1920s/30s Gangsters

[AndyT]

Hi

Not sure if this has been requested before but maybe tommygun-carrying gangsters and G-men/FBI could be an interesting skirmish type game. There's scope for some great looking cars as transport too.

These figures could perhaps be useful for pulp-dungeon games as well.


Cheers,
Andy

[Maenoferren]

me please

[FierceKitty]

Fun idea, but sounds like 28mm stuff.

[nikharwood]

I'd be in - top-notch suggestion 

[capthugeca]

Me too though I would also like some more British villains and cads of the same era.

[republic of tolworth]

Oo yes please!
Great for VBCW.

[Jase]

I'm in too!!! the possibilities for the 20s/30s are endless (not to mention the great automobiles you can have then).

[big_paul182]

yes,please


Paul

Brisbane/Qld/Oz

[Blaker]

Dang it!  Count me in also 

Gangsters and 30s vehicles in 10mm just way way too cool and very reasonable on the pocketbook 

cya
blaker

[FierceKitty]

Remember a couple of Raymond Chandler-style non-gangster types; the cool blonde, the hard-boiled detective, etc.

[AndyT]

And you'd need police figures/vehicles as well as the gangs and FBI.

I guess this could be a serious historically based set of figures or you could almost give it a comic book feel with character figures or themed gangs e.g. very large rotund gangsters, the vertically challenged (anyone remember the Ant Hill Mob?) or armed lady gangsters.

[Jim Ando]

28mm domain.

how may would you need, a dozen a side tops.

sorry for the spoiler

jim

[nikharwood]

That's not a spoiler - just an opinion 

You could make the same argument about RPGing with 10mm - and the Dungeons seem to be pretty popular.

As for needing only a few figures - my own thinking is running to this at the moment:

Gangs:
Chicago Mob: Big Boss, 3 Bosses, 15-20 henchmen
Tong: Ditto

Lawmen:
FBI: about a dozen
Cops: Chief, 20 officers, 4 detectives

Characters:
2-3 Private Detectives, Reporter & Photographer, 4-6 Dames, 4-6 Flapper girls, various citizens incl newspaper boys, street urchins etc

Vehicles:
Lots of trucks, motorbikes, cars...

[Luddite]

I'll wade in with full-scale support on this one.

Love 'pulp' and a full 10mm range would be great.  In 28mm (i have a few for the pulp-style lovliness), the problem isn't the figures its the terrain.  Much easier to do in 10mm.

To the range i'd add:

Civilians
ALWAYS overlooked but essential for street actions, bank hiests, etc.

'Mountain folk' - for those hideout scenarios

Canadian Mounties for those border-running liquor truck style smuggler scenarios.

[FierceKitty]

Small-town sherrif (cf. "The Lady in the Lake").