I could very well be in
DEEP trouble...
Whilst committing a neatness today, an admittedly rare & infrequent exercise, often abandoned, I literally discovered something in the vicinity of 100 ECW/TYW figures...
Almost all appear to be Wargames Foundry...
They are all individuals, foot & mounted, many in plastic bags with a simple Wargames Foundry printed label, some figures are identical, albeit with various head/hats/helmets. Some poses I recognise from the WF website, some sets I have complete & bagged, others 1 or 2 of. & there's a sedan chair?? Which looks to be complete, horses n'all...
PLUS 20-30 Foundry Elizabethans...
& a small assortment of musketeer
ish swashbucklers, a few pyrates & some 17th C odds n'sods, all sans provenance.
This troubles me, on several levels.
I have an incredibly vauge n'hazy memory of acquiring these. It could only have been late '70s early '80s. Did anybody in the USA sell
individual Wargames Foundry figures as well as sets 'round that era? Were their sets, frame gun, petardiers, blacksmith, etc, ever polybagged with printed labels rather than clamshell or other packaging? I can't imagine these are re-casts, too very, very clean n'crisp.
Where'd I get em?
&
WHY??
Dioramas? Possibly. There's lots of artillery & plenty of vignettes.
And there are nowhere near enough to give a good start to an army of any ilk.
Clearly, given the singularity of the figures was I perhaps intent on skirmishing?
With what rules? I have nothing in the library that fits.
I played a good bit of
Retinue 1-1 medieval skirmishing.
&, of course, lots of
Swashbuckler boardgaming, Tavern Brawls & Boarding Ships!!
Great Fun, to which we ultimately added a few figures in place of tokens.
What was I gonna
DO with these lads?
We'll set aside why I failed to find these folks when I first examined the sad remains of my leadpile when I decided to re-enter the hobby a coupla years ago, after a 30 year hiatus. I blame my longstanding container fetish (I have more receptacles
for things than stuff needing contained) and duplicate boxes sans labels.
They are here, gorgeous, paid for, unallocated, & sadly, now beckoning.
I need yet another project like I need another neck.
They fit with
NOTHING I'd
planned...
Belay the chants of "send 'em to me!!" & gimme some suggestions.
That do NOT involve further acquisitions.
Off the Top of my head I'm seeing:
Swedes on the Delaware
Defying the Dons on Yucatecan incursions
Holding the coast against the Yemassees
Taking the Piedmont from the Cherokees
King Phillip's War & similar early American
ethnic cleansing pacification.
Mebbe even forays into the Carribean or along the east coast of Africa.
I've already got Mike Demana's
Song of Muskets and Tomahawks from First Command Wargames that would work. Also a a copy of
Matchlocks on the Warpath which I picked up at Siege of Augusta for $5. It seemed a good adjunct for
SD&T, though I like Mike's game mechanics MUCH better. I believe there's a supplement coming to address earlier conflicts, which would perhaps suit these figures bit better. Perhaps Mike could chime in.
http://www.firstcommandwargames.com/& I've still got my old
Swashbuckler game too!!
Any other suggestions?
Bonus Question: Why didn't I buy Darkest Afrika back then, instead of ECW/TYW?
Valerik
dammit, I hate it when things like this happenEDIT my miserable spelling