What period would you like to see given the RFCM treatment?

[Sean Clark]

A purely hypothetical exercise., just for fun. Please don't bombard Martin with your desire to see a Vikings v Eskimos range of figures and set of rules.

Two answers from me!

US-Mexican War
War of 1812.

Both small contained conflicts with rag tag elements on both sides. Both colourful too. There is a set of amendments for Washingtons Army for the War of 1812  in the relevant section of this forum. They look very interesting.

[Colonel Kilgore]

Boxer Rebellion.

I know very little about it other than the Charlton Heston film, and appreciate that the Square Bashing Rules already broadly cover the period. Many of the Western troops are probably do-able from existing ranges (perhaps with some head swaps) but it would require some Chinese.

It would be colourful, while the extensive use of embassy compounds for defence could make for a novel and "square grid-friendly" game.

[Stéphane]

Russian colonial in central Asia against turkmen/Ozbek

OR/AND

Less dreaming and more realistic :
1877-78 Russo-Turkish war maybe more easy to make because, the turks wear the same uniform than the Egyptians from the Soudan range and the russian wearing something like the WWI uniform. So, not a lot references to sculpt and the expertise is know.

[peterctid]

Tudor and 30YW

Not a huge expansion on current figures.

[Wardy64]

Indian Mutiny for me 

Wardy

[Sean Clark]

Indian Mutiny is right up there for me too actually!

[Rittervonbek]

How about "Space 1888" minor imaginations from The Soldier's Companion"? Graustark, Ruritania, Transbalknia. Or the Malagassy Empire? Duchy of Grand Fenwick?

[Duncan]

Medieval and Tudor. I would say ancient but I know there is a lot of stuff for that already. I would like to  see some prehistoric, stone age / cave men / Neanderthals including mega beasts!

[shedman]

The Mexican Revolution - a lot of it it is there with the Wild West range. It. However it would be nice to see  Federales in kepis & solar helmets and US forces in Smokey Bear hats

[martin goddard]

The great thing about wargaming is the free spirit. Gamers can do whatever they wish and that is great. Most of the PP ranges are the result of group  thinking about what would be fun. It has also to be popular/profit making.
I often think about doing say three packs for a period, but know it is safer not to open the pandora's box.
PP often makes the same ranges as other companies because we can do it more thoroughly.  Consequently other companies follow PP as they see a success and want to be part of that (eg AK47)
The pirate range ships were made to 1/450th to make it obvious if another company followed along.
The PP Vietnam has  been followed by other companies but that is the way of the hobby.

There are several ideas in the think box at the moment but they will have to wait for some time due too more pressing short term needs.  If a range can be helped by the production of a few head packs then that is much easier to achieve!!

Some ranges which have not made it into the think box= Falklands(not enough battles/desirable opponents), Franco Prussian(big range needed), Crimea(does not seem popular at UK shows), napoleonic (too big), Boer (interesting but minority interest), boxer (great fun but low interest), Taiping (same),Maori(armies too small), Korea(lack of attached film and popular fiction), Mongols(done by others), SYW (lots of packs needed), French Indian (forces very small),. All great but there has not been the time yet. Anyway theses might be fun for discussion.

Having said that, the SCW is our next direction. SCW is very specialist and we will need to work very hard to popularise it I feel. this undermines all of my concerns above!!


martin

[Sean Clark]

Martin,

Stick to your convictions, your customers have been pretty happy so far! You watch, once the SCW rules are out there with some pushing, every manufacturer will be jumping on the bandwagon. I for one can't wait!

Sean

[martin goddard]

Well that is two of us so far!

[sjwalker51]

So, ideally a reasonably self-contained subject, which could be given the PP treatment with a supporting rule set, with enough mid-sized battles to make it easy to get started but still sell enough packs to make it worthwhile, and which is not so well covered by other manufacturers in 15mm scale, which also has commercial potential and, presumably, is something that Martin might actually want to play as well...

My first choice would be the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, closely followed by the 1685-1692 Rebellion and Glorious Revolution of Monmouth and William against James II.

I think Boxer Rebellion could be more successful than you think, especially given a growing interest in colonial gaming following the release of other rule sets - and you could expect to sell plenty of packs of Boxers. I've always advocated that a Zulu War range done the PP way would be popular, given that existing ranges are quite dated and incomplete, but Blue Moon may beat you to it.

Both the Mexican-American war and the Mexican Revolution (Viva Vila!) are appealing. Although the latter is quite well covered in 20mm, it would lend itself well to Square Bashing mechanisms. There's no good 15mm range for the Maximilian Adventure in Mexico either.

Hope that gives some food for thought.

[Leman (Andy)]

I think TSS may disagree with you on the Mexican Adventure.

[shedman]

I think TSS may disagree with you on the Mexican Adventure.

The old Freikorps Mexican Adventure range is is good- I have 100's of them

However the last unit I added to the French/imperialist force was the Sudanese Battalion using PP's Egyptian infantry from the Colonial range - much nicer than TSS