"What to Do With British Pioneers? Command Stands" Topic
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 06 Aug 2018 9:51 a.m. PST |
You were asked… TMP link If you purchase the 28mm Old Glory British command pack for AWI, you get a handful of these chaps. What do you do with them? #1 answer (18%) – Paint and put in your command unit
#2 answer (14%) – Paint them then group them together to make a unit for the regiment.
#3 answer (11%) – Use them for skirmish gaming. |
| Winston Smith | 06 Aug 2018 4:13 p.m. PST |
Sending them to me is still a viable option. |
| Old Contemptibles | 09 Aug 2018 11:11 p.m. PST |
Base them individually and have one or two around redoubts and other fortifications as " furniture" with no particular purpose other than decorative. OG is famous for adding additional figure types for no particular reason. However if you really need engineers they probably make the only ones. I stopped buying OG AWI figures years ago. Perry and Foundry are so much better. |
| historygamer | 11 Aug 2018 6:39 p.m. PST |
I believe they were missed in the Guides and Pioneers during the Philly campaign. |
| historygamer | 12 Aug 2018 3:56 a.m. PST |
Massed, not missed. Auto correct got me. |
| Winston Smith | 12 Aug 2018 6:18 a.m. PST |
Weren't the Guides and Pioneers Loyalist troops? I have used the Pioneers from the Old Glory British command pack as a +1 for a unit storming a fortification. Make them a key card (TSATF) target, and the storming party loses the +1 if he is taken out. One pioneer per storming party. Oh. He had to have the proper facings color!  |
| historygamer | 13 Aug 2018 8:43 a.m. PST |
I seem to recall that during the march on Philly the pioneers from the battalions were massed to help clear the roads, etc. I believe I read that in McGuire – but I could be misremembering. :-) |
| Virginia Tory | 15 Aug 2018 6:00 a.m. PST |
HG and I thought about fielding them in a game to knock down fences and stuff, but we never got around to it. During the Birmingham Hill fight, they went forward to take down fences. I think that's in McGuire. |
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