanker | 30 Jun 2018 4:00 a.m. PST |
Robert. "Monmouth." Interesting. |
| 95th Division | 30 Jun 2018 7:03 a.m. PST |
Maryland Continentals
British Legion |
| Militia Pete | 30 Jun 2018 5:18 p.m. PST |
Any militia…. Hence the name.
True story, I led the militia to defeat a regiment of highlanders, light infantry, grenadiers hiding behind a stone wall, and routed British cav and in the same game without routing….
Glitch in the rules of Brother vs Brother AWI version that helped win the day… |
| Virginia Tory | 03 Jul 2018 8:28 a.m. PST |
British Lights….King's Royal Yorkers. There's so many. My ancestors were with Isaac Shelby at King's Mountain. Then they went home. |
