Congo teams assembled

Just the briefest of posts from me this morning to detail the additional forces that were required to host the game of Congo last summer.  I have been trying to reign in the hobby expenditure of late, at least a tad, and so made a determined effort to use miniatures that had been left abandoned in the drawers of despair as a first port of call.  As part of the adventure was going to involve a rush back to the paddle steamer, I decided to have the a nautical theme for the Adventurers' Party and was fortunate to fall upon some wonderful 'Empress Miniatures' Naval Brigade troops that had even been prepped.  The rules allow options to field a group of soldiers, well trained men armed with rifles that can ignore stress tokens.  So for soldiers read sailors, similarly well trained and with hearts of oak, ably commanded by officers who, for this scenario, were designated as adventurers.  

The final two adventurer slots went to a certain rugged archaeologist and his somewhat taller leading lady.  Dr. Jones, who in this adventure is now Welsh and working for the British Museum, was originally bought from 'Studio Miniatures', but is still available at 'Hayland Terrain'.  Her ladyship, Beatrix, who hails from the Potteries is inexplicably drawn to gentlemen in blue jackets with silver buttons, particularly if their name was Peter, and is another 'Empress' sculpt. 

I already had a well established 'Forest Tribes' team from our previous encounters, but needed to move things around to gain parity across both teams.  This created a vacancy for some scouts and provided me with an opportunity to indulge in some rather fanciful war paint, inspired by the artwork in the rule book, on some 'Foundry' miniatures.  With the teams now assembled was little terrain and some extras, but here, dear reader, is where the mission creep set in.