I say old chap!

Now that I’m almost half way through preparing the Beja for my The Men Who Would Be Kings project, I thought I’d take a look at the British. 

As I’m not exactly rolling in cash at the moment, my plans to use metal figures have gone astray, so I’m going to use plastic figures instead. This limits my options quite a bit as I’m setting the scene in the First Suakin Campaign, so that I can field the Fuzzy Wuzzy hairdo figures for the Beja, so my British will either have to be the Yorks and Lancs or the Royal Irish Fusiliers, being dressed in Indian North West Frontier uniforms. 

I did for a moment think about using the Zulu War plastic set but with pugaree helmets from the Sudan box and green stuff converted trouser bottoms, but then reality slapped me in the face and I decided not to (yet). Anyway, I’m not keen on the pith helmets with covers, so Princess Victoria’s Royal Irish Fusiliers it will probably be (unless I go all ‚what if?‘ and create my own plucky regimental detachment of a suitably fictitious description or pretend that the 2nd Devonshires were sent to the Sudan instead?)
I also have a metal screw gun and crew to deploy, so my field force will consist of three units of twelve stalwart, stiff upper lipped infantry and the attached rather unsportsmanlike artillery. This is a convenient 24 points worth in the rules, so much less assembly work to do and also a relatively short painting timeframe required. I have ordered a spare command sprue to make up the officer and NCO numbers for the three twelve man units but may also get a Zulu War command sprue as well, so that I can make a useful heliograph team on the cheap.

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Autor: Jim Jackaman / Jim’s Wargames Workbench

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