Troops on Parade - 28mm Spanish Civil War

[Yarkshire Gamer]

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With nothing happening on the gaming front due to the continued outbreak of Phobon Plague there was plenty of time to put together a Troops on Parade feature.

This time it's the turn of the 28mm Spanish Civil War collection to get the spotlight.

Started mostly because I really like the figures (own up who hasn't done that !) My knowledge of the period was pretty limited, but along with the number of figures, my interest has grown and grown and the more I learn about SCW the more it fascinates me.

We have our own set of rules which I think (I would I wrote them !) give a real period flavour, it's definitely a highlight of the gaming year putting on a SCW game. A real shame it has such low popularity amongst gamers, it has a lot to offer.

Pop down the blog for a ton of photos of the units along with the now standard Utubes video.

At the end of the piece I start to think about the future of the blog. Do I carry it on ? In all likelihood yes, but probably in a changed format, hits are massively down on many posts and that traffic seems to be migrating to other Social Media. I think it's a general trend, just typing out loud.

Regards Ken
The Yarkshire Gamer

[has.been]

Impressive.

[mikos khan]

Nicely done!  I especially like the tank camo scheme.   

[Driscoles]

A very happy Empress Miniatures customer 
Great Collection! Really cool.

[nicknorthstar]

Hi Ken

I had a similar SCW 'froth' years ago. It was so long ago I bought my figures from Anglian Miniatures not Empress  I read loads of books, as well as histories I read Hemmingway, Orwell and Lee's writings, it all got quite high brow by my normal standards.

All the figures are packed away in cases, I find it frustrating I can't use all my collections, every day.

Maudling aside, those random Moors and IB figures I had made were a purely selfish project. I wanted to refight Jarama, and there isn't enough variety in the Empress range for the hundreds I needed. They also have specific poses (every 8th IB figure would have been kneeling loading wearing glasses). I wanted more neutral 'rifleman advancing' to build the armies up.

The picture below is the game at Salute. I used Warhammer Historical's Great War rules to refight it. Bit stylised but good fun.

 

[Yarkshire Gamer]

Hi Ken

I had a similar SCW 'froth' years ago. It was so long ago I bought my figures from Anglian Miniatures not Empress  I read loads of books, as well as histories I read Hemmingway, Orwell and Lee's writings, it all got quite high brow by my normal standards.

All the figures are packed away in cases, I find it frustrating I can't use all my collections, every day.

Maudling aside, those random Moors and IB figures I had made were a purely selfish project. I wanted to refight Jarama, and there isn't enough variety in the Empress range for the hundreds I needed. They also have specific poses (every 8th IB figure would have been kneeling loading wearing glasses). I wanted more neutral 'rifleman advancing' to build the armies up.

The picture below is the game at Salute. I used Warhammer Historical's Great War rules to refight it. Bit stylised but good fun.

 

Those few figs you had done were a great help building my Brigadista and Moors up to so it definitely helped us out.

SCW is a big favourite here at Yarkshire Gamer and we usually have at least one game a year, we'd do more if we had less collections of figures 

Regards Ken
The Yarkshire Gamer

[Lord Raglan]

I am never surprised at the depth of your collections anymore 

[Yarkshire Gamer]

I am never surprised at the depth of your collections anymore 

Many thanks Gareth

[fred]

Another great set of figures, Ken. I can see why you want to get them out for more games!

I think for many of us SCW is one of those interesting periods, but too close to WWI or WWII to justify collecting another army. As I certainly have far more armies than ever get on the table.

[leadfool]

Wow, That is an impressive collection!