En Garde - The Brown Bunch Redux

 This one was easier and quicker to do as they were ALL painted and only needed rebasing... which does require some repainting, but generally just the shoes!

The Brown Bunch

Again, I decided to figure out how they could all be shoved into a 100 point warband... 

Hieronymous Vermeer - Rank 4 - Sword, Dagger - 22 points

Maarten Cock - Rank 3 - Sword, Light Armour - 17 points

Frans Vellecoop - Rank 3 - Sword, Dagger - 15 

Willem Bloot - Rank 2 - Sword, Dagger, Pistol - 14 points

Joachim Schooten - Rank 2 - Matchlock, Dagger - 12 points

Pieter Kunst - Rank 1 - Halberd, Dagger - 7 points

Jan van Florin - Rank 1 - Blunderbus - 6 points

Dirck Dijck - Rank 1 - Blunderbus - 6 points

Total: 99 points! 

I just realized, as i was finishing this up, there are a BUNCH of attributes that can be given to models at 3 points each... Ugggghhhh... I'm going to have to redo all of these.. Maybe I'll have to up the points limit to each warband... ah well... I have a starting point. 

Also... Should probably just do these for Flashing Steel/Song of Blades and Heroes... 

Just the Blue Brigade to finish up. Only two of them were ever completed, so I have a few to finish up - like, beyond just the shoes! 

Of course... It's occurred to me that I don't really have a SETTING for these... Because I ALWAYS think in terms of campaigns and settings (well... ALMOST always)... But for this I just got really excited about the game when it was announced and bought myself a bunch of miniatures from Wargames Foundry, without much thought about WHERE these gangs would be fighting - just imagined a nebulous, generic European city... or maybe a very europeanized colonial city...? Lately my mind has been drifting to the idea of a fictional city... and then I thought - What about the Princess Bride!? 

I remember the countries were Florin and Guilder, were the names of cities ever mentioned...? Was the capitol of Florin just Florin City...? (This idea initially popped into my head when I was writing the previous post about the Red Warband and got thinking one of the miniatures looked a little like Count Rugen (from the film version) - if he'd been dressed in green or yellow, instead of red... and I briefly thought about modelling an extra finger onto him! 

I will have to  give this more thought... Gangs of Florin City...? 

En Garde! - The Green Team

Oaprey Publishing produced a game, years ago, called Ronin - Skirmish Wargames in the Age of the Samurai. I played it a LOT. It's a very clever, gun game... I liked it so much, I pre-ordered EVERY Osprey Wargaming series game for, like, a year... before realizing that they were not ALL that great... While playing Ronin, however , I recall thinking at one point; "this whole mechanic would make a GREAT swashbuckling game..." 

Then some years later Osprey published En Garde! - Swashbuckling Skirmish Wargames Rules by the very same author! So, obviously I bought it instantly (by that I mean I pre-ordered it as soon as I knew of it's existence!)... and around the same time a bunch of swashbuckling types from the Foundry. I probably bought them while the game was still on pre-order hoping that I'd have them done for when it was released. I picked up enough for four warbands; Red, Green, Blue and Brown... and I painted almost ALL of them. I think the red and brown warbands were completely done. All but ONE of the Green were done... I think a few of the blues needed work. 

Then I never got around to playing it.... got them all nearly done, and got distracted by something else... 

For some reason this week, I decided to do a little bit of re-basing - to take a break from painting all the warhammer figures. Something I do when I need to take a little break from what I'm currently working on, but want to feel like i'm "progressing" or just getting SOMETHING done... Top Priority in rebasing is removing metal figures from metal washer bases and putting them on plastic or wooden discs... 

I have no idea how I ended up picking one of the Swashbucking teams but I did and, as mentioned, there was ONE miniature that wasn't quite finished... 

THIS is THAT miniature!

So now the Green team is complete and has been rebased from metal washers to plastic bases.

This allowed me to put them on flagstone bases, which seemed more apropos than just dirt... or... maybe dirt was fine... but for some reason I feel like flagstone bases look less out of place in the woods or a field than grass does indoors... but that's just me... 

The theme/setting for me seems like it should be taking place in the rough streets of a late renaissance Europe city (or a European city off in the colonies...?) with flagstone streets...

Not that I really have any appropriate BUILDINGS or TERRAIN for late renaissance... Or a flagstone board to play on... (I have seen smaller neoprene roll-up gaming matts printed with a cobblestone surface... 

Will I rebase the rest soon?! Finish off the small handful of others that just need a little bit of work to finish them up!? Actually PLAY the game!? I have no idea... 

I probably should... 

I've been doing a LOT of thinking about miniatures and collections and what I plan to do with them all in the future... Started writing a post about it... not sure if I'll ever get it done...