Risk: Europe

Post-Christmas our local toyshop was selling off copies of this game for just under $30. I looked at the back of the box, and saw that it was chock-full of plastic figures, so I bought a set. This is what you get in it.

Plastic figures. Quite a few.

There are four factions, which are kind of Generic Western European Medieval, Scandinavian, Possibly Byzantine and Sort Of Turkish. Each one has three figure type - a foot-soldier, an archer and a horseman. For each faction you get 35 each of the first and 12 each of the archers and horsemen.

Here they are:

The colours are a little garish.

The Turks and Scandinavians. The Turkish figures are rather nice, although their archer appears to be left-handed. The cavalry and foot-soldier are nicely animated. The Scandinavians have a nice crossbowman and a rather good axeman, plus a wonderfully wild looking double-axe armed horseman that I suspect has little in the way of historical precedence.

The Western Medievals in their luminous green are pretty much what you'd expect. The archer in the long coat looks a bit strange, but the knight and foot-soldier are delightfully generic.

The Byzantine cavalryman is on a half-armoured horse and has a mace. The archer looks ... eastern. And the foot-soldier is almost certainly supposed to be a Varangian Guard.

In addition each faction has two war-engines. They are different for each one. You get a battering-ram and a trebuchet ...

... plus a catapult and a ballista. All rather nice pieces.

How do they scale? Well, they're bigger than 15mm figures. The box says 22mm. I haven't sized them against any Airfix or Revell figures to see how they line up.

So I now have a pile of vaguely Medieval figures looking for a project. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with them yet. They're a bit big to match up with my 15mm DBA or HOTT armies, although if I can get a matched pair out of them for the former that would work. I suspect they might scale with my 3D-printed Dragon Rampant troops though, so that offers possibilities. And there's always the idea of simply basing them up in a suitably generic way for use with things like One Hour Wargames or The Portable Wargame.

I suppose I could have a look and see what the actual game is like as well. All I've done so far is look at the figures.

MOAB Loot

I realised that I haven't shown you the few bits of loot I picked up at MOAB this year.

Aside from the Army Painter starter set I won in the HOTT tournament I picked up a couple of bags of random plastic bits from the bring and buy. I can't remember what was in each bag now, but they were a mix of various Clix and Clix-type figures.

My reason for picking up the bags in the first place were these three giant stompy robots, perfect for 'Giant Monster Rampage'. To be honest the two aren't quite humanoid enough for me, and may go under the knife, if only for parts ...

.. but this one is just what I've been looking for. Here he is with one of my Bandai Godzilla figures.

There were some smaller support troops with them. Probably too big for giant monster games (although the power-armour figures might make nice light mechs), but they may find homes in a Epic 40K HOTT army.

Here's some of the mixed figures, mostly from fantasy or horror games, although there's a Marvel Heroclix Man-Thing in there as well.

Some more odd 'things'.

And some very odd things.

Finally - this. What is this all about?

I also picked up another stompy robot - A Dystopian Wars Prussian robot. Again, it scales perfectly with Godzilla. Godzilla vs  Giant Teutonic Steampunk robot - what's not to like?