Picking up on another thread [https://rulesforcommonman.uk/index.php?topic=5543.msg58168;topicseen#msg58168] relating to Martin's recent podcast experience (well worth listening to, even if installing the iTunes app can be a faff for Windows users) - which 8 packs of figures would you take with you if you were stranded on a desert island?
I'd suggest the following assumptions:
- you have your paints and modelling paraphernalia with you too
- your favourite rules have also usefully washed up on the shore
- there is sufficient material on your island from which to make scenery to play on
You may wish to spend your time in exile principally painting or gaming, but which Peter Pig packs would you have taken with you in your hand luggage?
Simon
Nice idea Simon.
Here is mine.
1. ACW surgeons pack. I cannot find a use for them in a game and so I must prove them super useful by making them into a vignette piece to drop into anyone's ACW game. "can I put this on your game so that I can show its usefulness".
2.A pack of mounted buglers so that I can get to paint the cord detail and other little badges etc.
3. A pack of foot samurai that will use a lot of time to paint each scale.
4. An ACW limber in full gallop with a 12pdr gun because it is such a nice object. Reminds me of the Britains one.
5. A pack of Generals so that I could enhance the base with all sorts of animals and debris.
6. Don't know what to pick for 6?
7. A pack of dead Vikings. Chance to do a bit of macabre good.
8. A WW1 German gun with crew interacting/touching the gun. I like to model crew actually working the piece rather than standing in the four corners. I am wary of crews in which some men are doing shooty things and some doig loading things. Chaotic and dangerous.
martin :)
I refuse to take only 8 packs there, after a whole life amassing a Smaug-ish treasure pile of lead!
(https://i.postimg.cc/mg0CqQ3Y/armari.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/G4x4TT5t)
Better gloriously sinking with the ship than shamefully abandoning my crew...
Lluís
The Scenario booklet, The River of Death (available from Wargames Vault), features 12 scenarios (non-rule specific) for the battle of Chickamauga. The final scenario entitled Saving the Hospitals would be an ideal game in which to feature hospital tents, Union surgeons at work, ambulances, stretcher bearers, and various wounded sitting and lying about.
Ken, the Yarkshire Gamer has a similar poser - if marooned on a desert island which period / collection would you like to have with you?
Bit more generous than 8 packs........☺
Neil
This way madness lies. Any self-respecting wargamer would soon want to try another period, different rules, new figures. Given either of the above parameters would lead to pacing like a caged tiger >:( :o
Preferably a period with a fleet of model boats you could glue together to make a raft with!
Neil
Quote from: sukhe_bator (Neil) on June 16, 2023, 09:55:34 PM
Preferably a period with a fleet of model boats you could glue together to make a raft with!
Neil
Would these be lead or resin boats, Neil? ;D
Simon
Lead, of course! They float better, don 't they?
John (aka Noah)
All depends on displacement don't it... Its all greek to me!
Neil
And there's me thinking it was all geek to us.