[SG2] WWII Figs was: RE: Figure's Personal Equipment

Easy-Eight enterprises, who make Battleground WWII (H'ain't seen it
don't
know much about it) have some '28mm' WWII minis that look kinda cool at
http://www.battlegroundwwii.com/mini.htm... These would definately make
for
good lo-tech colonials (or WWII troops, I suppose :) )

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> From: 	Los[SMTP:los@cris.com]
> Reply To:	FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
> Sent: 	Friday, October 02, 1998 1:53 PM
> To:	FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
> Subject:	Re: Figure's Personal Equipment
> 
> Stuart Murray wrote:
> 
> > Just to chime in here, this is one of my favourite soapbox topics...
> >
> 
> 
> 
> > Games Workshop.  Now we may all deplore thier marketting tactics but
I
> >
> > think thier new Guards (in particular) the Caidian (sp?) ones look
> > more
> > like sci-fi troops, they have what looks to be a reasonable belt
load,
> > if
> >
> 
> Yes if only they were 25mm!
> 
> > only they didn't dwarf everybody else's figure range.  OK, so where
am
> > I
> > going with this rant, first I'd like to repeat my (regular) call to
> > Jon for
> > more belt order/marching order figs plus REcon/LURP/Pathfinder types
> > with
> > rucks/bergens and kit.  And secondly I'd actually like to suggest an
> > alternative,  I have recently been shopping around 20mm WWII figs
and
> > I was
> > stunned, the quality of many manufacturers completely blows away
most
> > 25/28mm manufaturers (GZG included), PLUS, the figs ALL have a
> > realistic
> > amount of kit.  In particular worth looking at for use in sci-fi are
> > late
> > war German SS Panzergrenadiers with assault rifles, thier smocks,
> > helmets
> > and weapons don't look out of place when comaperd with  modern/near
> > future
> > figs and with a bit of careful shopping around moutain troops and
> > others
> > equiped with rucksacks can be found.  I think one other advantage of
> > the
> > 20mm figs may be the problem of crowded table that can occur with
> > 25/28
> > (more especially the latter) platoons.  I have seen games with a
> > couple of
> > platoons of 20mm figs plus 20mm AFVs on a 6x4 table and they do not
> > look
> > too squashed in.  And remember, 20mm (ish) buildings are easily
> > available
> > in model railway stores !
> 
> I pretty much agree with all of your comments. Would like to see more
> kit. Are people not going to be drinking water or eating rations in
the
> future?  Or maybe each magazine holds  1500 rounds of caseless 4mm? I
> like 20mm as I believe in more "personal space" on my battlefields. (I
> have a company of Fallschirmjager in 20mm). But Does anyone make 20mm
> SCi Fi troops?
> 
> Los
>