Poll: Do you like the 5 figure/4 horse cavalry sprue design?

To be honest, no, every rider needs a mount. I don't do a lot of conversions and prefer to paint up one box as a single wargame unit.

If the choice is 4 horses 4 riders, or more variety with 4 horses 5 riders.... I think I will go for the latter rather then the former

I prefer to have the same number of horses as riders. I am all in favour of four different horses. The old Hat sets with only two horse poses are just too simplistic. Also, officers normally had different saddlery to the troopers. To get a better representation maybe Hat should consider four sprues to a box, three standard four horse four troopers and a fourth with the special figures like Officers, Musicians, NCO and Standard Bearers. I hate having a bow legged amputee running across the battlefield.

Best regards,

Malcolm

Firstly, I would say that the mini sprue with command figures is an excellent idea if you wanted to do that.

Secondly if HaT wants to give us 15 mounted figures at the same price as a 12 mounted figure set I'm all for it. If they want to give us 20 or 50 or 100 mounted figures at the same price even better.

But I suppose there are good reasons why standardisation works for manufacturers so, if future HaT cavalry sets are going to be standard 12 mounted figure sets then I prefer to have the extra officer figure.

Here's the logic:

A standard 12 mounted figure set contains 12 enlisted men with no officers.

It could possibly contain 9 enlisted men and 3 officers. But it's one or the other, you can't have both options in the same set.

If each sprue has an extra officer figure then:

You can still have 12 enlisted men with no officers if you want.

or you can have 9 enlisted men and 3 officers.

or you can have 10 enlisted men and 2 officers.

Or you can have 11 enlisted men and 1 officer.

Here's the thing, You get to choose! You get all of those options in the same set. And if you have some spare horses hanging around or you buy a bag from Eagle Games you can use the left over figures.

I assume that the reason for the 5th figure idea is that HaT can fit an extra figure on the standard sprue but they can't fit an extra horse.

Which means the extra figure is an optional extra, like the optional heads or spare arms with optional weapons found in some HaT sets.

I like extras. And I don't recall anyone complaining that they don't like heads without bodies or weapons without figures so I don't really understand the resistence to getting an extra figure.

12 mounted figures is my minimum acceptable requirement for a cavalry set. If 1 of those figures is an officer that's excellent. i'm voting for the extra figure.

I like the sprew you show above, but ...

* Would like one arm shooting pistol
* Would like one arm shooting Rifle (actually shooting while riding; not just holding)
* Would like one arm with Lance for charging (Lance straight out)
* Would like longer pegs for arms to fit over so they can rotate and should fit snug (Customer can cut and glue or leave longer and heat for mushroom end for a spinning arm like Britains Swoppets / Arms Right)
* Would rather have blanket rolls and bandoliers cast onto horse (I love Conversions but not a fan of those)

Thank you for asking - GC

I would like the idea of a fifth rider