Going Through The Lead Pile

I'm working on my next company, but I took some time to go through my lead pile to see if there are any figures suitable for IHMN. I found 4 that might fit but none are classic VSF.

One however might just form the basis of a whole new company, but no clues yet.

RN First Draft

This my first attempt at a Company. The RN landing party is based on a regular infantry company but all figures have a cutlass (except the Colonel). For the Lieutenant and the Asst Surgeon this gives the Duellist ability, but for the Ratings it is subsumed into the normal Bayonet Drill.

Lt Phillips (Captain + Inspirational and Duellist) 72pts
Surgeon Ffont-Bittocks (Medic + Duellist) 20pts
Col Entwhistle (rtd) (Great White Hunter) 48pts
CPO Pertwee (Sergant) 29pts
9 x Ratings (Riflemen) 20pts
Total 349pts

Yes, it's a large company, but I plan to run it with two players, each taking half. (The Lt and the Asst Surgeon plus 5 ratings will be one group, the Colonel, the CPO and the other 5 ratings the other.)

What's All This IHMN Then ?

I've become very interested in the game In Her Majesty's Name (IHMN) so I'm going to see if I can keep a blog about my gaming for this system. I'll try to post once a week, but given my past record, no promises.

IHMN is a Victorian Science Fiction skirmish game, in which 'Companys' of 9-12 agents of one of the World powers battle it out for influence, money, control and other arcane purposes.

It attracted me for a number of, most importantly because it's very flexible, it's well supported on a forum here http://www.lead-adventure.de/index.php?board=82.0 and you can create an army for under £20.

This scores big time over so many game systems (Warhammer, DBMM, FOG, Black Powder) because the outlay required to get an army is several times that of IHMN.

I picked up the rule book and some figures at Cavalier, and already have ideas for a couple of companies, so time to get things going.