Fictional characters in historical games?

[Easy E]

It only depends on the size of the battle. 

For skirmish and model-vs-model type games, I love making my own characters.  For large scale battle games I typically pull from actual Orders of Battle where I can. 

However, since I play a lot of Ancients and Dark Age the records are.... open to interpretation at best.  In those cases, even entire battles are speculative or fictional in nature. 

[Freddy]

Depends on how involved they are in the setting.
-Making Plastic Dude #67756 into Johnny Smith 35 years old widow goldhamster breeder, faher of two, in his free time doing macramé is OK anytime.
-Introducing well-known novel characters, even with small special rules is also OK, historical fiction is part of the hobby of history (assumed that we know where fiction ends and historyical facts begin). A 17th century Polish battle wouldn't even feel complete without Zagloba lurking there somewhere
-Making Plastic Dude #67756 into Johnny Smith The Terrible with his personal nuclear bomb, rerollable 2++ save and casting lightning balls out of his pecker is not OK.

[carlos marighela]

-Making Plastic Dude #67756 into Johnny Smith The Terrible with his personal nuclear bomb, rerollable 2++ save and casting lightning balls out of his pecker is not OK.

  Flash... aha saviour of the universe. 

[FramFramson]

That Flash, always wanting to show off his war rocket. 

[Basementboy]

-Making Plastic Dude #67756 into Johnny Smith The Terrible with his personal nuclear bomb, rerollable 2++ save and casting lightning balls out of his pecker is not OK.

You’ve foiled me again

[Freddy]

That Flash, always wanting to show off his war rocket. 

Oh, yeah, "wargame scenarios based on the forgotten battles of the Seven Years War: The Flash unleashing his flesh lash!"
...I'd rather stick to the more remembered battles

[carlos marighela]

There are but four fictional characters suitable for the SYW, at least in a canonical sense . Candide, Dr Pangloss, Barry Lyndon and Baron von Munchhasusen.

Alas, only the last has a 28mm figure sculpted in his memory.  Of course Candide, Pangloss and Bazza could be readily proxied as I suppose could Cunegonde and Bazza's companions. There is a very nice 28mm Voltaire by Eureka on the other hand.

[Freddy]

There are but four fictional characters suitable for the SYW, at least in a canonical sense . Candide, Dr Pangloss, Barry Lyndon and Baron von Munchhasusen.

Alas, only the last has a 28mm figure sculpted in his memory.  Of course Candide, Pangloss and Bazza could be readily proxied as I suppose could Cunegonde and Bazza's companions. There is a very nice 28mm Voltaire by Eureka on the other hand.

Well, John Smith The Flash is still not overpowered enough to beat Baron von Münchhausen
Btw, Turnip28 has a rule for firing aristocratic individuals from a great cannon. (The Grand Bombard cult) They do not survive the adventure though.

[Basementboy]

Btw, Turnip28 has a rule for firing aristocratic individuals from a great cannon. (The Grand Bombard cult) They do not survive the adventure though.

I'd forgotten about that rule! T28 is great