As requested, WWII Refugees!

[sunjester]

What sort of scenarios are you people dreaming up that require hordes of refugees? As non-combattants their only function is to get slaughtered or, at best, get in the way. No, don't tell me, I don't want to know.... 

One of the guys at the Tring Club ran an early war scenario with groups of refugees wandering randomly around. If a unit ended up close to a refugee stand it halved their speed as the civies were blocking the road.

[Syr Hobbs]

Oh nice idea, I love those little twists that don't take much effort.

Duane

[Squirrel]

Can we get some of these with rifles/sten guns, I could see a use for them in D-Day scenarios as French resistance, just stat them up as fairly rubbish and you'd be good to go. BUT you do need one female in the "Leesten Vaerly Carefooly, I shall Say zis onley wance..." pose.

I'll second that! These will be a great addition for RPG.

Cheers,

Kev

[GrumpyOldMan]

Hi

Just came back home and I find some nice releases to tempt me to spend more money  .

Just a shame that the boy is too young to alter to a boy scout  .

Much better looking than the too slim and tall aliens from railway types I've got now. With the VBCW police (thank you for the samples Leon  ), gentry types and these, my next order is already taking shape.

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan

[Derek H]

What sort of scenarios are you people dreaming up that require hordes of refugees? As non-combattants their only function is to get slaughtered or, at best, get in the way. No, don't tell me, I don't want to know.... 

My latest 10mm project is France, 1940.  The refugees will be crowding the roads and generally getting in the way.

[mijalo]

My latest 10mm project is France, 1940.  The refugees will be crowding the roads and generally getting in the way.

Ditto.
Just to add a few more blockages, does pendraken make a horse-drawn wagon that could be used for the period?

[Leon]

Ditto.
Just to add a few more blockages, does pendraken make a horse-drawn wagon that could be used for the period?

Coincidentally, Dave's working on a conversion of the ECW Tumbrel cart for use in the WWII ranges as well.

[GrumpyOldMan]

Hi mijalo

Ditto.
Just to add a few more blockages, does pendraken make a horse-drawn wagon that could be used for the period?

You could use the German service wagon GR35





Possibly for refugees, just use 2 horses and a head swap for the driver from one of the new refugee figures 

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan

[Hertsblue]

You probably wouldn't even have to do that - peaked caps were common enough in the Low Countries and near the coasts. Just paint it dark blue.

Incidentally, if those wagons were your work, Grumps, they're very, very nice. 

[mijalo]

Coincidentally, Dave's working on a conversion of the ECW Tumbrel cart for use in the WWII ranges as well.

Thanks. Any idea if it will it be available at the same time of the refugees?

[mijalo]

You could use the German service wagon GR35
Possibly for refugees, just use 2 horses and a head swap for the driver from one of the new refugee figures 

Thanks. That will be definitely borne in mind, with may a little work of the wagon's load; I imagine refugees weren't quite as orderly in packing as the wehrmacht.

[Leon]

Thanks. Any idea if it will it be available at the same time of the refugees?

Not sure at this point, depends on other stuff.

[GrumpyOldMan]

Hello Hertsblue

Incidentally, if those wagons were your work, Grumps, they're very, very nice. 

Unfortunately they aren't mine, I found the pictures on a forum post and they are from http://www.combatcommand.co.uk/Pendraken/ which has some painted examples of Pendraken WW2. You can tell my work by the smudgy fingerprints and the plaster dust where I have thrown them at a wall 

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan

[lentulus]

What sort of scenarios are you people dreaming up that require hordes of refugees?

Well, there's get the refugees to safety, per Defiance http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034303/
and there's "Partisans or civilians", good for WWII, or your favorite interwar civil war.  And some of the figures would be fine for protesters for interwar union violence, perhaps just before your favorite civil war.  I bet they would also work for Hungary '56.

Not all pure wargame situations in the sense of a straight up battle but such things can be fun to game.