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E19 has two sets: Prussian Infantry Marching and in Action.

For E20 and beyond we have 4 sets: 7YW Prussian Infantry Marching, Action and Command, and the Bavarian Infantry Command set. All already finished and just waiting for release.

Up next after that are the Napoleonic Austrians where we're finalizing the make up of the set, deciding how many shakos, helmets and bearskins to have. These are the only set past stage 5 in the 1/32 range for now.

Meanwhile, we're taking a long look at the posted Greek Hoplites, Balearic slingers and others with an eye to either re-doing them or not at all. The only ancient era we have right now is the Punic War so the only possible usage we have for the Greek Hoplites would be inclusion in Xanthippus's army. Another Carthaginian set being sculpted right now is the Sacred Band, which might be a little early for our Punic Wars but could be an opponent for the Greek hoplites in Syracuse.

Next up would be any of the Napoleonic masters already finished:
Pre-Bardin French marching and command
Post-Bardin French marching and command
Spanish (all sets)
These sets are all at stage 5 already and therefore could be put into tooling queue immediately.

Or we could go with the Byzantines masters, which are all already finished, but lack opponents.

And we haven't forgotten the requests for Napoleonic cavalry and artillery.

@All, just heard back from the production crew. Looks like they can only fit on 9 types of headwear instead of the 18 we had planned. Part of that is sprue space and part of that is injection molds don't like a lot of little objects. Little spaces means increased pressure and that can lead to flash, etc.

So that means we have choose between shakoes(S), helmets(H) and bearskins(B). I'm leaning towards 6S - 2H - 1B for the reason that Italeri already makes helmeted Austrians and Grenadiers are in the minority. Keep in mind that this set was supposed to be one set of Austrian Infantry and that any extra headwear should just be considered extra. The idea to allow many choices was a good one, but the production guys shot it down.

Still, that means a box of 3 sprues would have 9 extra hats (6H and 3B), and anyone buying two boxes (eg. a box of marching and one of action) would have 12H and 6B extra.

Another idea is to have that combination for the marching set, and something different for the action set like 6H - 2S - 1B, so someone buying 2 sets (1 marching and 1 action) would end up with a total of 24S - 24H - 6B or 54 hats to fit 36 heads. But that's assuming people would buy equal quantities of each set. That could end up pretty messy.

A 3rd idea would be 3S - 3H - 3B (equal numbers)...

So, what do you guys think, again keeping in mind that it's a set of Austrian infantry with 9 extra hats per box.