Standard positions
Just wondering where the favoured positions for the two standard bearers are in the line. Most of my units are approx 30 figures and I was putting them in the front rank in the middle of the line. Looking at ( Giles great AWI site ) I think they are in the rear rank, I have to say they do look better in the rear.

Historically, they stood in front of the front rank on parade and when forming up, or advancing; they were moved to the rear when contact with the enemy was imminent, to protect them and provide a rallying point should things go belly up. King's/Colonel's/National Colour to the right (as you look from behind the unit towards the enemy), Regimental Colour to the left.

standards
Thanks Ronan, I will adopt !! Just another question, do you have any info on the dress of Fergusons Rifles at the Saratoga campaign ?

Did you mean Fraser's Company of Select Marksmen (which was the British rifle contingent at Saratoga), or Ferguson's Rifle Corps under Howe in the Philadelphia campaign? FRASER'S - According to a watercolour by a British officer showing a group of Burgoyne's men in front of Fort Ticonderoga, the Select Marksmen may have worn a small black leather cap and a cut-down uniform (no button-hole lace) with Indian leggings; the men came from all the regiments in Canada - except possibly the 24th - so they would have had a mix of facings. If you have access to Osprey MAA 285 (King George's Army (1) Infantry), Plate G1 shows a Marksmen from the 21st Foot; other than the white small clothes, there is an air of the F&IWar about them. FERGUSON'S - Ferguson's Corps in 1777 probably wore green roundabout-type jackets and one-piece gaiter-trousers, with black "slouch"-style hats (this is based on clothing that Ferguson brought to America with him). A lot of the men came from two regiments with yellow facings that were drafted and sent back to England in 1776 (one was the 15th, I forget the other) - probably light company men, so you could "mix-and-match" some red roundabouts as well. (NB: Don't confuse these guys with the Loyalist unit he led at King's Mountain - completely different folk and all musket-armed as far as is known.) In both cases, it seems that not all of the men were armed with rifles, due either to shortages, or the view that riflemen needed "bayonet" support because of the longer loading time. My guess would be that the ratio was anything from 1:1 to 1:3, but I've no firm numbers. It seems likely that all of Ferguson's riflemen used his own design, but there was another more conventional British design sometimes called the Tower model; some of Fraser's Marksmen were given rifles captured from Morgan's men during the American attack on Quebec in 1775/6, and they may also have had a few of the Tower models.

thanks Ronan, yes I was thinking of Frasers men, but thanks for the info on both.

I always put the standards in the second rank because (a) I like having a dedicated command stand and I think the officer and drummer look best in the front and (b) the standards then don't intefere with the figures placed behind them. Also, I instinctively feel that carrying standards in the front rank is a bit risky - it's like all those Don Troiani ACW paintings of men fighting over colours some way in front of the line; if you don't want to risk losing your colours, then don't have them waving at the enemy at the very front of your line!