Bob Finally does Silver Bayonet

So how did we get to this epic?

Wavy lines and picture fades!

‘IT’S ALL GERRY’S FAULT!!’

Yup but in a inspitarational and expensive way. On the OTT sbow a couple of weeks back Gerry had done a feature on Lost Heresy figures on the Indy of the Week

Cult Of Games XLBS: Enjoying Wargaming…Even If You Suck At It!

And in one fell swoop had found what I had been looking for in Silver Bayonet.

Let me explain, ever since it came out I had  been diligently buying all the Supplements with an intention to play. I argued , that I had a collection of Skirmish Napoleonic Figures, originally painted many years ago ( Redoubt Figures mainly later supplemented by Front Rank before Gripping Beast aquired them) which I had done for  home grown set of rules we had done for a participation Game at WMMMS way back when it was still at the School

But I think the main problem was that altbough there are now 4 British boxes none of the figures totally grabbed my intention, all were not quite right. The Lost Heresy British set somehow hit the right itch. Not only tbat ,the 2x Sharpe Figures were amazing.

Thinking about it in hindsight, I know now what wasnt right, all the figures were specialists, no bog standard troop types particularly PBI. The Lost Heresy set gave me those, but with odd bits of extras such ad lucky horse shoes, garlic, crosses and wooden stakes. So I could use the Nortwind figures for specialists and both Lost Hersy and plastics for tbe muscle ( the specialists will provide plenty of NPC characters for narrsaive normal nap skirmishs)

So £90 lighter (£31 standard shipping from U.S.) I ordered before show had finished)

I then dug through my to do pile, and pulled out the Wargames Atlantic Sharpe and Harper figures plus the Northwind Spanish SB set that I had got from Asgard in final bit if stock clearance on wind up.

Now I could have left it there, but now with this terrible itch I had to scratch it, So 1 French, Prussian, American and 2 xBritish S.B plus various monster sets from Northwind boxes. Not to mention a pile of plastic figure sets from W.Atlantic, Perry’s and Victrix, I have the figures I need.

Ok I don’t need them all for Silver Bayonet,but I decided why not get a generic set of  figures for General Napoleonic Skirmishs.

I purchased a set of Ospreys Chosen Men for bigger games but S.B. should work fir most smaller games even if no Gothic Horror, as plan is to put on games were tbere maybe no gothic horror. But players wont know.