These Figures Mean Trouble
My 25mm Hinchliffe collection usually fights using my rule set, a mash-up of bits from Victory Without Quarter (VWQ) and Command and Colours (C&C).
One of the VWQ elements I've shamelessly copied is the addition of random events which can affect how units and commanders behave. Because it can be hard remembering which units have been affected and how, I decided to make up some markers.
Firstly, my preacher who fires up a unit's morale. He's clearly a puritan but has to serve both sides as I haven't made a high church Anglican for my royalists yet.
He was a fairly simple modification from Hinchliffe's rather dodgy[1] royalist pikeman as can be seen here with the unpainted preacher alongside an unmodified casting.
Another event sees a unit's powder supplies affected through incompetence, in this case standing the powder barrel in a puddle with obvious consequences for the unit's firepower.
When all these random effects get too much, there's always another which sees a unit weakened as some decide they have a pressing appointment elsewhere.
Notes.
[1.] By 'dodgy' I'm referring to his appearance; a common pikeman sporting long hair; a Van Dyke beard; wearing a sash (scarf); and, a broad-brimmed hat decorated with ostrich feathers is a rather outdated (Victorian?) idea of how the armies looked.
Nice markers for the random event situations, Hinchliffe ECW range is a great one, so many lovely figures in it.
ReplyDeleteI love them but they are both an acquired taste and nostalgia driven.
ReplyDeleteVery nice, I do particularly like the preacher.
ReplyDeleteThanks, often it's the simpler figures that come out looking best.
DeleteReally like the preacher a very clever conversion - praise be!
ReplyDeleteThanks, he's a simple, but effective conversion, and my favourite.
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