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Miniatures Adventure => VSF Adventures => Topic started by: 3 fingers on April 24, 2014, 12:09:52 PM
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I was toying with a pyran dragoon imperial guard army.just to mess around with at home
But whilst googling I came across references for flintlocks on barsoom and sharpe in space.
So I am considering doing something similar ,with the english army with Martian helpers fighting another country over mineral? Rights/terrority and a seperate martian species savage warlike and upset about the foreign invaders.
I'm going to be using front rank miniatures for English with flintloque elves as their help
And possibly using lotr hunter orcs as the savage Martians.
I have started to convert hunter orcs with Victrix napoleonic rifles.
I just wondered if anyone done similar and suggestions for english cavalary mounts.
Most my miniature choice is because I have them in the loft lol
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You might want to consider these figures from Meridian Miniatures:
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=45304.0
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I remember those.i was going to use front rank as they are cheap, :D
The rest I already have,including some voystroyans that could be my opposite Russian army .
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There is a Martian beast of burden here : http://tinminis.com/catalog/?cata=1000&id=15 (http://tinminis.com/catalog/?cata=1000&id=15)
Otherwise, assuming you don't want to use horses, some sort of dinosaur - such as Games workshop dark elf cold ones - always work well in my opinion, though are perhaps more suited to Venus than Mars...
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I have seen that miniature before,I've bought some gw steeds of slannesh,to use as cavalry mounts.
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Pictures, please! Also, someone on here did some great Prussian minis with LoTR wargs as mounts; perhaps try a search if that interests you.
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Just out of curiosity, have you read any of the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik? I've not, myself, but the cover blurb suggests the era, though I don't think you mentioned a Nappy air force of dragons...
Doug
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No I haven't read that,will have a look for it.my slannesh steeds never arrived.but been refunded.and ordered more replacements.but with kids gardening and household duties .it will be a while before I get round to doing them lol.
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Just balancing dragoon on steed,to get rough idea.
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o_o >:( how the hell I do that,thought it was the iPad to start with.
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Clicking on the image corrects it. I like what I'm seeing here.
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Nice start!
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Could be interesting :)
cheers
James
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This blog unfortunately never took off: Napoleon on Mars (http://napoleononmars.blogspot.fr/).
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I did have a quick glance at that ,before but thanks for reminding me. :)
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This blog unfortunately never took off: Napoleon on Mars (http://napoleononmars.blogspot.fr/).
The last picture of the Little Corporal is worth the stop alone! lol
Doug
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Beginning to wonder if I should used Sudan era troops ? But might use them as veterans or scouts.
Will try an squeeze some camel corps in ,it certainly won't be historically accurate that's for sure lol
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Bonaparte's French troops in Egypt would look 'exotic' enough for a Martian setting:
(http://frederic.berjaud.free.fr/Articles_de_Didier_Davin/04eLeger/4e_DB_legere_Egypte_1801.jpg)
(http://www.ok-modelisme.com/images/pa80-19.jpg)
And they included a camel corps...
(http://desaix.e.d.f.unblog.fr/files/2011/12/Rdro2.jpg)
(http://essmc.org.au/Members%20Models/figures/bob_williams_camel_mounted_mameluke/bob_williams_camel_mounted_mameluke%20222%20large.jpg)
As for Martian Sepoys Alternative Armies have some pleasant Napoleonic Elves:
(http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0371/5545/products/51511U_1_large.jpg)
(http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0371/5545/products/51512u_1_1024x1024.jpg)
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Oh wow thanks thats inspiration, I have some flintloque elves in loft so they will be my tame natives :).
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... I have some flintloque elves in loft so they will be my tame natives :).
Now THAT'S worth a facepalm! Brill!
Doug
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Eh i didnt mean it to come across that way , i was thinking of getting some elf ladies to use as civilian camp followers that have adopted human dress.
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Eh i didnt mean it to come across that way , i was thinking of getting some elf ladies to use as civilian camp followers that have adopted human dress.
Sorry, 'facepalm' as in 'why didn't I think of that?!?'
I thought you might be using some of the Flintloque French as 'native auxiliaries'. Either way, 'Brill!' stands!
Doug
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'Native female camp followers'? Soooo French! Soon after landing in Algeria the French army created its first official Bordels Militaires de Campagne (Field Military Brothels) there -for hygiene sake, and because soldiers on leave roaming isolate dor in small groups in 'hot' alleys tend to be slaughtered. The HQ of the Foreign Legion contracted the elders of the Ouled Naïl (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Levy_%26_Fils_-_6527_-_Ouled_Nail.jpg), a tribal group still practicing sacred prostitution of Punic origin. Later BMC were alloted to all French oversea troops. They were officially disbanded when the Legion left Algeria, though the Legion regiment in Djibouti no doubt stilll has its own; when the 2 REP jump on Kolwezi it was rumored to still have its BMC in Corsica under the name of 'sociocultural home'! The girls' days of (unsung) glory came in Indochina, where they travelled together with the chaplain, the paychest and the mail in the most protected truck of the monthly convoy provisioning isolated posts. Their steadfastness during ambushes did as much as the chaplains' own to support the morale of the troops -but only chaplains were presented with medals for their attitude during ambushes. In Dien Bien Phu they turned to devoted auxiliary nurses, but official accounts mention only Geneviève de Galard, the French Air Force in-flight nurse standed in the fortified camp. Lot of potential scenarios.
Historically BMC were created several decades after the Napoleonic times, but in a SF context... Science Fiction was initially known in French as Anticipation Scientifique ;)
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... Science Fiction was initially known in French as Anticipation Scientifique ;)
Whereas, one of it's first names in English was 'scientific romance', somehow apropos of your description as well... ;)
I love English being viewed as a language "... about as pure as a cribhouse whore" which "...has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." When I heard the academy decide that French must be preserved from the word 'software' by creating 'logiciel', I could only think 'We must have it!'
My campaign fell on deaf ears. :'(
Camp followers were hardly unique to the French, but I do admire the realization of importance and the systematic approach! Of course, I'm also reminded of the MASH episode where, surreptitiously, Yank doctors treated limey foot blisters while Brit doctors treated 'merican diseases of passion. Very different taboos...
First to invent 'canning', and now this. Obviously, the French commanders understood an army lives on its stomach, AND some other parts as well. lol
3 fingers, do keep this thread going! Now, where did I put that old box of Flintloque...
Doug
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Im easily distracted lol , and with kids and car mot repairs ,we had all better keep it going, ;)
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The Ethen Cage novels, while not really "Sci Fi" are a good read and can provide some good inspiration...
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http://www.delreyuk.com/index.php/rowleys-round-up-new-sci-fi-and-fantasy-novels-in-june/
found this googling
and this
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I just remembered the (dead or at least on standing, seemingly) AB One Games 'Napoleon and the Armies of Mars (http://theminiaturespage.com/news/talk/msg.mv?id=316880184)' project
(http://theminiaturespage.com/news/pics/2012/oct/316880184a.jpg)
discussed here (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=46168.msg542752#msg542752) and on TMP (http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=281259) almost 2 years ago.