Yes, Plains Wars in Africa - the East African plains!
The 1,014 figures is how many figures I've accumulated for my plains herds. Working on them today and realized I have crossed the 1,000 threshold. Yup, that is a LOT of animals. The "and more" is 42 additional figures that will either be used as captive animals for the live animal trade or converted to dead animals - though 4 were sculpted as dead so 38 discounting that. And, hopefully, I've primed one side of all the remaining bases I will need. A fair portion is already based and at least 174 are already painted and a good portion already primed and ready for paint. With a little luck, tomorrow the balance will be primed and ready for paint. We'll see.
Oh, and my last project tonight is actually for the Plains Wars, Old West version - punching up my Longhorn cattle herd to 96 figures plus two more dead (actual longhorns converted to dead) to go with the four dead cows that will be painted as longhorns but just won't have long horns. Just have to glue to the prepared bases and then prime them tomorrow.
Back to those other plains, even with 338 bases (3 per base) worth of figures I'm still looking to add more to the collection if I can just find proper sculpts for East African plains - or better sculpts in some cases like the chimpanzees or the lions (not bad but better would be nice). My greatest hope are for some proper antelope and/or gazelles - I'm using make-dos for my Thompson's and Grant's gazelles and my impalas, same for zebras and wildebeests - but I'd like others like Bongos and the so many unique gazelles, etc. African Cape Buffalo are correct, had commissioned, molded, and cast - including a dead buffalo. Better naturalistic gorillas would be good, too. And more - if someone makes them and they fit, I'll almost certainly add them. Could easily go to 1200 figures, maybe even more.
Not included in the above counts are the critters mixed in with the people for my pulpish East Africa games - which include 9 gorillas suitable for those nasty gray gorillas from the movie Congo, chimps with my multiple versions of Tarzan, Jane, and Boy, etc.
And I'd love to find some nice Orangutans (though they are not from Africa, of course).
Critter crazy perhaps but having lots of fun.