Ideas for favorite unique figure poses

In reorganizing many of my various units some things this hobby come into focus.  My various units’ figures come a variety of different sets, made by several different manufacturers , each with their own style and often similar types of figures in their sets.  

Take Hat for instance;  many of their type of troop sets are fairly standardized to either;

1.  For a unit troop type they produce separate action, command and marching sets, with 6 different poses in the command and action Sets, and 2 or 3 in the marching sets, 18 figures total in each set.  The Bavarians, Prussians & Russians sets follow this pattern.  The upcoming Austrian sets will follow this pattern.

2. For a unit type they produce 1 combined action & marching set with 6 poses (either 1 or 2 marching), and then a command set of 6 poses, but that also includes figures for a similar, but slightly different type of troops.  Sets like this include the French light infantry chassuers, voltiguers and Carabiniers sets, and the Wurttemberg line and grenadier sets.   

I like this approach better than that of many other manufacturers that either include too many drummers or officers or flag figures, or even worse; a bunch of odd, not very useful figures, like figures being shot, oddly contorted charging figures, or those using their musket as a club. 

While Hat’s approach of focusing on the most useful poses, their sets are very efficient.  However, a downside of This approach is that many sets contain very similar poses, which can get a little boring when putting together a few hundred battalions.  Don’t get me wrong; I wouldn’t trade this efficiency for anything, but it makes me apprciciate those unique poses which fit into my units where the figure are available in sufficient numbers to do so.  Here are a couple of my favorite fairly rare/unique figure poses that I find useful.

The first is actually made by Hat; from the Carabiniers set, I find this figure helpful in braking the monotony of fire lines with stand fire in front and reload behind;

The next figure is from Armies in Plastic’s French infantry set, and while I typically try to avoid kneeling figures, this pose is useful as either a skirmish, front rank of a square, or a fire line.

Another figure is from Accurate’s excellent AWI British, which is very useful in rear ranks of advancing battalions (particularly when you run out of marching figures);

I will add more useful uniques later.  Cheers!