French Indian Dinosaur Wars - Project Complete(ish)

Well I've now got the models and terrain to play, it's just a matter of "tidy up" stuff. I've got Reptoid tribesman/dino herders, Indians (both sides), French regulars, marines and irregulars/trappers; as well as colonial militia, British regulars and Rangers - as well as civilians, log cabins and some fenced areas for farms. If budget permits later I could expand to some "nice to haves" like grenadiers, highlanders or light companies for some variety, but The Forest fantasy needs more purchases at the moment.

I painted the militia in vaguely Pennyslvania and Virginia colours so I can have two separate groups or one combined group.
 

I've also kept ~12 Reptoids unassembled as they come only with javelins and muskets and I'm hoping some future purchases (Oathmark gobbos?) may donate bows and club/axe hands to go with the spare Ungor shields I've got earmarked for them. 

I can work one rules (I have a random ideas notebook for boring car trips) but I'm simply adapting ME:SBG to keep it quick and easy. So really only: 

(a) add some Reptoid "psychic" powers to MESBG rules; telekinetic/pyrokinetic/mind control - this will be fun

(b) add in musket rules ("reload" = once fired, skip a turn to reload; denote unloaded musket with a cotton wool ball)

These 30 militia (Virginia-style pictured above) raise my paint total to 555 in 2026. The Warlord plastics do not perfectly match their metal line with much finer weapons and hands but overall size is fine. 

Dinosaurs will simply be multi-wound monsters, aligned with similarly sized ogres/trolls/etc from MESBG. I'll probably dispense with might-will tracking and replace with a "out of mana" or "out of might" token; basically you roll a second dice and if that fails, you are out of might/mana until you skip a turn to "recharge."  Right now I can fudge it enough, offhand, to play a game with my kids whenever, so we're good.

While the British got 20 of the box, I assigned 10 to the French to give them their own irregulars. They got knit wool caps and can be ceourer-de-bois or whatever they are called. 
 

I always base and assemble miniatures during downtime, so I always have some projects ready to go. I've got some ~60 Secrets of the Third Reich Soviets/Germans/British on my bench, some to receive headswaps for mages... and a few token female heads to appease my daughter (she says she 'gets' that realistically girls make a small proportion of active soldiers but she 'likes' to see the odd pigtail in amongst the troops so *shrugs* I had lots of unmistakably female heads 3D printed).

I've a solid selection of French Indian (Dino) war for skirmish games and while I'm awaiting my Forest budget to recharge I'm going to switch to a new painting target to keep up my progress.... luckily I always have 2-3 projects based and ready to go at all times...

I've also got some metal Quar under my workbench. I'm astonished they got their own WA plastic line. While they are pretty quirky - Anteaters fighting a civil war with WW1 tech, armoured tractors and featuring messenger squirrels IS fun... I just didn't think they'd sell that well?  The old rulebooks were characterful and awesome and the new ones seem quite interesting, mechanically (I may review them sometime as whilst free, they use some unusual mechanics.)