Afghans, DAK and British Intervention Force

This week I’ve been able to catch up a little. Still not quite as much as I’d like, but a decent number of figures compared with previous weeks.

There’s 11 more Afghans:

plus all of the Afrika Korps for my friend Jon - another 39 figures. Although there are also several “crew served weapons” I think only the MG34 should count for extra points.

The bulk of the troops:

Machine gun and radio:

and three support stands:

And finally, another command base, this time for the British Intervention Force, which is a slightly odd army created by the Perrys. The BIF were the British and Canadian forces intended to defend Canada against Union incursions in the ACW, and potentially intended to invade the US and aid the Confederates across the border, but were never called on to act. 

I like this army because, in essence, it's Victorian "fantasy". If it's ever going to get into action, then that action must be fictitious, so it could be used within ACW, Victorian Science Fiction/Steampunk or a Victorian Imagi-Nation, all of which I rather like the idea of. It makes me think of H G Wells, and is likely to form the basis of a slightly more extensive Victorian fiction of some description.

In total, then 51 foot, 1 mounted + 1 mg = 275 imaginary pts, all of which will contribute to the side challenge with Stuart, too, which now totals 775 pts.

With regard to my overall targets, it's pretty obvious I'm going to fail to meet these in the time remaining in this Challenge, but here's the state of play nevertheless. 

Project	New Task	‘Points’	Old Task	‘Points’
Agincourt
AWI	Farmstead	3
Black Seas (1/700th)	2 merchants	20
British in Egypt: 1801			Generals de Rolls’ regiment	30 60
Cape Wars	12 infantry	60
Carthaginians
Crusades	Command group	20
ECW
French in Egypt: 1801	Guns	50	Command Gun crew	75
Frostgrave/fantasy	3 Treemen	24	Frankie	5
Italian Wars
Lord of the Rings
Minden (15mm)
Ottoman
Peninsular War			12 Spanish	60
Republican Romans
Sikh/Afghan Wars	Command stand 8 Irregulars	15 40	11 irregulars	55
1860s British IF	Command base	15	Union rebasing	0
1880s, the Sudan	Buildings	15	18 British	90
Walmington/Sealion	6 landing craft	30	3 Civvies 6 zombies Bandstand	15 30 2
Waterloo
WW2 Desert	3 trucks 39 Afrika Korps	30 195	15 Italians	65
Zulu War	NNI Frontier Horse Natal Carbineers	30 60 50	Pearson & Chelmsford 4 foot	25 20
TOTAL		657		532