Strange Symmetry.  Sounds like a Prog Rock album title.  But, in this case the title refers to my The Sword And The Flame (TSATF) Boxer Rebellion project.

Just one year ago (give or take a week or so) I posted this up.  Well, it’s never over until its over.

Was not happy with my unit and unit size composition for TSATF.  I ordered more figures this Summer to “complete” this decades-old endeavor.

I now have “full sized” twenty (20) figure Chinese units.  These include two (2) Regular units (well, one full and one nineteen (19) figure unit because Caliver Books – which markets MiniFigs – botched my order and shorted me one regular figure), and four (4) Boxer units.  One of the latter units includes seven (7) Chinese regulars (repainted “Christian” Chinese cited in my 2020 post).

The Caliver mistake bothered me for a bit, but I shrugged it off – proof that I am not all that compulsive.

My German unit is now ten (10) strong, and can be used to augment an Allied contingent.  Again, the core of the Allied force is  United States Marines.

In conjunction with the latest purchase, I ordered a copy of Osprey’s Imperial Chinese Armies 1840-1911.  According to this, “modern” units were outfitted in westernized uniforms and straw “boaters”.  Their appearance is shown to be similar to the Chinese Weihaiwei Regiment raised by the British.  I have some of these figures.  They might be “repurposed” to represent local Chinese troops resisting Western forces.  A possibility.

The dining room table will be pressed into service for a game this coming week.