Eighteenth century amphibious warfare, of a sort…

 A fascinating blog post this morning on the first German submarine-

http://warsoflouisxiv.blogspot.com/2023/11/steinhude-pike.html

Led me to find this fascinating example of eighteenth century invention-

This crying out to be modelled and used on the Wargames table, even as a vignette. Others may see it as the change to raise a fascinating light infantry unit. 54mm, 28mm or even 10/6 mm it would look great…