Risk: Europe

Post-Christmas our local toyshop was selling off copies of this game for just under $30. I looked at the back of the box, and saw that it was chock-full of plastic figures, so I bought a set. This is what you get in it.

Plastic figures. Quite a few.

There are four factions, which are kind of Generic Western European Medieval, Scandinavian, Possibly Byzantine and Sort Of Turkish. Each one has three figure type - a foot-soldier, an archer and a horseman. For each faction you get 35 each of the first and 12 each of the archers and horsemen.

Here they are:

The colours are a little garish.

The Turks and Scandinavians. The Turkish figures are rather nice, although their archer appears to be left-handed. The cavalry and foot-soldier are nicely animated. The Scandinavians have a nice crossbowman and a rather good axeman, plus a wonderfully wild looking double-axe armed horseman that I suspect has little in the way of historical precedence.

The Western Medievals in their luminous green are pretty much what you'd expect. The archer in the long coat looks a bit strange, but the knight and foot-soldier are delightfully generic.

The Byzantine cavalryman is on a half-armoured horse and has a mace. The archer looks ... eastern. And the foot-soldier is almost certainly supposed to be a Varangian Guard.

In addition each faction has two war-engines. They are different for each one. You get a battering-ram and a trebuchet ...

... plus a catapult and a ballista. All rather nice pieces.

How do they scale? Well, they're bigger than 15mm figures. The box says 22mm. I haven't sized them against any Airfix or Revell figures to see how they line up.

So I now have a pile of vaguely Medieval figures looking for a project. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with them yet. They're a bit big to match up with my 15mm DBA or HOTT armies, although if I can get a matched pair out of them for the former that would work. I suspect they might scale with my 3D-printed Dragon Rampant troops though, so that offers possibilities. And there's always the idea of simply basing them up in a suitably generic way for use with things like One Hour Wargames or The Portable Wargame.

I suppose I could have a look and see what the actual game is like as well. All I've done so far is look at the figures.