As I mentioned in March my local gaming group has started a Back of Beyond campaign using a homebrewed adaptation of the Mersey system rulesets. My friend Alex adapted Drapn/Lion Rampant for World War I as Over the Top then added a supplement (if you will) for Back of Beyond with specific armies and a campaign system.
I decided to build a Warlord Chinese army as it seemed unusual and I didn’t know anything about what was going on in China during the interwar period. My go-to for painting references is Osprey’s Men-at-Arms series and as is typical I learned a fair amount of history from Chinese Warlord Armies 1911-30 .
I decided that General Wu P’ei Fu (aka the Jade Marshal) sounded like an interesting character so I chose him as my army’s general so I more or less modeled the troops on his Zhili clique (one of the northern armies). One of my friends gift