In Her Majesty's Name

This is yet another set of skirmish rules, though these are Victorian Science Fiction.  There is a fair amount of buzz about this set.  Jonathan, of The Inevitable Spark, has been, oh so gently, pushing this game.  From what I've seen I'm interested and it's a low bar to entry.

The cover looks awesome.  Steam, zombies and carnage.

I pre-ordered the book from Amazon.  SWMBO got an Amazon prime account for a month so I might as well make it worthwhile.  This will show up at some point, which will be nice.  EDIT (The disappointing thing for me is the starter companies.  For the first week or so they had one of the upcoming companies as being USMC.  They have since dropped that for US Secret Service.  My guess is that the fact that the US Marine Corps trademarked the name is a problem.  It's a shame, but there you go.  Defiance Games ran into the same problem changing the name of their USMC faction to UAMC.)  Everything in parenthesis is just flat wrong.  I am very pleased to be corrected.

 It's not every game where one of the authors  contacts you directly on your blog to let you know that you are going to get what you want.  It turns out that the Marines are still in and will, naturally, be awesome.  Now I'm even more excited to see this game.

That being the case, I'm still interested since the game is supposed to have robust rules for building your own adventure company.  So I'll still have my Marines, I'll just have to source them myself.  That leads me to Google and a couple of promising companies.

Marine MG's.  Picture from Pulp Figures.

The first up is Pulp Figures.  These figures are not fantastic but they do have a good variety of equipment, including a couple of Lewis Guns and a Vickers.  There is also a pack with an officer, BAR, Thompson, Shotgun and Rifle.

Officer and support weapons.  Picture from Pulp Figures.

  The other company I've found is Tiger Miniatures.  They have a wide selection of Rough Riders as well as Marines.  These are a better fit for VSF, from a historical point of view, being about thirty years earlier than the Pulp Figures.

USMC Command.  Picture from Tiger Miniatures.

The command models, above, have a lot of character and would form some nice minis to build an adventuring company around.  They also have a couple of infantry sets as well as some specialists.  There is definitely a lot to work with in this range.

Tiger USMC infantry.  Picture from Tiger Games.

I'll read the rules before I buy any models, but if I like what I see, and some of the other guys buy in as well, there are models to support my adventuring company concept.  This could be a nice side project so I'll keep my fingers crossed.