'The Great War' Board Game Miniatures

[Suetonius Paullinus]

At Salute I bought a few PSC WW1 figures for this game and got finally around to paint some of them up. I think they are lovely and I prefer them to the BF metals (that are very nice as well but I much rather have plastics).







Cheers

SP

[von Lucky]

Your painting style has done wonders on these.

[Captain Blood]

Nice job SP. What a transformation.

[Suetonius Paullinus]

Thanks chaps!

Considering they are gaming pieces they aren't too bad. Battlefront's figures are more accurate sculpts of course..




Lots more infantry to do and I thinks I will add some Huns to my collection as well. The artillery should arrive any day now so watch this space.

Cheers

SP

[Metternich]

Haven't seen this game (not sure if we can get it in the States).  Could you post pictures of the Germans too, please ?  How does it play ?

[Elbows]

The game is wonderful...hard to get in the states because apparently PSC isn't interested in selling many copies (?).  It is available at some retailers like Cool Stuff Inc.  I don't have the tank expansion yet.

[warlord frod]

Its not impossible to get here you just have a game shop who is on the ball (Thanks Gamers Haven)  I am hoping we get the tank expansion here soon however.

[grant]

We have it in Canada - if we have it, you Americans have to have it.

[Cherno]

Looks like the Command & Colour system, as seen in Memoir '44 and other games... highly luck-based and random, but still has room for strategy and the rules are rather easy to understand so even non-gamers can pick it up and play a round or two in 30 minutes It also looks great on the table and who doesn't love shuffling tiny toy soldiers and tanks around?

[Metternich]

I see that FRP Games in the US does have it after all.  What is the scale; what level of combat is represented ?  Company level ?  Battalion ? 

[Elbows]

Abstract.

Each unit of soldiers (infantry, machine guns, mortars, assault troops) is represented by four figures - which represent the hit points.  A tank is a tank.  One unit per hex, and most games you start with 10-15 hexes worth of stuff.  Keep in mind this is a board game, not a wargame ----- BUT, Plastic Soldier Company has done an awesome job on the figures/tanks etc.  So they can be used for both.

Cool Stuff Inc. just received the Tanks! Expansion and I imagine it's probably out of stock - don't have the money to order it at the moment.

One of the starting scenarios:

[Golgotha]

Available here: http://theplasticsoldiercompany.co.uk/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=159

15mm miniatures. Could therefore use Flames of War Great war minis?

[Cubs]

Lovely work, vintage SP paintjob!

[Metternich]

Thanks for the post showing the game setup.