Ciamar a tha sibh - (how are you?)
No Lindsay, ye're nae daft pal ! But ah tell ye this man, if ah wis a poor wee sassanach (an ah mean lowland Scots as weel as Engleesh here) ah wid be fillin ma breechs as weel if ah wis tae face a highlan charge !
Barry was correct to take account of the reputation ( and I resort to the Queen's English now) of the Highland charge. I would say Barry has it summed up admirably - you really do not want to be facing these guys on their home ground in that period. Rumour and reputation asides, once these guys get going, it really is a question of honour and Clan pride - how do you measure this on a wargaming table ? I would suggest that if these guys reach the nicely formed Regimental lines in number (pre socket bayonet fixing -post "46"), your ability to resist would be seriously compromised. How you can achieve that by factors and dice rolls is open to interpretation.
Given that, and you have eloquated most excellently in your British Army Regimental Resumes, that The CAMERONIANS (a Regiment owing its foundation in the Covenanter Period 45 years earlier - and naturally ultra Protestant and very anti Catholic/Highlander), were reputedly the first to stop a Highland Charge by fire and the butt ends of their muskets at Dunkeld Cathedral ruins after Killiecrankie. Your casualty figures in review of the "Cameronians" show the level endured in that engagement, and probably reflect the reality of the engagement , bloody an fierce, nae quarter given.
I have to congratulate you on your research and level of postings. These have been of great benefit personally and obvioulsy the subject of much interesting reading. The Crimean War has been beneficial, even to a narrow minded "one period nit like me" , and also, may I also suggest respectfully to amny others, to the likes of Pappenheimuk, and many others.
Weel done ya son 'o' the Colonies (no disrespect intended !)
ThinRedLine
Faesgar math - (good evening)
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Ours is not to reason why,
ours is but to do and die.
ALFRED, L.T.