Warlord French Chasseurs a Cheval out soon

[joroas]

The box contains 12 plastic cavalry models, plus metal parts to make the command models.

Our superbly detailed Chasseurs à Cheval are provided with covered and uncovered shakos as well as the colpacks favoured by the elite companies.

Although requested not to wear the sabretache beyond 1808 many Chasseurs would keep this item well beyond this decree and thus we’ve included it on our models. For those of you wishing to follow regulations over reality simply snip the sabretache off. Similarly we’ve included an arm carrying an eagle as although they wouldn’t have carried this into battle (in fact, Napoleon forbade them to do so after so many were lost in battle!), we know that many wargamers like to have one in their regiments.

[Anna Elizabeth]

I need 2 boxes. Yay, finally some plastic Chasseur.

[Romark]

I know these will be popular with fans of the Napoleonic period but can't help thinking the poses look a little "wooden",compared with other plastic cavalry minis out there,just my opinion of course. 

[Anna Elizabeth]

I know these will be popular with fans of the Napoleonic period but can't help thinking the poses look a little "wooden",compared with other plastic cavalry minis out there,just my opinion of course. 

In a word, yes. They aren't lively like my plastic Perry Cuirassier, Dragoons, and Hussars, but at this price point, they are very welcome.

[Warboss Nick]

They will have to and will do. The warlord set makes it improbable that the Perrys will make one, too. The set looks servicable enough, and I'm optimistic arms can be refitted, that's if the set doesn't include a variation of seperate arms.

The warlord Website claims that lancers are also in the way...

[joroas]

... and their Salute picture seems to show Imperial Guard too.

[Warboss Nick]

Tool another look at the full description on the warlord website. Arms and heads are seperate, so there's hope for a little variety and the possibility to combine with arms from the Perry cavalry sets.

[Anna Elizabeth]

Nice. Most of my French are plastic, I couldn't afford Napoleonics without the plastic sets.

[Arthur]

The warlord set makes it improbable that the Perrys will make one, too.

I wouldn't be so sure. While I'm not privy to Alan Perry's intentions, I wouldn't necessarily rule out a Perry plastic chasseurs set at some point in the not so near future. First, because nothing will ever stop the twins from doing what they feel like doing, and second because they could do a multi-uniform set with torsos in both Bardin habits-vestes and earlier Kinski coats, just like their upcoming British light dragoons box.
  

[Kobiyashi1]

My greatest problem are the horses. They look to much like Warhammer Fantasy.

But.....Chasseurs 

I´m glad, i need the Perry Dragoons at first.

[janner]

I was under the impression that they are dressed in 1812 jackets, so why the discussion about sabretaches by Warlord - am I mistaken about their jackets?

Personally, I've no issue with people mixing their Frenchies, I just wondered if I'd missed a trick

[Arthur]

I was under the impression that they are dressed in 1812 jackets, so why the discussion about sabretaches by Warlord - am I mistaken about their jackets?

You're not. The figures are wearing the 1812 Bardin habit-veste which began to be issued in 1813. A mix of Bardin habits-vestes and earlier Kinski coats would have been common during the 1813 and early 1814 campaigns in Germany and France : the Bardin uniform did not become universal until the restoration and the final campaign of 1815.

[janner]

Thanks Arthur. I'd have gone for the Kinsky jacket if I'd been making the decision. I understand as there were still quite a few knocking around in them in 1815 and they would have covered many of the major campaigns, such as Wagram, the invasion of Russia, and the Peninsula War.