Gentlemen of the Forum.

I have this weekend taken stock of my lead mountain, and tallied my spreadsheet (v16 edit 4.2), and have come to a startling conclusion. I may have run out of things to buy from Pendraken.

I know, I know. It seems impossible. All those lines and I can't find anything? Let me explain. It's the government's fault. In the last few years the government has cut funding to local authorities, who have savagely cut advice services. I work for an advice service, and feel a bit like a polar bear on a rapidly shrinking ice floe. Thus, I expect on a year to year basis to be allowed to go, and breathe a sigh of relief every time I make it through. To hedge against a period of employment inactivity, I have been making regular purchases from Pendraken, and stock piling paints, brushes and hamster food.

So far then, the state of play is:

Clop, clop, swish, swish

• Republican Roman, Carthaginian, Greek - Pendraken are relaunching the Greeks? (I know Greeks are tramp, tramp, poke, poke but they fit here.)
• Saxon, Norman, Viking - bought
• Stephen and Matilda - bought
• Anglo-Scottish - bought
• War of the Roses - Bought

Clop, clop, pop, pop

• WSS - bought
• Napoleonic - waiting for Pendraken British

Clop, clop, bang, bang

• ACW- bought

brmm, brmm, bang, bang

• WWII: Britain (1940, 1942, 1944, Paratroopers 1944)- bought
• WWII: German (1940, 1942, 1944, Paratroopers 1940, 1944)- bought
• WWII: Italy- bought
• WWII: USSR (1941)- bought
• WWII: France (1940)- bought
• Korea - waiting for Chinese infantry

Whoosh, whoosh, zap, zap

• Aliens, bugs, zombies, marines etc - bought

This is as far as my plans extend, but where now? I know what I don't want - AWI, 7YW, Lo the bloominA, Colonial, Spanish CW. Could be tempted by Samurai but I am daunted by the painting; perhaps WWI; perhaps a mid C19 European mash up (Austria vs France vs Prussian vs Britain) like Brittains on steroids; Byzantines would be nice to take on the Normans in Sicily. Quite fancy the ECW, but the whole pike/musket thing never looks right to me. Falklands is too near, Viet Nam too jungley, though Arab-Israeli would be quite fun ... if we had the infantry. Fantasy doesn't really do it for me en masse. 

So, Gentlemen of the forum. Have you any (polite) suggestions?

Melt it all down and sculpt one, life size, Techno

Boer War perhaps?  Or maybe just general North West frontier type action of the same period

Franco-Prussian War.
Boxer Rebellion?
Persians?
Later Romans vs PICTS?
When the PICTS get released.
Shall I say PICTS again?

The only thing you should say as much as Picts is Aztecs. And the only thing you should say more than either is armoured and armed werewolves.

Go with the Samurai.  You need a challenge. 

Redoing the ancient Greek line?  Where did you hear that?  (I need to order more of the old ones, now...) 

Late 19th C. would get my vote, interesting period, comprehensive ranges, loads of options.

Samuari are lovely, but soul and sole destroying to paint. They take 100% of your painting talent and still sit there going 'we can take more'!
Greeks are in Techno's 'to do list'.

Maybe something different, I'm still mulling over the Schleswig Holstein question.
Or something like Jack and his modern campaign approach?
An imaginary Centurian company fighting their way out of 'Country X' which has gone rouge.
Regulars use Argentine forces, irregular use NVA/VC?

gregernest wrote

QuoteRedoing the ancient Greek line?  Where did you hear that?  (I need to order more of the old ones, now...)  Cry

I think Pendraken still sell their old Republican Romans even after making a new line too, so might be the same with the Greeks.

Quote from: Dunnadd on 10 March 2015, 07:54:04 PM
I think Pendraken still sell their old Republican Romans even after making a new line too, so might be the same with the Greeks.

Yep, we'd still have the old moulds in the workshop so we can always supply previous ranges to folks still expanding their armies.

Awesome!!! 

So, back to the business of helping this gentleman finding something to buy... 

I'd also suggest FPW or an ImagiNations conflict set in the 18th or 19th Century, so that you can pick and choose figures that you like.

The sand of the desert is sodden red,—
Red with the wreck of a square that broke;—
The Gardner's jammed and the Colonel dead,
And the regiment blind with dust and smoke.
The river of death has brimmed his banks,
And England's far, and Honour a name,
But the voice of a schoolboy rallies the ranks:
"Pay up! Pay up! Colonial's the game!"

WWI is a great range - and you need early war and late war so double the buying. And there are 3 fronts (at least), Western Front, Eastern Front, and Middle East. So lots of different figures needed.

For WWII you need some mid to late war Russians.

Colonial is an area I am thinking about getting into - Red Coats are always a plus, but you get later khaki or grey uniforms and all sorts of native opposition.

When the early war German Fallshirmjager that Techno has done for 1940 are released you will need some more of those.

Japanese to go against your early WW2 Russian.


Or

NW frontier - Either traditional colonial or

Interwar ie the Waziristan Campaign

http://www.khyber.org/publications/041-045/armyininda.shtml