Do you prefer your American civil war infantry to have bayonet fixed or not.
This may cause temperatures to rise, so take it easy chaps.
martin :)
No sheathed. Safer there.
No sticky out bits on any figure gets my vote
Bayonets fixed please.
Maybe cold steel showing for the real men, and rather less so for those of poorer quality?
[I hope the hedging of bets here is not too obvious...].
Simon
Possibly a compromise? Since bayonets impeded reloading, if your forces rarely used them then don't represent them on the table but
a) count fixed bayonets in the add-on effects of a charge
or
b) have a few stands of charging figures with bayonets to substitute at the appropriate moment for visual effect.
Forward corporal Jones - but don't panic!
Dave
Quote from: sukhe_bator (Neil) on March 31, 2021, 08:33:47 AM
b) have a few stands of charging figures with bayonets to substitute at the appropriate moment for visual effect.
That's got to be a winner for Martin - more figures required, chaps!
Simon
As far as I know bayonets were only fixed prior to a charge because they were a bloody nuisance in a firefight. I prefer bayonets absent.
Just as well it's not AWI, plug bayonets prevented fire altogether! Offset socket bayonets were still a pain to reload around throughout the C19 with muzzle loading firearms.
Quote from: sukhe_bator (Neil) on April 03, 2021, 04:46:34 PM
Just as well it's not AWI, plug bayonets prevented fire altogether! Offset socket bayonets were still a pain to reload around throughout the C19 with muzzle loading firearms.
Plug bayonets in the AWI? I don't think that's right. As far as I recall plug bayonets went out by the War of the Spanish Succession, 70 years earlier.
Given the poor battlefield performance of f/l muzzle loaders you'd be forgiven for wondering if making it possible to actually fire them was a retrograde step!