Ayton 2020 - Sunday 18th Century Game

[Essex Boy]

Morals, or high ground?

[Buff Orpington]

The whole point of holding the high ground is to be able to make "I can see your house from here" sound like a threat.

[Essex Boy]

A good point, well made.

[Paul]

The whole point of holding the high ground is to be able to make "I can see your house from here" sound like a threat.

Although if you can see us, we can see you...and we're in hard cover.

[Essex Boy]

Another good point, well made.

You guys are on fire.

[levied troop]

Well Paul is, he’s in the burning house.

[Peeler]

I was looking forward to a group lynching! And possibly even a burning! Well, at least a stoning.

Let's just have all three, can't beat a nice bit of variation.

[Jeremy]

I’ve found if you try hard enough, you can beat anything.

[Buff Orpington]

Heading vaguely back towards the topic, 6 weeks to go and everything is at the least primed*.
Perry's brigade is at full strength but I have a small dilemma regarding Stallard's brigade. At present it has two full battalions and a smaller converged battalion of grenadiers.
Do I:
Leave it like that, they are a small but very tough unit.
Add some Light Bob's in line to fill the gap?
Drop the grenadiers and use Hessians?
*Unless I decide to paint the Hessians.

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

What are the other two full battalions and which facing colour have you done them (not that it matters that much for Ayton, as it is an imagi-nation type thing, but in case you wanted to use them for AWI proper afterwards)? You could make the formation the Composite Brigade of Foot Guards (dark blue facings), which would legitimately allow you to add a small Light Bobs unit as well, since the Guards retained their (very large) flank companies as part of the brigade structure.

German troops tended to be kept within their own brigade structure, except for the von Bose regiment in the South, which was the only German line infantry unit in Cornwallis's army and thus had to serve alongside a non-German unit (the 71st from memory).