Concerns on Black Powder Napoleonic starter

[Dal]

Hello, I really fancy giving black powder (napoleonic) a go and love the idea of the starter set with the British and French armies and rulebook.

However, my interest in the era is pre-Waterloo so primarily Peninsula, Mediterranean theatre, low countries etc. Yet cannot justify the British peninsula starter set as it comes without either rulebook or opfor

Are the heads easily changed?
French in greatcoat in hot climes?
Do warlord swap out sprues in starter sets if you ask? Ie Waterloo brits for peninsular bits?
Anyone else had similar concerns then were able to work around?

Many thanks

[invisible officer]

The change to Belgic shako started in Spain so for 1813/14 you can use it in many units. The Light Inf. kept the stovepipe anyway.
You might even mix, in many units only replacements from home had the new.

Officers had to buy them and so a new one was a Belgic type one, even if the men still wore the old. Like the other red of the officers tunic nobody had a Problem with that.

Many French in Spain fought in coat, the uniform often being so ragged that it was needed to cover the men.
Not to forget that nights can be very cold there.

[Dal]

So French possible, British not unless I buy extra units for the stovepipe.

Seems like a bad buy as my interest is pre-1813/14

Thanks for the reply!

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