Warlord Reinforce The Napoleonic British With Portuguese Infantry
July 31, 2015 by brennon
Warlord Games have reinforced the British with some new plastic Napoleonic Portuguese Infantry. If you're looking for additional models to use in Black Powder then these might give you a break from all the red and white...
The Portuguese were fairly untested and untrained as soldiers until they fell under the command of one Sir Lt.General William Beresford. He moulded them into an effective and brave fighting force that was drilled under British rules and traditions.
They were known to most as the 'fighting cocks' although they also got the somewhat more unceremonious name 'pork and beans' from the regular British soldiers. All of it was meant in good jest though it seems and they were well respected among the army.
Will you be getting any of these?
"They were known to most as the 'fighting cocks' although they also got the somewhat more unceremonious name 'pork and beans' from the regular British soldiers..."
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These are nice looking miniatures, I wonder if Warlord are going to re box there other figures to 24 plastic miniatures per box
I bought Pike & Shotte and Black Powder a few days ago. Already painting some Pikeman for good ol Rupert. Guess a man of man age, with back ache and strains to silver hair has to grow up some day.
I do welcome any plastic release 😎
Why they reboxing all 36 figure sets to 24 is completely beyond me though.
‘Listening’ to gamers I suppose? I hope the Perrys won’t follow this trend..
To make more money?
36 figures would produce a unit of ‘large’ size according to the rules set where 24 figures would give you a standard size ‘unit’. Maybe the thinking is these troops were never fielded in large units therefore the figure count is reduced? In the rule sets for Pike and shot and Black powder the intention is to display a ‘taste’ for the armies of the period and actual figure count isn’t so important as they are representative only rather than counted by model. Thus one box will give you 1 unit strength at standard size.
The rules for Black Powder do sort of make it clear that what they write in the book are guidelines, so basically the ‘standard sise’ is what you make it and go from there. I always like having a few more minis, then again almost all of my Napoleonics are Perry…although I will happily take plastic Portuguese for the Peninsular war lists; now we just need Cacadores in plastic.