Myth and legend?

[Duncan]

Is there any interest in this as in having a handful of figures that could somehow be worked into rules for each range to represent myth's of the time? I am thinking of Arthur, Norse sagas, St George and the like. A plethora of characters and creatures from every time and place. Even modern conflicts have these, lost soldiers being shown back to their own lines by a colleague who on further information turned out was killed a year ago etc. It could make for an interesting twist or scenario or two not to mention some nice models?

[emphatz]

Interesting, I would like certain myths or movie culture picked and the weird and wonderful creatures that make up the myth/movie sculpted, for example, the epic of Gilgamesh, Greek Argonauts, pride and prejudice and Zombies, BattleRoyal (movie), Vampires Vs Werewolves (Underworld movie)....etc I think you guys get the drift, what do you guys think? any takers?

[martin goddard]

Yes, good point. It can relate to samurai etc too.
The problem is that gamers will write off a range as fantasy if any non historical figures are included.

martin

[Colonel Kilgore]

Is that why the Vikings with the horned helmets never appeared?

Valkyries, anyone?

[peterctid]

*hopes for a range of hoplites and skeleton warriors*

[Stéphane]

*hopes for a range of hoplites and skeleton warriors*

Yes, I agree !
True old hoplites with bronze cuirass and not the linen armor.
May be a cyclop too

[Sean Clark]

I've always thought a zombie game could be done using AK47 with swarms of undead appearing randomly across the table, all looking for JuJu juice.

[emphatz]

If your going to do Zombies (fast ones) then your going to need the classic survivor types right?? do it yes yes.....

[emphatz]

Well it looks like there is some interest in the fantasy side of things..... I'm happy about that, be it mythology or whatever

[Wardy64]

What about Robin Hood?

Wardy

[Andoreth]

The opening contribution to this thread was suggesting a "handful" of packs to provide scope for one off games. Given our other requests and Martin's workload I think that should be the limit of Peter Pig involvement, if there is any involvement at all.

In this context I should like to propose a Zombie range linked to all the other PP ranges, so it would include such things as draugar for the Vikings, undead Samurai, revenant ACW figures and Voodoo-raised zombies for AK47. Of course such figures need not stay in their own "historical" period; undead Vikings could haunt a Yorkshire barrow during the English Civil War and Confederates could come to the aid of Americans in WW2.       

[Duncan]

If there is any concerns about odd packs of mythological or the like tainting a range into becoming fantasy then that is easily taken care of by not putting them in the range proper. They could be sold as a totally separate range  of there own and then maybe a book or pamphlet could be produced on how to include the figures into the historic ranges.

Does that sound like a runner?

[emphatz]

I should like to propose a Zombie range linked to all the other PP ranges

Great Idea, Zombies go with everything pretty much........