Lord Brechin’s Regiment of Horse

Inspired by last summer's holiday to Scotland, and in particular the imagery on display at the West Highland Museum, Fort William, may I present Lord Brechin's Regiment of Horse.I realised that my Scots fielded lancers and harquebusiers, but there was no pistoller/Moss trooper type unit (lightly armoured with buff coats and armed with pistols). So here they are: oodles of headswaps for Scots blew bonnets, and a little bit of filing to remove chest and back armour.George Maule, Lord Brechin, spent most of the Wars abroad, only returning to Scotland when he was in was commissioned as a colonel of horse, and ordered to raise a regiment of horse in Forfarshire, the Mearns and Aberdeenshire on the 28th February1649. His goal was 480 men, by the end of July he had managed to raise just 160. Early in August the Estates ordered the levying of more men (exact figures are difficult to establish (390 more men were to be raised but this total figure was split between Brechin and the Master of…