Designed by Tony Quickenden. I have been sent 107 British Infantry to review (I don't see any Scots). I will list them, comment on some of them and draw a few of them, not to scale. Redoubt's earliest releases were Napoleonic Peninsular figures, if I remember correctly, and it seems they have decided to create more diverse characters and poses plus tattered uniforms and misshapen shakos to give the "campaign look." Also there are numerous head and shako variants to give even more variety. A different designer to the first set.

British Line Infantry. Ordinary numbers have the stovepipe shako, figures with a 'b' after the number have a Belgic shako.

BR1 Line infantry advancing. Musket at 45 degrees. Stovepipe shako.

BR1b Line infantry advancing. Musket at 45 degrees. Belgic shako.

BR2 Line infantry in campaign wear, advancing. Stovepipe. One floppy epaulette, battered shako, trousers tucked into socks. Musket held across the body.

BR2b Ditto. Belgic shako. Shouting.

BR3 Line infantry advancing, level musket. Stovepipe. Gaunt face, purposeful.

BR3b Ditto. Belgic shako. Looking higher to his front.

BR4 Line infantry, campaign wear, level musket. Stovepipe. Bullet hole straight through the top of his shako. Grim face.

BR4b Ditto. Belgic shako.

BR5 Line infantry charging, musket held straight up. Stovepipe.

BR5b Ditto. Belgic shako. Not sent, but another BR5: different expression, head at different angle.

BR6 Line infantry advancing, musket at high porte, stovepipe.

BR6b Ditto. Belgic shako. Vigorous and detailed figures.

BR7 Line infantry on guard. Stovepipe, listening to the order "Ready!"

BR7b Ditto. Belgic shako. Amazing how different this looks with different hat and tilt of head.

BR8 Line infantry standing, firing, stovepipe. A good "in the shoulder" position.

BR8b Ditto. Belgic shako.

BR9 Line infantry in campaign wear standing firing. Stovepipe or bareheaded. A very battered stovepipe.

BR9b Ditto. Belgic shako or bare headed. This one's bare headed. Right shoe wrapped in rags.

BR10 Line infantry kneeling at the ready. Stovepipe.

BR10b Ditto. Belgic shako. Could be the front of a square.

BR11 Line infantry attack march, pack, stovepipe. Very sturdy figure - needs to be with a that kit!

BR11b Ditto. Belgic shako.

BR12 Line infantry, loading, firing, stovepipe. Could be cocking the lock fiom his hand position.

BR12b Ditto. Belgic shako.

BR13 Line infantry advancing, great coat, covered shako. Caped great coat. Good for either campaign - snow in Spain, pouring rain at Waterloo.

BR14 Dead line infantry with musket. Evidently dropped the musket and then collapsed backwards. Knees bent, right more than left. A "goner." Flank Company Infantry - Grenadiers or Light of the Line Btns.

BR15 Flank coy infantry advancing, stovepipe. These have the shoulder wings of the flankers. Musket leveled.

BR15b Ditto. Belgic shako.

BR 16 Flank coy infantry charging - yelling!

BR16b Ditto. Belgic shako. Grim grimace.

BR17 Flank coy infantry standing firing, stovepipe.

BR17b Ditto. Belgic shako. Good front knee bent positions. Omcers. Ensigns. Serjeants and Musicians of the Line

BR18 line officer standing with drawn sword, turned up trousers, battered stovepipe shako. Bullet holed actually. Floppy neck cloth, sash, one epaulette.

BR19 Line officer advancing, sword on shoulder, Belgic shako. His overalls clipped beneath instep.

BR20 Line officer standing, sword drawn, stovepipe, boots. Must have pinched a dragoon's boots. Two epaulettes and a clubbed queue.

BR21 Line of ficer in great coat, covered shako, sword drawn. Turned up trousers. Holding the hilt in his right and blade in his left. Collar turned up.

BR22 Line officer advancing, sword drawn, bicorne. One epaulette. Breeches, long woolly socks, spatter-dashes. Gaunt face - an old lieutenant.

BR23 Line officer, pistol, bicome. Water bottle on right hip, sword drawn. Short barreled pocket pistol. Leathered trousers.

BR24 Ensign standing, holding standard, wearing stovepipe. well modeled flag draped over his shoulder.

BR24b Ditto. Belgic shako.

BR25 Ensign advancing with standard pole (supply own fly) wearing stovepipe. Standard pole a bit long - take care.

BR25b Ditto. Belgic shako.

BR26 Ditto, Bicorne.

BR27 Line seargeant with half pike, stovepipe, pointing. "That way! You BS!"

BR27b Ditto. Belgic shako.

BR28 Line drummer, advancing, stovepipe.

BR28b Ditto. Belgic shako. Lots of lace. Both need their rather lumpy sword scabbards filed

BR29 Line drummer boy standing, bearskin cap. More good detail.

BR30 Fifer in stovepipe playing fife. Fife case on his right hip.

BR30b Ditto. Belgic shako. Better head position than BR30.

Light Infantry Troops trained to fight in line or in loose skirmishing formation. Usually in more active and aggressive poses than the light troops. (I was in the old 53rd/85th - i.e. 4th Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry for a time). Bligny Day is 6th June.

BR31 L.l. advancing, stovepipe.

BR32 L.I. advancing, high polte, stovepipe (all these guys have L.l. "wings" on their shoulders and "bugle horn" badges on their caps.

BR33 L.I. charging, campaign wear, stovepipe. He's looking right - have they all run away?

BR24 L.I. running, stovepipe. Separate arm (right) carrying bayoneted musket in the right hand. A great action pose, he's really moving!

BR35 L.I. standing firing, stovepipe.

BR36 L.I. advancing firing, stovepipe. Gotcha!

BR37 L.I. kneeling firing. Either regarding the effect or gauging the range I would have said.

BR38 L.I. in campaign wear advancing. Stovepipe. His ears kept warm by a type of balaclava

BR39 L.I. in campaign wear standing firing. Good position.

BR40 L I. officer blowing whistle, stovepipe. He's actually wearing the type of mirliton which L.I. officers "borrowed" along with sabres from the hussars. Drawn sabre in his right hand, point

BR41 L.l. officer waving sword with shako on the end. Looks a bit like the L.l. Captain who helped Major Sha~pe occasionally.

BR42 L.l. seargeant with fusil. Stovepipe. The weapon looks more like a Ferguson nfle.

BR43 L.I. busier playing bugle, stovepipe, slung musket.

Next. Rifles 60th and 95th Foot. Famous sharpshooters - one of the 95th Regt's sayings, "First into the batbe and last out of it - the Bloody Fighting 95th," and they weren't using blasphemy. They had no colours, they wore an almost black green uniform and were expert shots w~th their Baker rifles, which far outranged the French or their compatriots' muskets. They learned to sue every scrap of cover and load Iying down. They also had to learn a system of orders relayed on their officers' whistles. [read "Death to the French," an excellent novel by C.S. Forester (of "Homblower fame) about a Rifleman cut off from his unit and his struggles in the Pennisula to be reunited with them].

R50 Rifleman advancing, rifle at 45 degrees. Sword bayonet at his left. These had brass hilts. The Rifles use the order "Fix Swords!" (not bayonets) to this day. The trap in the butt of the rifle can be clearly seen.

BR51 Rifleman advancing, campaign wear, cap. Rifleman 'Arris perhaps? Great detail.

BR52 Rifleman running. Rifle on separate arm. Really cracking detail and excellent action pose.

BR53 Rifleman charging. Sword fixed, intent on taking out whoever of the enemy who is unfortunate enough to be in front of him.

BR54 Rifleman charging, campaign wear, cap. Shouting, mirliton style cap - rifle swordless, so he may be skipping toward better cover rather than charging as such.

BR55 Rifleman standing on guard. Slightly crouched, looking intently forward, rifle ready.

BR56 Rifleman standing firing. Wearing spatter-dashes, aiming high.

BR57 Rifleman advancing firing, campaign wear, cap. Taking a snap shot, unusual in the KRRC. "Bloody well aim!" being the usual cry of the musketry instructor - an easily recognizable species with 3 chevron markings surmounted by an 'S' & crossed rifles. Signifies "Sgt. Sniper" in the UK land forces.

BR58 Rifleman kneeling, firing. "Hull down" behind a rock perhaps.

BR59 Dead rifleman, cap. Patched trousers, rifle dropped across his left thigh. Left arson outflung. Right hand on his chest. A good marker for shaken units - so not in use very often with this elite hard-bitten lot.

BR60 Rifles officer, pelisse over shoulder, blowing whistle. Mirliton style headgear, leather reinforced trousers, frogging all over his tunic and woolly pelisse over his left shoulder. The sight of him was enough to make French voltiguers think twice about skirmishing!

BR61 Rifles bugler carrying rifle, blowing bugle. Rifle slung actually. A silver bugle usually. Spatter-dashes.

Two Heroic figures from the PX range

PX15 "Captain Sharpe" with sword and pistol. Sean Bean swashing his buckle with a pronounced N. English accent. Straight French sword and short barreled pistol. Knife on his left hip behind his sword scabbard. Looks like Sean Bean actually.

PX16 "Sergeant Harper" advancing and firing volley gun. Also looks like the actor who portrays the Sgt on TV. The volley gun was produced for the R. Navy with seven barrels - for clearing quarter decks or to assist boarding parties. Only a couple of hundred were ever made. The figure actually doesn't have his finger on the trigger.

Now! Finally Fusiliers Line troops in bearskins were issued with a lighter type of musket called the fusil. Though of themselves as elite troops. (The rest of the Infantry often called them "Few silliers.")

BR70 Fusilier advancing, musket at 45 degrees. Wings on shoulders and peaked bearskin.

BR71 Fusilier advancing, level musket, bearskin. One can see the flaming grenade badge on the front plate of his bearskin.

BR72 Fusilier advancing, musket level across the body, bearskin.

BR73 Fusilier officer advancing, bearskin. Sword across body in both hands. Queued hair.

BR74 Fusilier sergeant, half pike, bearskin. Gesturing forward, looking right, pike upright.

BR75 Fusilier drummer in bearskin. Marching forward playing - drum apron. Short musician's sword on left hip.

BR76 Fusilier standard bearer advancing with standard pole, bearskin. Queued hair, one fringed epaulette, sash. Provide your own fly. I use wine-bottle top cork covers if I can get them. Lots of lovely printed flags on the market of course. Now some drawings. (I thought I'd never get this far!) A mass of great new figures and French Infantry, Imperial Guard and dragoons on foot to follow soon.

It's my pleasure to write about yet more Polish cavalry. What a fearsome sight the "winged" cavalry must have been and the sound of wind rushing through the eagles pinions must have struck unease into the bravest hearts of their opponents. These are examples of packs of specialties, "extras" all having X in their catalogue numbers. I will list them, comment and draw some of them, not to scale.

RX41 Five Pancerni light cavalry, two part castings with bow, mace, bareheaded or with helmets. These figures can use almost any light horse and also RH23, 24, 25 and 26 which take the eagle wing. One can create a tight lot of ruffians with these stick-together torsos and legs - two packs would create a cavalry whirlwind! - and all different! (3.50pds)

RX42 Polish winged hussar with panzerschrect sword on separate arm, mail shirt. (Use horses RH 23, 24, 25, 26) The panzerschrect sword has a long straight heavy blade and could be used on horseback almost like a lance. It has a cross hilt and small quillons. The blade is deeply fullered - not to "let the blood out" as in popular imagination but to make it stronger in its length (1.00pds).

RX43 Polish winged hussar with lance couched in separate arm, mail shirt. (Use horses RH 23, 24, 25, 26) (1.00pds). Cf. the 2 Osprey books, "Polish Armies" (vols. 1 & 2) by Richard Brzezinski, illustrations by Angus McBride. Nøs.184 and 188.

RX44 Polish/Hungarian trumpeter, separate trumpet arm. (Use the same horses) A nice long straight trumpet with hanging banner for you to practice your heraldic devices upon. (1.00pds).

RX45 Polish-Hungarian kettle drummer, drumsticks crossed above his head, horse with notched saddle (i.e. high saddle capable of having an "eagles wing" fitted). (4.00pds). This range is going to: be somewhat of a disaster for my "warchest." I had a Polish army years ago - mostly Hinchliffe, Essex and Minifigs, which I swapped for - some army I can't remember. I can feel the old enthusiasm for these Easterners awakening anew! By the way, Redoubt are going to produce an ACW line - which they've never done before, so prepare for something really different and "Enterprising!!"

Bibliography: Arms & Uniforms - Age of Chivalry, Part 111, Liliane and Fred Funken, pub. Ward Lack.