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Some insightful comments and useful information. I cannot accept Chandler's comment unsupported by a primary source reference, when the other references point the other way. I am entirely comfortable with the idea of militia and veterans in fortresses etc having access to rooms full of pikes and matchlocks. What I see no credible evidence for is their use in a WoSS battle, which is rather the point. These weapons may well have existed somewhere in 1708, but that's not the point.
Rather than try to justify the production of these sets, which, to be fair, no one here has attempted, look at it the other way; if Strelets had just made fusiliers and grenadiers for their French infantry, everyone would have been fine with that; you wouldn't have a chorus of people insisting that no French WoSS army could be considered accurate without pikemen and musketeers!
I'll do what I can with these musketeer and pikemen sets, but not in great numbers, because the conversions, where possible, will be a bother and a significant proportion of them will need to be discarded, which is a pity because they are well crafted minis.
Let us hope that this aberration has run its course. There are two excellent cavalry sets to look forward to and I do hope much more WoSS to follow them. Again, I second Minuteman and others on the absolute necessity of French Line Cavalry.
More Fusiliers (with drummers!) would be awfully helpful too!
The figures are again wonderful sculpted, but I am absolutly disapointed that there are only 2 marching poses of regulars in the set - and unfortunatly 2 with such quite different poses that there can´t combine to a marching column. And the combination with former french marching figures doesn´t fit too, because theirs rilfes/musquets and bags are too different.
I appreciate, yes I enjoy very much Strelets productions, but I can´t understand, what was theirs thinking to produce this set where the marching poses are so marginal - and again the NCOs so over-represented.
The poses of the english were still very well choosen, but the french range turned mad in a wild mixture of different uniforms, arms and poses - and a flood of non-useful NCOs poses with a rarity of drummers.
I hope that Strelets will reflect more its production, set-titles and set-illustrations in the future. Otherwise many buyers will been disapointed that the content of a box aren´t similar to front-image and title - a mistake that happened also with the headgears of the prussian ulans.