Alternative use for the Musketeer "British Civil War" figures?

[traveller]

I have been drooling over the Musketeer "British Civil War" for too long 

Have to buy them, question is only what to use them for... I am not so keen on "alternative history" and would rather find a suitable historical conflict to give them employment. The Spanish Civil War seems possible. What other conflicts using British kit and weapons would be possible?

Grateful for any help!

[TadPortly]

The conflict in Ireland for independence.

[traveller]

Is the British equipment not too late for the Irish Troubles?

[commissarmoody]

Any post WW1 conflect, say some up riseing in Africa or the old Norhtwest fronter. Or troble in Sengapore and china as a whole.

[Geudens]

The 1938 Belgian civil war...:

http://www.tsoa.be/html/titelblad_to_arms.html

Rudi

[keeper]

Inter-war North-West Frontier.  There were still skirmishes and raids and all sorts of low-level activity going on in the 20s and 30s up there.

[the commissar]

The armed civilians could be used for early WW2 Home guard.

Although the problem then is that as the Germans never invaded you would still be fighting "alternative history" to use them.

[Poliorketes]

Spanish civil war

[Geudens]

The armed civilians could be used for early WW2 Home guard.

Although the problem then is that as the Germans never invaded you would still be fighting "alternative history" to use them.

Indeed, but we've just put our (free) "fun Home Guard" rules online, exactly with that in mind:

http://www.tsoa.be/pdf/dads_army_rules.pdf

and added a twitch whereby Hodges (the Air Warden Chief) is - as always - displeased with the HG performance and decides to create an armed "Civil Guard" from the AW ranks, in civy clothing but wearing the (black) AW helmets to do better...  Why the black version (and not the white one)?  Simply because I have painted my Musketeer B.U.F. militia's helmets black, and this way I can use the same figures for two different type of games.  We all agree Hodges & Mainwaring would not fire life ammo at each other (...) so I came up with the following:

"As soon as the Home Guard units had received proper uniforms and weapons instead of pitchforks and the like, it was realised that drill and practice at the fire range wouldn’t be enough to make real soldiers out of the recruits. Staging mock battles in the area to be defended would be crucial for their success. This was all very well, but how would casualties be simulated?
They couldn’t just open fire on each other, could they?… Fortunately for the troops in our area, Pvts Walker and Frazer came up with a brilliant idea which they named the “Grease Gun”: a combination of a rifle and… a grease gun, which they patented…
Walker had a sufficient supply of these from an overstock and Frazer engineered the combination in his workshop. These fine gentlemen (…) graciously agreed to produce the Grease Guns for a small fee (“to help with the war effort”). The principle was simple: the grease gun was attached to the rifle and a rubber tube (inserted airtight through the chamber in the barrel) guided the machine oil the grease gun was filled with (under pressure) in the barrel of the rifle. Aiming the gun and pressing the grease gun’s handle resulted in a beam of oil being “fired” at the target. Any opponent covered in oil would clearly be a “casualty”. “Wargames” could now easily be staged between different HG platoons or even Hodges’ “Civil Guard” without anyone being harmed beyond nothing a good scrub couldn’t mend…"

You can find a pic of the Grease Gun" at page 21 of the rules.

Rudi

[redzed]

I used mine as Partizan's/Resistance  LINK

[huevans]

Any of the Civil Wars or Freikorps stuff in Eastern and Central Europe after WW1.

Nazi putsch attempts and political riots and violence in urban Germany in the 20's. There was a reason Adolf created the SA. Political parties routinely killed or beat their adversaries in Weimar Germany.

[traveller]

Thanks for all your input. Question is if the British kit they are wearing can be used for anything else than British troops?

[Lowtardog]

Thanks for all your input. Question is if the British kit they are wearing can be used for anything else than British troops?

Hmm to be honest you will be stuck really with either Britian or its commonwealth countries for the equipment.
Some like the workers and the IWI IRA can be used more easily for SCW and Europe in general

[Bullshott]

Also useful for any pulp, BoB or Call of Cthulhu setting where you want heavily armed British adventurers. Men in civilian clothing with rifles and Lewis Guns would be perfect for adding fire support to fossil hunters in Mongolia and jiust think of the mess they would make of come of the CoC monsters 

I had a look the stuff made by Musketeer today at the Bovington show. They have some very nice stuff along these lines. I am seriously tempted to get a couple of their lancia armoured trucks to support my BoB British.

[Gallowglass]

Is the British equipment not too late for the Irish Troubles?

A bit late for the 1920s, yes.