Weird hankerings....

[Silent bob]

Hi,

I like to collect weird little periods - I quite fancy getting some figures for a 1605 type skirmish game, based on the Gunpowder plotters 'stand' at Holbeche House.

Any one got any ideas for figures (TAG?)...would I be better off using Tudor or 'early' ECW figures?

Cheers

[joroas]

Late Tudors I would say, take a look at some of the Reivers gangs.  Remember that the Plotters were almost all gentry.

[Captain Blood]

Some perfect figures in the Foundry Sea Dogs range. They are basically late Elizabethan, so almost spot on for James I and the Gunpowder Plot.

Fashions changed a lot between 1600 and the 1640s, so most ECW infantry types would look wrong for the Gunpowder Plot, although Bicorne do some nice figures in and amongst their packs wearing older style burgonet helmets, which would work okay. But you have to buy a pack of 8 figures to get the one wearing a burgonet, so quite a costly option 

[Jeff965]

Would the TAG stuff be to early?

[The Gray Ghost]

Would the TAG stuff be to early?

Tudor TAGs would be, I to would go with Foundry

[The Gray Ghost]

I just finished a documentary about the Plot, I had no idea it was so interesting, or that there were so many plotters.
I think I'll dust off my own swashbucklers and give it a go.

[fastolfrus]

Last game I played used Redoubt figures.

Large figures, but you get a good mix of heads in their range

[The Gray Ghost]

some of their ECW figures mix well with Foundrys Swashbucklers

[Metternich]

Late Tudor costume probably a better bet - the ruff collar is still in vogue.  Try Foundry's Swashbucklers, Eureka's Portugeuse, and almost anyone's border reivers.