More Swashbucklers

Here are some more swashbucklers I hope will be useful for En Garde!. I really know nothing about the game, but I’m working under the assumption that it will involve gangs or some sort of team similar to theBuntai in Ronin – Skirmish Wargames in the Age of the Samurai with an average or 6-8 guys per side - maybe a bit more, maybe a bit less, depending on quality and such… I’ve started to organize these new figures into 4 teams or gangs in similarly coloured clothes.

(Remember: click on the pictures for a bigger version):

The most recent batch. Figures are from Wargames Foundry

(Dang, did I miss painting a pupil on that guy in red!? AARRRRRG!?)

Team Green so far (or The Green Gang?)

Team Red/The Red Gang so far (Ugh, that eye… and I think I missed the bit of lace tucked into his glove!? I’m slipping… but I’ll have that fixed before I post the completed gang!)

The Blue Boys – feeling a bit lonely by comparison – but I have more almost done! 

In other news…

I got to play a game of Firefly with the family on Saunday afternoon. We played the easy (and shorter) “First Time in the Captain’s Chair” goals – as we haven’t played for a while and this was more or less just to refamiliarize ourselves with the rules.

The Girl totally trashed us all – AND she did it all doing legal/moral jobs!? The game seemed so short we kept on playing to see how many more turns it would take the rest of us to complete the three goals.

I came in second, but only because earlier in the game when Amanda had the chance to tip off the Alliance cruiser that I was sliding through Alliance space with a shipload of contraband (and gain herself $500 in the process) she elected not to (bless her socks!). She probably did this because she was also running not-so-legal jobs and had herself a ship full of fugitives and wanted crew and at some point someone else might draw that same nav card…

Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:

More Swashbucklers and some medieval peasants. 

Organizing Ospreys

(or “The Ridiculous Things That Keep Me Awake At Night…”)

(or “The Closet A-R Pokes His Head Out to Have A Look at the Outside World”)

Like so many others I have a small collection of the miniature wargamers “porn” of choice: Ospreys.


Over the years I picked up one here and there on topics of interest. I've often wondered about how to organize them; spread they out throughout the library among other books of the same period (as the rest of my books are generally grouped) or keep them all together. I’ve kept them all together. This is partly for organizational purposes, but also for aesthetic reasons - they just look nice all together.

The second ridiculous point of wonder and concern is whether, among the group of books by Osprey Publishing, to organize them by series (Men-at-Arms, Elite, Warrior, Campaign, etc) and series number or by period. Up until this point I have chosen the former – mostly for aesthetic reasons. And until recently I was pretty much able to find what I needed through physical memory of where things were within the collection.

Over the last year my collection of these books has more than doubled – thanks in large part to the fact that Amazonsells them pretty cheap – but mostly due to Plum Circle Books who sell them on ebay even CHEAPER! I am, unfortunately, a SUCKER for “a really good deal” and have found myself buying ones of marginal interest or that I “might” find useful/interesting at some point… (idiot).

Anyway, because of this recent influx, I am finding now I have a harder time locating the exact book I wish to refer to at any given time and I have slowly been trying to convince myself that it’s time to reorganize them by period…. (aesthitic right brain shudders at the dimished beauty of it all, A-R left brain shudders at the whole slew of new organizational questions…? Do I organize them by series within broad period groups? Or by strict dates? What about overlaps!? Shudder-shudder-shudder!!).

Is anyone else tormented by these sorts of things…? Or am I just the biggest idiot alive!? Sometimes I really kind of do feel like I’m just a character in a Larry Leadhead comic…

Another post if/when I sort it all out…