Earlier in the year, Mark Copplestone put on a "Mark's Little Soldiers" game at the Partisan Wargames Show. Given that "MLS" originated as a "faux nostalgia game of imagi-nations" set in the 1930s, Hereford1938 has always had a fondness for the Copplestone-sculpted figures (see the "Shiny Stuff" blog label to the right):
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| MLS Game at Partisan. Highly stylised terrain - but the presence of sheep clearly indicates a distant link with Hereford1938. |
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| Railway track and oil refinery in the centre of the table. Wider shot of the highly stylized "mountains". |
Interesting as photos of the game itself were, even more interesting was the MLS method of representing HQ Sections, Hospitals, Casualties, Prisoners of War and Off Table Artillery:
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| A separate, off board tile with all necessary components represented |
The question then arose - where did those rather nice tents come from, including the already marked-up hospital tent ? A bit of searching of Mark's various sites provided the link (the French National Archive) to WW1 paper soldiers, and an even greater variety of paper tents:
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| General Joffre's Command Tent |
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| An army marches on its stomach - a bakery tent |
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| Infantry Tents - in this case, British Imperial infantry. |
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| That nice hospital tent |
These tents may or may not need a little resizing for the purpose of 28mm figures - but, subject to that, are pretty much instant pieces of card terrain for those blessed with a printer !
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| One last one we particularly liked, even if we had no immediate use for it - the Kaiser chained in a cage ! |
(1). "Partisan" photographs snitched from Alys Toy Soldiers Blog (see HERE) Aly Morrison needs no introduction, and the blog is well worth keeping up with for figure/period variety and (obviously) painting tips and recipes.
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