Warlord Games Mystery Box

 Once again, I have given into the power of a dark bargain.

This time it was the Warlord Games Mystery Box which enticed me. Though not normally a gambling man, I decided upon the Black Powder era box in the hopes of getting a wide range of figures and oddities to use for pirate games and Turnips and colonials alike. The Black Powder name does cover everything from the early 18th century to the early 20th, after all.

In hindsight, I probably should have expected this. Napoleonics all the way down. Due to the way that Warlord lays out their sprues I do not think using them for Turnip28 would be a good idea, except perhaps for some of the horsemen. I suppose this means that at some point I will be getting into Napoleonics proper. I could resell the kits, and very well might, but the idea of doing some Russian-styled winter bases on the French infantry is growing on me by the day. In terms of value this is pretty incredible, since the starter box already has a unit discount on top of the box discount. This more than halves what I would consider the average price of a historical figure when looked at as a whole. The caveat here is that, unlike the Perry Brothers or Victrix, Warlord Games has their Napoleonic figures as monopose. But for doing rank and file instead of Silver Bayonet Skirmishing or relatively low-count Turnipbashing this is probably reasonable choice.

The company did send me one additional sprue of Peninsular British which I will find a use for someway or another. You can see the monopose nature of Warlord Sprues on display here. I do feel somewhat ungrateful for wanting boxes from completely random and potentially incompatible figure lines instead of the curated and thought-out starter experience I received, but I doubt Warlord was planning for a customer with my extremely eclectic tastes in era. The next time a mystery box is on sale I will try to restrain the bargain hunter in my soul, not due to price or value but simply because I really should try to paint these figures first. All 249 of them, give or take.

This may take some time.