A quiet afternoon in the garden

   “No one knows who taught the Little Folk about Marxism, but it is well agreed that there will be hell to pay when they are discovered, for this was the beginning of the time of trouble”

   I was on the Midlams Miniatures site looking for a few more Rangers* and my basket was a tad light to justify the postage, and I'd looked at the Gnomes before and didn't know what I would do with them. This time, however, was the day after I had happened to have a skim through my copy of Open Combat and it all came together as a plan.

*I love the ranger archeotype anyway and 

now I have Rangers of Shadowdeep to justify it.

   One of the things that drew me to Open Combat in the first place was how easy the stats are to ‘fudge’ into an appropriate game. If I want to do a gnomish raid on a garden patch I can stat my human gardeners up to be more powerful than a hero in another game, but it doesn’t matter as the gnomes they are fighting will be much weaker. This then allows you to use those daft little collections, that you still can’t really justify, in an actual game without needing to buy enough to make a Dragon Rampant force or something similar.

   With an idea in my mind and a vague stat line written out and pointed up, I bought 1 gnome too many for what I thought I needed** and this daft project was started. Now, with Salute in less than a week, I wanted to make sure these were off my painting table, as it will come as no shock, that I have a shopping list.

**Can't risk having too few

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