Picking a force for a table top game comes down to a variety of factors. The miniatures are most important to many. Some may consider how 'good' their army will play before picking. I picked a partisan / resistance force to build for Bolt Action for a couple of reasons:
1) Black Tree Design and Warlord do nice little ranges.
2) the figures are flexible. I can use them for anything from A Very British Civil War to Across the Dead Earth.
3) I can't play Third Reich. I know that it's only a game etc, but genocidal bastards? I like to get into character when I play these games - if only tongue-in-cheek. For me the Nazis are too dark a place for an evening rolling dice.
4) 'Regular' armies have identical uniforms. Painting guides require the purchase of the right paints. Painting ranks of khaki sounds a bit too much like work. Resisters, on the other hand, come in uniforms from their old national army, deserters from occupying forces, work clothes and Sunday best. Their weapons vary from the obscure and obselete, the bits and bobs scavenged from the occupier, crates dropped by the SoE or delivered by Soviet networks.
5) Facing torture and death, braving impossible odds against an overwhelming occupier - what's not to love?
1) Black Tree Design and Warlord do nice little ranges.
2) the figures are flexible. I can use them for anything from A Very British Civil War to Across the Dead Earth.
3) I can't play Third Reich. I know that it's only a game etc, but genocidal bastards? I like to get into character when I play these games - if only tongue-in-cheek. For me the Nazis are too dark a place for an evening rolling dice.
4) 'Regular' armies have identical uniforms. Painting guides require the purchase of the right paints. Painting ranks of khaki sounds a bit too much like work. Resisters, on the other hand, come in uniforms from their old national army, deserters from occupying forces, work clothes and Sunday best. Their weapons vary from the obscure and obselete, the bits and bobs scavenged from the occupier, crates dropped by the SoE or delivered by Soviet networks.
5) Facing torture and death, braving impossible odds against an overwhelming occupier - what's not to love?