BOB in 54mm anybody?

[Von Stroheim]

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http://plasticsoldiers.co.uk/index.php/new-stock-3/

A tad expensive at £25 per set - the counter revolutionary set seems the most interesting

[Trooper]

They are very expensive for plastic figures, but I saw them at the London Toy Soldier show in December and they are super figures. The Armies in Plastic WWI Russians would go with them quite well. Perfect for a BoB skirmish in that size.

[Mike Blake]

Working on that very idea at the moment! We will use our own Tales of Derring Do (TODD) rules, as they provide for Heroes, Leading Men,  Supporting  Characters and Extras, all of which seem to fit the skirmish approach to BoB.

As well as the 2  sets featured there are 5 or 6 more. Some of the figures are real characters. Given how few you need for a skirmish, £25 isn't really that much (compare with GW 28mm plastic for example). He's pretty much a one-man-band and isn't going to sell many sets of such specialist figures.

OWN Figures also have some sets which fit in - 2 sets of early WWII Chinese in German helmets; Japanese infantry in peaked caps (like the AIP set); Boxers (again like AIP).

AIP have numerous sets of suitable types - Indian Army, British (Colonial and WWI), Americans, Sailors, Russians, Japanese, Spanish (SAW in slouch hats and trousers w/o gaiters or puttees for some of the Warlord types with head swops), WWI Germans & French. They also both foot and mounted sets for many of these.

I have a number of books to work through (especially The Great Game). What I really need is some inspiration for some factions and individual characters to be involved in a Narrative Campaign. I guess I need to start with one group and then weave a storyline out from them to bring in the other factions.

Anybody know of an fiction set in the period/genre? DVDs?

[cuprum]

There are also 54 mm pewter figures on this topic:

http://siberia-miniatures.ru/index.php?cPath=41_43_74

And now is not yet available for sale:

[Mike Blake]

Indeed - some splendid ones and very reasonably priced too! But most are in casual poses - which don't lend themselves always to gaming. That said I was looking through them with a view to see what could be used eg for officers and characters...

I should also say that when I bought a couple of figures from Siberia Mins the service was fast and efficient. And what splendid resource on the obscurities of BoB they have in the Discussion Group!

[cuprum]

Thanks for the nice a review about my work, Mike 

[Mike Blake]

Been awhile since there was a post on this one but did anybody give it a go? I was planning to but the old BB* kicked in and when I couldn't get much of a response form the rest of the SW Collective I went off on a tangent and did an army for the mexican Revolution instead! Had a couple of good games with it too.

But I am still keen to do something BoB in 54mm. I have all the relevant Engineer Basevich sets (which are turning up on eBay a little cheaper now, and Westons have them too (plasticsoldiers.co.uk) always have them too. A number of the Tehnolog sets (various types of Cossacks etc) are also prime contenders, an OWN WWI/II Chinese and Japanese of course. Sidetracked into Kislev at the moment but BoB next...

I asked about Fiction for the period - other than Buchan, is there any? I found a couple of Books-for-Teens that were OK (Return to the Lst World , which is more Pulp Adventure and another I can't find to see the title of at the moment!) but the adult ones were very mediocre.

[Von Stroheim]

I bought a couple of the Engineer Basevich sets  and the are some of the best plastic figures I've seen the Cubans especially - but not for this period as for fiction I can recommend the four Caspasian novels by Anthony Conway especially the one set in Warlord China.  On checking Amazon I see there is fifth title The Majors Traitor (set in Tibet 1933) only available on Kindle which I have not read - you might also like  A Splendid Little War by the prolific Derek Robinson base on the RFC's intervention.

[Mike Blake]

for some reason known only to the computer god   I did't get that last post!

So belated thanks... I will go looking for the  Conway and Robinson books.

[fastolfrus]

We will use our own Tales of Derring Do (TODD) rules, as they provide for Heroes, Leading Men,  Supporting  Characters and Extras, all of which seem to fit the skirmish approach to BoB.

Are the rules available commercially?

[Mike Blake]

No but I can send you a copy in MSWord - PM me with you email address.