One of my ancient passion was the period of the Thirty Years War. I did like the huge mass of troops in tercios and brigades, with colorfull uniforms. Obviously, one of my "favourite" battle is the Battle of Luetzen in 1632, where two giants of the period, King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and Albrecht von Wallenstein faced in a bloody battle where the King lost his life but left an endless memory of his bravery.
This said, one of the top units fighting in that epic battle war the Yellow Brigade, based on a single Regiment, the Yellow Regiment with the elite troops of the King of Sweden.
I tried to recreate, firstly, the front "squadron" of this Brigade, done by a unit 6 ranks deep and 36 files wide. So the problem with papersoldiers at 1:1 ratio is how to make the pose of the pikes, in a way it is always usuable on bpardgames (i.e. both when at rest and when under attack).
My solution was as follows:
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with the second rank that "enters and fills up" the gaps in between the first rank..
I was wondering if it could be of any use another pose:
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