Mark does well to clarify. Magellan was surely a great sailor, but his "second" managed to complete the voyage, from the Philippines to Spain, with a reduced crew, in more than difficult conditions...

More Conquistador pictures from local Museum here: https://wargamesatlantic.com/community/xenforum/topic/76284/conquistador-inspiration

Local Museum:  

@Mark Dewis  1.  The unknown is always more terrifying than the known.  What courage is needed to sail into the blue unknown where it is impossible to know if you will find land aga...

Member Miyuso posted what a Death Fields / RGD Amazon bash looks like here: https://wargamesatlantic.com/community/xenforum/topic/80168/rdg-gaming-amazon-satyrs-and-scythians?page=2

@Caratacus  Reference bulky and or "ripped" minis. I think there is a happy middle ground.  Just as female models should be recognizable female from tabletop distance, the males should ...

@H M  Reference: I did not know that.  Fascinating.  Thank You.

@Mark Dewis  I usually find a bit of surgery/scraping is required on the head that the separate hat is INTENDED for to make it fit right.    But you are absolutely right.  Eas...

@Mark Dewis The most important thing (at least for me) should be realistic proportions, female bodies are normally shorter than male ones, so these hypotethical minis should be a little smaller tha...

(All that said, there is a very clear trend of Byzantine and Islamic armories influencing each other, and both being influenced by Turkic tribes in the era of weaponry, though again the weapons the...

@Brian Van De Walker It doesnt help that you keep shooting yourself in the foot with arguments that seem to pull everything eastward; like with armor design you state that Byzantine armor becomes i...

@Grumpy Gnome Thanks for the link, nice snipets. with that one cheaky note "landfill"  what a plonker. So many go the ERDL, route, it looks promissing.

@Geoff Maybury Actually I think it would work better if they triedputting scales on the dog head and maybe added some horns (1 to 3). After all gnolls, werewolfs, etc.  are proper canine men e...

@Caratacus I am actually okay with the " Ripped Hollywood Stuntman" look for history and fantasy as long as it  isn't going to the absurd "2000 A.D./TMNT comicbook" look like the SciFi heroic ...

@William Ings Maybe, but Byzantines are a cop out since their own armor is clearly more influenced by their Eastern and middle Eastern neighbors at the points your showing then anyone in europe exc...

@H M True.

@Mithril2098 Actually its 30 figures for the male set, 24 for the female set.  Both sets cost $32 to $35 normally. 

@JTam They are supposed  to be, and to be honest a lower  "zeroish" amount of hellenist elements and even greater focus on the steppe nomad aspect would make me happy. Same deal if we are...

A similar thread over on Lead Adventure... https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=136810.0

I know it's not the intended topic, but I would be very down for some Dahomey Amazons 😁

I think this idea is better pitched at the fantasy end, though using Grecian style elements. It would denitely benefit from having science fiction options. Placing it in Classic Fantasy would likel...

@JTam Absolutely! Such a fantastic crossover, although anything with Nubia AND Diana is going to get a passing grade from me.

@Grumpy Gnome  The USMC definitely had different body armor than the Army in Vietnam.  More hard plates.  Might have been left over Korean War stuff.  But they are all very sim...

Plot twist 2. Just paint them green.   It's certainly the iconic look for Vietnam.  It IS appropriate for a big chunk of the Cold War. And after the introduction of the woodland c...

@Charles Tottington there's always spare Lizardman heads. Aside from the gas mask ones, that kit has three different styles, so a lot of people will have spares. Also occurs to me lizardman heads ...

@Caratacus  They just don't have anything that could hurt a Terminator.  Pit traps?  Siege Engines?  Good Luck. Now a Bronze Age Greeks versus Predator or Aliens movie would b...

One caution with the Perry hats... those heads are fairly small (i.e. reasonably realistic proportions) compared to a lot of the fantasy kits. You may have to do a bit of surgery to fit them onto s...

I need to set things up better for proper photos. The phone camera is handy, but I should get out the old digital and day bulb lamp.

And yet neither of those tyrants were overthrown by their people. That only happens rarely, and never if the people in general are doing okay.  (I do not count dynastic civil wars. That's jus...

@JTam  I recall you mentioning your Squad Leader before, different battalion I seem to recall. I was in the Heavy Mortat Platoon, Combat Support Company 4/502nd. If I did know him, his name ha...

You say the truth, Alessio : the parallel is obvious for me. Except that Napoléon, Emperor, screwed up generous ideals, while Hitler propagated "stinky" ideas. The result is almost the same ...

I note that the Pyrrhus (I) period corrresponds with a very strong expansionist trust of Celtic tribes towards Eastern and Southern Europe. This is the great period of the "Gallic" raids towards E...

@Geoff Maybury  The M113 remains in wide spread service with ALL of the Army. Sheridan was retired out of the 82nd decades? ago.  

@Geoff Maybury  The Battle of Hue (good beer) was early '68 and there's no ERDL to be seen.  Not sure how long it took to get to the field.

@Mark Dewis Fantastic as usual  a tallented squad that will fit most systems.

@JTam Thanks Tam I hadn`t seen any pictures of Marines waring ERDL only tiger stripe on the pathfinders and Rangers. Even black and white photos show camo, and I`ve amasssed quite a few. that would...

Plot twist. If you paint them with ERDL camouflage you can use them from 1968 to pretty late.    I would argue there is no discernable difference between ERDL and woodland when painte...

@JTam @Grumpy Gnome New I could count on you two, thank you both, it`s a bit better than I thought. Play about change of some helmets, add bits of more modern types of weaponary. Wood land camo and...

@Grumpy Gnome  I think your right that the USMC doesn't do helmet bands.  Which is weird as they obviously did in Vietnam. For the unititated we are talking about this thing: It help...

@Grumpy Gnome  Did you know a guy named Aikens?  My first Squad Leader.  He was a Berlin BDE guy and 11C.

@Grumpy Gnome  Whoops.  You're a 100% right.  The M113 family is still going strong in the US Army.  The 4.2 inch is gone, but now it's 120mm mortars in the back of M113s (M1...

I think@Caratacus  just wants to see WGA avoid something like the admitted well made but perhaps contentious sculpting of Brother Vinni.

@Geoff Maybury Yeah, if they gave you the ability to switch tails so you can have dog tails for dog heads and made them less bodybuilder buff (and add Sci-Fi weapons), it would improve them signifi...

  @JTam Ah, you make fair points and jog my memory some. I concur with your observations and recollections. Good shout on the webbing suspenders over instead of under the armor, however that...

Pretty much concur with @Grumpy Gnome here: There's a few things worth discussing. 1.  I don't believe the USMC has ever had a sizeable presence in Europe. To the best of my knowledge...