Invasion Earth, the forces gather.

Sergeant Hall leaned back against the stone wall, taking a long slug from his watter bottle. He threw the creature into the bushes, wiped the bottle and took a drink.

A dust cloud approached the remains of the platoon, scouts shouted 'Friends' and men stood their guard down slightly. Hall staggered to his feet, exhausted by the recent fighting.

"Who is it?"

"Heavy dragoons."

"Eh... there's none within a hundred miles of here. Who are they?"

 Hall walked out of the shade and looked, then swore under his breath, he knew who they were, magnificent, but possibly unsuited for fighting Martians, the Shropshire Yeomanry! Farmers, lawyers and gentry... 

Their Sergeant was well known to Hall, mostly from mess dinners, a twenty year veteran with the Buffs, who had inherited a portion of money and had retired up to Salop, Lovell had whipped his section into shape in recent years, this would be more like it!

Figures are Lancashire Games Crimean War Dragoons, not my original first choice, but they were cheap and ready to go! I added a plume on Lovell to show rank.

 

 

 

May we suggest this as a soundtrack as you read this post?

"What the hell was that?"

"No idea Serg, but it ain't friendly."

"Men, prepare arms!"

"Guess we won't be off to Egypt just yet then?"

Si Hall, of MeG fame, has a set of rules on their way, at present called 'Invasion Earth'; here are my Lurkio figures to test them out. 

1879 Home Service British Infantry, painted as the 1/KSLI (the old 53rd Infantry), ready to defend the hills and plains of Shropshire against the alien menace.

I love the figures and how they have come out, the details and colours really pop, and Pete's Colour flags are superb!

The figures have four main varieties of pose and three sets of two command figures, leaving plenty of variety.

To show the colours.

 The sergeants are rather splendid too.

Prepare!

And here is the menace they face, as large as a single storey dwelling, the alien menace, armed to the teeth, seemingly made of rock, yet alive!

Their fearsome plasma weapons and great strength can lead to devastation to a normal human, but unaccustomed to Earth's heavy gravity their motions were slower.

They appear to have no apparent weakness.

Their march is inexorable, what they want, we cannot say...

Stopping them with a Martini-Henri .303 is difficult, but the KSLI will fight to their end.