The discussion about the beret made me think of French Resistance member Janine Boitard – played in The Longest Day by producer Darryl F. Zanuck’s girfriend Irina Demick – even though she doesn’t wear a beret in The Longest Day (though she does carry a rifle). I think there’s a young female French Resistance member in the film Is Paris Burning who does wear one. Anyway, here’s an idea to consider: should HBG at some point produce a specialty set of resistance / partisan-type figures, possibly even one that would contain a few female figures? I think for example there were quite a few women among the Russian partisans – and indeed in the Red Army too, sometimes serving in roles fairly close to the front. These figures could be applied to things like behind-the-lines operations in occupied countries, if players use house rules for that sort of activity.
I suppose the main problem would be that, in order for the colours to match those of the main national sets, the resistance / partisan infantry units for the different countries (distinguished by their uniforms and headgear) would each have to have their own sculpt molds, rather than all being in a single multi-national mold. Then again, perhaps this kind of specialty unit would only really apply to France and Russia, which would mean only two sculpt molds (one blue and one maroon/purple).
