So, this happened a few years back, and honestly it got me SO upset I couldn’t even post about it.

Anyway, found some figures that connected to it, and thought I would finally share.  Curious to see people’s‘ take on it!

So, some years ago I took part in a Longstreet campaign with a local group of wargamers.  Not everyone had an army of the correct size and basing, so I thought it would be good of me to do what I could to help!

I went ahead and put together four Longstreet armies, using figures I had had for years and years.  You might remember that I posted about the process, here…

https://lordashramshouseofwar.blogspot.com/2013/09/three-more-longstreet-armies-done.html

Unfortunately, the campaign wound down without a true „ending“ and that’s when trouble started:(

Two of the armies never really found their way back to me.  One person moved out of state, and the other didn’t really game with us much.  He lives about an hour away, and I just couldn’t get down to get it.

But the third army… that’s what kills me.

The person who borrowed them brought them back one day… and they were DESTROYED.

Now, I had gone to GREAT lengths to make them nice.  I had done work on the basing to make it look better, with tufts of grass and flowers and the rest.  I made sure everything was edged nicely, created counters to represent skirmishers and heroes, and made sure all of the base sizes match all of the other armies in the campaign.  You can see them above.

But for some damn reason, when I got this army back… they had been torn up.

Here is what the bases looked like when I loaned them out…

And here is what I got back.  For the ENTIRE ARMY.

Some figures torn off their bases.  Some bases cut in half, for some unknown damn reason.  Some bases cut in half, and then glued back together onto thick wooden bases.  Some bases with the bottom half ripped off (they were mounted on card.)

THE ENTIRE DAMN ARMY looked like this.

And the person who gave them back to me didn’t say anything.  Like… nothing.

I think I was in such shock that I didn’t say much.  I honestly cannot even remember what I said, but there was no explanation, no apology, no nothing.

The ENTIRE ARMY.  Ruined, torn up, cut up.

This was a few years ago, and it still BLOWS MY MIND.  Figures I had had for YEARS, and which I worked HARD on, and which I really cared about.

Anyway… it’s honestly frustrated me so badly that I’ve never posted about it.  I started a post about it a few times, but never finished it because I got so pissed.

It is just TOTALLY alien to me.  Not only do I love toy soldiers too much to ruin them, but I also have WAY too much respect for other peoples things.  If someone lent me soldiers, I’d guard them with my LIFE.

Has anyone out there ever had this happen to them, where they loaned someone figures and gotten them back totally ruined?