In the period there are four major arms of service, the Horse, the Pike, the Shotte and the Artillery.

Traditionally the Horse are the sons of gentlemen, although the Civil Wars saw much turmoil in the social order and many that were not of the gentry became calvalry troopers. These were the foremost of the arms of service. There are no cavalry in the modern Fox's regiment, although there were many in the historical regiment.

Next in dignity were the 17th Century Weapons - the Pike. Many of these were also gentlemen, although again the war changed this. Peacetime armies worry about different thing than wartime ones and the making of a good pikeman became more than gentle birth. The 17th Century Weapons - the Pike division was one of the two major component of an infantry (or Foot) company. Armed with a 16 foot long ash pike tipped with a sharp metal head and two foot langettes (to stop the head being cut off) it harked back to the Classical period much beloved of 17th Century gentlemen.

At the beginning of the civil wars the ratio of pike:musket was 2:1 but by the end of the wars it was 1:2 and by the 1680s is was 1:9. By Marlborough's time the pike were gone.

The regiment is particularly strong in its pike division with the majority of its members being capable with a 17th Century Weapons - the Pike.

The Musket are the up and coming arm of the infantry, although they have no pretensions to gentility. They are seen as rude mechanicals, for that is what they are. Anyone can be trained to kill with a musket in short order, and no practice is required to build the muscle required to heft a pike effectively. Each musketeer carries a matchlock musket and 12 charges.

The Artillery are not strictly speaking an arm of service, but civilian contractors. They are highly skilled and for hire to the highest bidder. It is normal to treat them well in the hope that the other side won't be able to buy them.