"Canadian Campaigns : The Great North West Rebellion" Topic

… Metis Fighters and the 90th Winnipeg Rifles

"Years ago I became interested in the Military History of 19th century Canada. No idea why. Maybe just because it was a rather obscure subject about which I knew nothing, aside from the events of the War of 1812. However, the turbulence of the USA's great Civil War and her conflicts with the culture of the Great Plains did seem to spill over the Canadian border in the form of a handful of interesting and little known conflicts that interested me more and more the more I researched them. Amoung them are the revolts of the Metis and Cree peoples, and the fascinating, though weird, almost to the point of seeming surreal, Fenian invasions of the immediate post Civil War years. There are also the "What Ifs?"…What if The British Empire had gone to war against the North during the American Civil War? What if Sitting Bull's flight across the border had brought his Sioux followers into clashes with the NWMP and the Canadian Army? The pictures on the old blog today represent the beginnings of a collection of figures I hope to amass in order to game out some of these Canadian campaigns, some of which are historical and some speculative. We start with the Great North West Rebellion of 1885…"

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Armand

I have those figs for the Royal Winnipeg Rifles but took the liberty of actually painting them black!

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Armand

The Perry's make a range for an imaginary Britain v USA war in the 1860's.

If you want to do Plains Indian Wars, you probably need to convert some 2nd Afghan War era pith helmet lancers into NWMP.

The guys on the Paper Cartridges You Tube channel figure that the 1860's Brits would shoot any ACW army to shreds at 500 m range before the Yanks (or Rebs) could close btw.

Still hussars vs JEB Stuart's Johnny Reb cavalry would be pretty cool to play.

Thanks

Armand