Wargaming Armies on the Cheap.

 Another project, for which I have been gathering resources for the last couple of months. Creating wargame armies on the cheap. I turned to the good old game of 'Risk'

I wanted a set which had six colours, red, blue, green, white, grey and yellow. The later sets only offer five colours and one of those is some hideous lilac type colour! It is a pity as they did have troops wearing shakos. This particular edition, the troops are wearing tricornes.

The five boxes cost me just over £50 including shipping, the figures in two of the boxes are still in their factory sealed bags, never played with.

Next up was the bases and I turned to Warbases here in the UK. 25mm square mdf bases with rounded corners and 25mm circular bases for leaders. They actually cost slightly more than the five games did. I now have all I need to create six decent sized armies. Total cost approx £110.

I shall be basing them as below, with four infantry to a base, two cavalry, a single cannon and one cavalry figure on a round base as command.

Each box contains 40 infantry, 12 cavalry and 8 cannon per colour. Multiply that by five, and well you get the picture.

Now I have a whole heap of glueing to do. I will not be painting the figures nor do I plan to flock the bases, but the latter may change once I see how they look.