"Least Favorite Figure Pose (Round 1C)" Topic

Regarding "wounded" figures and similar.
I don't mind the figures per se. I dislike having to pay for them whether I want to or not. Put out a pack of wounded, surrendering, gaily leaping over barbed wire, etc. If I want them, I'll purchase that pack.
But please DO NOT make them part of a sprue with "normal" figures. If I'm buying a pack of 6 or a bag of 30, I don't want to have only 27 or 5 useful figures.

Manufacturers also need to bear in mind that these are GAMING pieces. When you have to "rank up" pikemen, spearmen etc it's maddening to have to pose them on the base so they fit along with their neighbor's.
As for horses, companies like RSM and Falcata have beautiful sculpts with "realistic" legs that break off easily, or even collapse during packaging or shipping.
My opening rant in my Poll discussion thread ranted against the pose with two legs, very thinly cast legs, were artistically off the ground. The horse's body is rather heavy and there's also a rider. Trying to fix this is frustrating and time consuming.
Harrumph!

+1 for separating casualty and "special duty/action" poses to separate packs. What's next, "soldier with shovel cleaning up behind general's horse?"

Let the customer make the choice.

Manufacturers also need to bear in mind that these are GAMING pieces

Certainly for the boxes of 1/72nd plastics they are also modelling pieces for making dioramas.

HaT have done quite a good thing of putting out boxes that will please both sides – modeller and gamer – gathering together sprues from different sets to make army sets, and doing "single pose" sets (which do include variants) of firing rifles (say) or all kinds of parade and marching poses

The "least favorite" pose often depends on the historical period in which one is gaming. For example, marching figures are a positive for horse and musket games, but a waste of plastic/metal/money for more modern periods. This topic is more a measure of what period a person games than anything else.

WW +1

I love a good casualty figure. But I definitely prefer to get them in their own packs.

A pack of 19 combatants and then one guy reading a letter from home, eating a snack, etc is frustrating in the extreme. If you are going to include non-combatants give me enough of them to make a scene.

I use prone figures as prone markers.