As I had some Boers laying about "without a home" , I decided to quickly base them for the task.
The following is my contingent's tongue-in-cheek backstory:
Major(recently retired)V.G.Might, late of the South African forces stationed in the Sinai at the end of the First World War, did not want to go back to Pretoria. He felt many of his (former) command felt likewise. Victor Might was dissolutioned fighting an ‘Imperial War”. A dreamer and reader of grand adventures in the back and beyond of Asia and one morning, after a much gin-fuelled read of “The Chalice of Hunn-Nee”, began his recruiting drive. He found a large body of men armed and looking for adventure and offered them images of riches and exotic lands.
Courtesy of his ‘procurement officer’, a rather daring individual who boarded commercial ships as they transversed the Suez Canal, asked for their shipping manifests (often at gunpoint) and removed whatever would be useful. One such vessel was transporting suits of men’s civilian clothing. “Can’t be wearing our old khakis can we?” To the Major’s liking, as they were of somber tones; to these were added bandoliers and, of course rifles, by far the easiest to obtain. Razors were rare however, much to some of the men’s delight.
The army was given its employment the day when the Major’s second, Piet Rasponse “Rasp” Berry asked scratching at his growing beard, “So where do we find this chalice?”
Might did not look up from his worn atlas of Asia, “Well, Rasp, the Huun Nee is thought to reside in the Bai Lie Temple somewhere in the Imagitush Mountains.”
“And how, pray tell, do we get to this ‘Bai Lie’ place?” asked Rasp.
Pointing a finger somewhere on the old page, Might responded, “Through this Jhamjar region it appears.”
…So there is my backstory to why a bunch of Second Boer War figures would be in a remote section of Asia. But how they are to be deployed, whose side are they on, and their quality is yet to be determined.
Photos of Might's 'Army' on the trail to Jhamjar
