Over the years, Playmobil has produced toy soldiers from several different periods of history. Some have lent themselves very well to HG Wells Little Wars. We have called them the gunpowder armies and we've grouped our favorites into five somewhat vague historical periods.

• The Late Medieval Period (c 1500s) - Knights and Landsknechts
• The Musketeer Period (c 1600s) - Thirty Years War and English Civil War
• The Tricorne Period (c 1700s) - Seven Years War and American Revolution
• The Shako Period (c early 1800s) - Napoleonic, War of 1812 and Mexican War
• The Victorian Era (c late 1800s) - American Civil War and Imperial Colonialism

The Victorian period of our Gunpowder Armies begins sometime around the 1850s and continues up to the early 1900s. The Crimean War, the American Civil War, the Indian Wars in the American West, the Northwest Mounted Police, the Zulu Wars, the Franco Prussian War, the French Foreign Legion in Africa and Mexico, and the beginning of World War I are just a few of the many conflicts that occurred during this era.

Click HERE to see what Playmobil has offered the Victorian Era Garden Wargamer in the past and what they have available today.