Where this came from and where its going

A few years ago, when I decided to trim my collection of toy soldiers again (still chasing the dream of having room to store/display and play with all of my "keepers" without duplication of period and game style), I hit one snag. The 40mm, 1840/50's British forces that I had initially created for campaigns in India didn't have an enemy and I had no idea when I was going to find/make one or an equivalent without duplicating my 54's. However, one has only to look at my blog header to see why I didn't want to let them go. Then the Great War bicentennial arrived and I decided that required my attention.

The Queen's troops  storming a Brethren of the Coast stronghold in  2009 during my play through of Scenarios for All Ages,

Now that "my" Great War is done and gone, and some of the Scruby Colonials, the figures that converted my to the shiny toy soldier look (See  Dick Larsen's Enfilade game) are available again, its time to get back to the planned Northern Atlantica Colonial campaign. 

I want it to be compatible with my 40mm War of 1812 as there are a number of units that  can do double duty when I'm in Toy Soldier mode and short a unit. (See "The Fox is in the Henns").

The last game, "The Fox is in the Henns"April 2017

I also want to go back to the look of the early days of these armies (see Blog Header) and of the last big Faraway vs the Brethren game before the Great War came to dominate things. However, I'm planning to stick with small quick games apart from special events so I am not planning the larger armies for this setting that I once dreamt about building.

Air and Sea expedition against the Brethren April 2017. Photo courtesy of The Newport Noodle

So here's what I expect to have available for a One Hour game sometime this week:

Faraway Trading Company
Brigadier Stonefort (Royal Army officer on Loan)

    Faraway Trading Company Troops:        Larsen's Lancers
        FTC Rocket Battery

        FTCM Landing Party (Heavy Gun) 

        Ross's Rifles
        (1st Kapelle Sepoys - not available)

Royal Faraway Army Brigade:

    The Buffs
    The Green Tigers
    The Royal Fusiliers
    Victoria Rifles

Royal Kyuqoit Army

General: ??

Household Lancers

Royal Grenadiers

Freedom Brigade (Foreign Volunteers )

1st Battalion

2nd Battalion

Brethren 

Mountain Battery

Provincial Forces

Local Scouts

Riders
2 x Local warriors 

Faraway forces currently  available for this campaign.