Thursday, March 24, 2022

Silver Bayonet - Russo - Japanese War.

Despite having the rules for a number of months, it's taken a while to get figures to the paint table. How things have changed as I picked bloody Russians.... :-(

I had an idea to shift Silver Bayonet to Manchuria and the Russo-Japanese War, which allows me to tap in to much of Chinese collection and other weird models from the Water Margin. 


The Northstar Russian faction are great sculpts, many of them are generic in overcoats and soft caps, or civilian types so swapping out a couple of figures for the Tsuba castings and the we jump forwards 80 years.

They should be fun to play, Yori who can turn into a Werebear, an old woman who is an supernatural investigator and a priest as a champion of the faith, together with a couple of squaddies the equivalent of red skirts in Star Trek.
 

The idea for Manchuria allows me to field this Russian faction, but also a Japanese faction including monks or Chinese Honghuzi who fought a guerrilla war against the Russian occupation and regularly attacked the Chinese Railway line between Harbin and Vladivostok acting in support of the Japanese.


All set for the first solo outing.
A Russian patrol goes out in search of an earlier party who has gone missing with valuable orders for the front line. As night falls and the full moon rises they hear a blood curdling howl. 


The team stumble into a clearing where they find human remains but their investigation is interrupted by movement on all sides.

This should be fun......

8 comments:

  1. Cracking figures and terrain there Stu. Loved the whole background feel to this too and look forward to the AAR:).

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  2. I am seeing quite a lot of Silver Bayonet on blogs at the moment...will be interesting to see your thoughts after a solo game. I assume your comments about"how things have changed" relates to the current unpleasantness in Ukraine.....don't worry, I have just finished off the last few of the really nice 3D 28mm figures I got from France a few months ago....you know, the female Soviet Russians! I didn't even think about it till I was doing the basing....hopefully it won't upset people when I post the pictures of them!

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    1. Yep.... how things change... Good job this is a simple game with loads of fantasy stuff, far away from real life for a bit....
      Cheers
      Stu

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  3. Brilliant idea about the adaptation to Manchuria. The terrain and figures look great 👍

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    1. Thanks Matt, I figured it would be a good mix of all the terrain I have been amassing :-)
      Cheers
      Stu

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