During the shed purge  mentioned in my August 31 post, I found some old 15mm Minifig Sword and The Flame figures.

There’s some backstory.  Back in the mid-80’s a few of the Kansas City stalwarts at Yankee Doodle Game and Hobby fantasized about a “World At War 1899” game.  Easy to extrapolate with Fashoda and Panther incidents going sideways.  I painted up some Brits and French.  Game never happened, figures went into boxes, and decades passed.  A couple years ago, I sold off all the French and most of the Brits.  The exception was some very nice Highlanders that I figured could be used in  a DBA knockoff game.

There was a package of Sihks, along with some stray British and Egyptian cavalry.  Why not paint them up and play a big game.  Can use all my Arab/East African figures for a mash-up campaign.  Plus, this meshed well with my discovery over at Wargame Vault of the old Pluck vs. Science ruleset.  It’s for big games, but I like the character creating possibilities for a campaign.

It’s not a big thing, but a good use of the old and forgotten to create some fun possibilities.  Here’s a  pictures of the recruits.