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Both regular British Line Infantry and KGL Line infantry are 39pts (AT1 pp 100,102, 104). British Lights are 42pts vs 43pts for their dashing Hannovarian counterparts, which also have rifle mixed order capability (pp 100, 102, 103). Note that the Portuguese Cacadores cost 52 points (better stats).
By Waterloo, those KGL light batallions had up to 50% rifles (fire as rifles in skirmish, muskets in close formation) ?
Black Powder 2 quietly dropped the points system altogether – just shoot at those damned French to your hearts content!
I have often thought that the Baker might better be modeled as a rifled Carbine (with perhaps a +1 shooting modifier not at close range?), rather than a rifled Musket (such as the Harper’s Ferry M1803 https://www.strikehardgear.com/Blog/rifles-that-made-america-war-of-1812/).
Black Powder rules do not really go into that level of detail.
p 19 of the BP vII rulebook: …base size is not all that important ……. as it will make next to no difference in our game.
I’ve been using 3 cav troopers on a 60mm x 45mm base for years, merely because that is the default base size you get on the free bases with a Perry cavalry box. 4 bases for a standard Cav unit of 12 troopers – 18(6), 6(2), 3(1) troopers and bases for the large small and tiny respectively.
As long as you & your opponents are happy, fine.
Exact base width matching between cavalry, infantry & artillery isn’t critical. If the Cav get into contact, their opponents will likely break, not noticing the odd mm or so base difference ;} .
I mostly base my infantry 2 on a 20*40mm base with some individuals but then put them on a movement tray 4 wide 2 deep; 3 of these making up a BP standard batallion. This compromise allows me to get them into skirmish dispersion for rules such as Sharp Practice.
(You can also share those trays across armies & periods…)
Others will have their infantry on individual square or 1p size bases then put them on a bespoke tray, possibly held by magnets see https://warbases.co.uk/product-category/movement-trays/1p-trays/ – many other such suppliers are out there.
A quick recommendation – don’t. Initially use thick card to your preferred size and lightly PVA glue the figures. Decorate the bases minimally (a little sand on the PVA as it dries then a quick dab of paint when all set). Later on, you can prize the figures off and remount them to your preferred size when you are comfortable with it.
Starting an army of 200+ figures (any scale) is a significant job.
IMHO, getting your troops on the table soon is more of a priorty than turning up with pristine artwork years later. You can always add the master artwork to the figures and prize horticulture on the bases as a future phase.
I was referring to the Frazer’s varient for the white facings and flag.
@Haskeer , there are two other sources of running legs that come to mind – Perry plastic 95th rifles and Victrix napoleonic British infantry. Again you’ll have to chop the figures in half and glue onto the top half of your chosen Frenchman, milliput and a set of needle files are your freinds.Want to be the first to contact the enemy? Follow the advice of Brigadier Gerard – join the cavalry and become a Hussar! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigadier_Gerard).
Perry’s do some exceedingly good plastic ones (Warlord do a cheaper French Hussar box). You can read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s tales of the Gallant Gascon for free over at project gutenberg.
As I wrote the above tome, I was looking at my French 1814 drummer (made up conventionally) and a running drummer which I had converted into a Swiss grenadier.
I just remembered the original figure was from Elite miniatures, but I found it too small when up against my 28mm Perry/Warlord/Victrix levee en masse. The Warlord head system has the collars moulded to the head, everyone else on the body. Chopping off the smaller head, filing it’s collar down then adding a new (Warlord style, grenadier bearskin) one turns your 25 mm+ figure into 27mm+ one, making it more compatible.
Redoubt Miniatures Napoleonics are also more 25mm than 28mm (yet their AWI/FIW/ACW ranges are OK). I bought a battalion of Portuguese Cazadores blind a few years ago only to find that one out the hard way, swapping out with the spare shako set you get in the Warlord Portuguese box did the trick.
Sheffield accents are not required to use a Baker rifle …..
If I recall, the Warlord metal officier you get with a standard line batallion pack and the original Perry plastic command pack officer are both suitable as is for mixing into a running formation.
As for the drummer, don’t panic 😉
Just reach for the green stuff/milliput.
Look at the intended drummer figures body and compare what is different with one of those running skirmishers – really only the prescence of the apron
Separate the drummer torso from his walking legs to replace with a split pair of running skirmisher legs.
Both the drum and short sword are on belts, imagine your new running drummer has pulled his sword belt forward and pushed the drum one back.
The back of the drummer has a short sword – carefully trim this off (in one piece) place the drum so it starts on the figures hip where the sword used to be rather than his inner thigh. The sword will now go between the drum and the thigh.
Glue the new legs and torso together make up a little apron with the milliput and stick the short sword and drum in their new places.
Chop the sticks off the drummers arms and glue onto the stickholder bump on the drummer’s belt.
The left stickless arm now goes backwards with its hand on the top of the drum pushing it to the rear, the equivalent right arm goes forward in a running motion. If you have access to spares from a box of Victrix French, that right hand could be replaced with a drawn short sword or pistol.
Why are your French running away ?
Is someone fielding a British rifle skirmish unit lead by an Essex boy with a Sheffield accent ?
