Great coat guard, diverging paths

[commissarbob]

Hello all, I have had a strong desire to do a great coat style guard army for a long time and did so with limited success using the Bretonian peasant archers and Men-at-arms as the basis for my Verdun 297th and doughboy style helmets with gas masks. My problem is my own in that they are not uniform, which bothers me but it suits the ragtag and poorly supplied background I came up for them.



Anyways, Maxmini just released their great coat legs after much anticipation, and I must say they look very nice. This brings my quandary here as I have two ideas based off of the same legs with curiasse armored torsos.



Idea one would be the simplest to do by using Pickelhaube heads with gas masks from West Wind Productions.
www.westwindproductions.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=126_149&products_id=1523

The other idea involves using the Space Wolves bare beardy heads and sculpting shakos onto them lending themselves to an Imperial Russian feel not entirely unlike the Vostroyans.

The problem is that I like both ideas and each has their own appeals. The German one would be a fairly mechanized force with an obscene number of heavy weapons. And it would look great opposing my British themed army and the clean design lines would be a joy to model. They would tend towards a grey pallet with a bit of green giving hints of corruption by Nurgle.

The Russian one has the opportunity to be more resplendent in the details and would be a more strongly infantry based army with a bit of supporting artillery and a heavy contingent of rough riders. They would have a primarily red theme with a bit of white and metallic gold for most any of the exposed metal.

Any suggestions for me in directing my next army?

[KRIEGEIRK]

You could do a combination of both of them? Most Guard regiments are combined together after suffering heavy losses? You could just figure out a fluff that works the two regiments into one?

[BG. Foster]

I like the look of those legs, might have to get me some.

I'm with Kriegeirk on this one, do both and write good fluff to back it up.

[vegna]

by what you've said their going to opose the other army thats more WW1 Allies, so you could do both in one force, showing multiple continents, regions and such working on the same front? different armies have different equipment, you then have field repairs and salvaged gear or traded/purchased gear. Aparently the WW1 germans in Africa were nearly all equiped with British issue gear as they stole it due to supplies not being sent to them.

Sounds like another one of your threads I'm gonna have to follow

[3ff3ct]

Mar 31, 2012 15:38:32 GMT -5 KRIEGEIRK said:

You could do a combination of both of them? Most Guard regiments are combined together after suffering heavy losses? You could just figure out a fluff that works the two regiments into one?

Bear in mind that lots of regiments also often get fielded together during large campaigns. Your army could represent elements of different forces supporting eachother. Base them the same and they'll look fine on the tabletop

I saw a stunning Death Korps/Elysian army done like this, and it fitted in well fluff/background and gaming wise as the elements included in the complimented eachother

[commissarbob]

If I were to do them together, I would want to do more different than just a head. One group would have the carapace as noted in the drawing and the other would have only flak armor.