What are people buying?

[RMD]

I'm from the wargamers' licence school of thought that says "Every wargames unit needs a standard bearer and the bigger the flags the better - stuff historical accuracy" excuse

So it's YOUR fault!

[ochoin]

Are they a total waste or convertable somehow ?

A total waste. Very much holding the standard in front of them and not really convertible to an NCO with spontoon or somesuch.
This is precisely why I hate companies selling 'unit packs' or grouping command figures in with the rank-and-file, as it means you've then got no bloody flexibility whatsoever and end up with shitloads of figures that you can't use (and don't get me started on standard-bearers for cavalry regiments that never had standards). I've still got over a dozen Prussian grenadier standard-bearers from when Old Glory sold them as packs of 100.

A dozen excess figures.....seems to be a minor problem. As a collector of plastic figures, I have quite a large box of hundreds of "stabbing down" etc figures I'll never use. I thought such flotsam was a part of the hobby.

And could a head swop turn said grenadier ensigns into much more useful Line ensigns? Again, a whole lot easier with plastic.

donald

(apologies about the Rugby posts: it's a form of madness....)

[Etranger]

...

Charlie Cameron (ET will know whom I'm talking about) was a lovely boy who pretty well hated school but luckily found his niche in professional sport.

donald

He's done well & seems to indeed be a nice guy.

[Etranger]

I've still got over a dozen Prussian grenadier standard-bearers from when Old Glory sold them as packs of 100.

You could field a full regiment of Grenadier standard bearers, just to watch the splutterings of outrage it produces.

[Essex Boy]

I'm from the wargamers' licence school of thought that says "Every wargames unit needs a standard bearer and the bigger the flags the better - stuff historical accuracy" excuse

Clearly, a family trait.

[grizzlymc]

I've still got over a dozen Prussian grenadier standard-bearers from when Old Glory sold them as packs of 100.

You could field a full regiment of Grenadier standard bearers, just to watch the splutterings of outrage it produces.

Or cut the standards down to a scale foot, add a bit of greenstuff and paint up the Wankel Grenadiers, HMS Priapus eat your heart out.

[Shahbahraz]

I may have accidentally started a force for Dux Brittaniurom with an eBay win... oops.

[garyp]

Warlord's buy 2 get a 3rd free offer included the very nice Cutting Edge Achaeans. So I bought a few. Ok, I bought a lot . . . .

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

Yes, I saw that one, too. Bought some WW2 French packs that Crusader don't make (sniper/light mortar, command with medic and radio, etc).

[Shahbahraz]

and I seem to have accidentally bought some more SRB/Arthurian figures off ebay. i can feel a Dux Britanniarum coming on.