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I suspect that some re-tooling may be the reason that the lovely Set 174 did not make the cut with the recent 15. I do hope that it does not delay them too long as they look superb.
Personally, I do not mind about the white bag being on the right hand side. I have seen it depicted as such (e.g in the colour plates included in the book 'Waterloo' by Lachouque), or not present at all—including on the cover art of Set 174! We all know how non-uniform Napoleonic soldier's uniforms were, especially after a few days of campaigning and the 1813–15 Prussians were an especially polyglot lot.
I just happened to be sorting some late Prussians for painting in the past week and agree whole-heartedly with Donald. Once released, Strelets set 174 will add to nicely to the existing line infantry by Hat and Waterloo 1815 (which blend together well) and the excellent Revell figures—which stand up to the others bit of thickening/boosting of the base.
The Hat cavalry are okay and all look really good painted—even the dragoons and uhlans, though they look particularly ordinary in raw plastic.
It would be nice to see some expanded variety of Landwehr cavalry, perhaps some more/improved dragoons and uhlans (possibly hussars), the guns could be 'spruced up' and, as Endeavour says, some limbers and teams would round it all out nicely.
Can the Zvezda Russian dragoons not stand in for Prussian cuirassier?
Yes except Zvezda have only ever made 2 mini set of the Russian Dragoons 3x troopers and 3x command at £4.50 per box or £1.50 per figure, Waterloo 1815 did make Prussian Cuirassiers in metal £23.60 for 6 figures or £3.93 per figure.
I think the best bet would be to ask Strelets to release their Russian Dragoons from the Borodino big box separately.