Peter Dennis' take on Little Wars

I recently purchased Peter Dennis' latest Paperboys Book, which is a reprint of H.G.Wells' Little Wars, the great-great-granddaddy of wargaming rules (not counting dreary Prussian Kriegsspiel stuff).  

The rules are quite light and fun, and focussed on knocking down toy soldiers with a toy cannon.  And in addition to the rules, which were written with the intention of playing with toy soldiers such as those made by W. Britain.  This being a Peter Dennis book, the bulk of the book consists of paper soldiers to cut out and assemble.

Unlike the soldiers in the previous Paperboys books, these paper soldiers are each individually based, and are much larger.  They are nominally 54 mm, but as I print them out on 8 1/2 x 11" sheets rather than A4, I have photoreduced them to 92%, so I guess these are 50 mm soldiers.

There are two armies, identified as "Red" and "Blue", but of course the Red Army is British, and Blue Army is French, both in presented in the uniforms of the late 19th Century.

Blue:

Red:

There are multiple troop types, including;

Red Grenadier Guards

Blue Regular Infantry

 Red Highlanders

 Red Indian Infantry

 Red Scots Guards

 Blue Zouaves

 Blue Lancers

 Blue Turcos

 Blue Sailors

 Blue Light Cavalry

 "Red" Hussars (despite the coat colours...)

 Red Dragoons

There are many other troop types that I haven't built yet.  In addition, Peter Dennis sells German-inspired troops as a download on his website, as well as paper buildings.  

Little Wars includes a sheet of civilians:

There is also a cannon and even a Martian tripod (inspired by another of H. G. Wells' works, the War of the Worlds).  I haven't yet made them, as they are quite tricky to build.  I've yet to decide if they are worth the bother!