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The Victrix Rep Roman cavalryman is more akin to a 1/48 scale figure or even larger. It is ridiculous for a manufacturer to have such a huge size variation within its own ancients range. If I compare the cavalryman to my Numidian infantry (the same figure as in Weigraf's picture) the difference is huge. Therefore, the size difference between Victrix Rep. Roman cavalry and Rep Roman infantry (which I don't have but which is pictured above) must also be significant. I don't mind minor variations but this just dumb and a major ripoff for buyers. Oh, and did I mention that my Victrix order was short a set of shield transfers and no one ever responded to my email about it? Way to go, Victrix!
On the back of the information in this post I have done a size check against the Roman Republican cavalry and the Spanish cavalry, Greek light cavalry and Gallic cavalry (I don't own any Numidians) in my collection. However I seem to recall that the numidians rode small, wiry ponies, which could be expected to be considerably small than other cavalry.The horses from all sets are all of a similar height although the Roman and Gallic horses are slightly wider in the beam to the Spanish and Greek horses mostly due to the way the former two sets have separately cast saddles. However the differences are almost insignificant, especially as one is unlikley to be mixing the sets in the same unit.The riders, however, are slightly different. The Spanish, Greek and Gallic riders are slightly slimmer and and fractionally smaller than the Roman rider, which is a little bulkier, especially if you add the cloak, which makes it a much chunkier figure. It certainly shows when you put them side by side (No photos available at this time). However the differences are not so noticeable as in the earlier pohoto of Roman and Numidian cavalry.However as I said before, you are unlikley to be mixing these figures in the same units and once on the table the difference is hardly noticeable. That however is no excuse for the scale creep in Victrix, especially since they are all CAD sculpts. That said IMHO these are the best figures available for the period, cover the entire range of Punic Wars (with a small matter of Gallic slirmishers) and I for one will not stop buying them.
However as I said before, you are unlikley to be mixing these figures in the same units and once on the table the difference is hardly noticeable. That however is no excuse for the scale creep in Victrix, especially since they are all CAD sculpts.
That said IMHO these are the best figures available for the period, cover the entire range of Punic Wars (with a small matter of Gallic slirmishers) and I for one will not stop buying them.
The riders, however, are slightly different. The Spanish, Greek and Gallic riders are slightly slimmer and and fractionally smaller than the Roman rider, which is a little bulkier, especially if you add the cloak, which makes it a much chunkier figure. It certainly shows when you put them side by side (No photos available at this time). However the differences are not so noticeable as in the earlier pohoto of Roman and Numidian cavalry.
Put the Celtic cavalry from Victrix next to Warlords... yikes. But that I can accept since they are different manufacturers. The thing I can’t understand is why Victrix is going more heroic 28mm
The scale increase is probably to don't make it so easy to use different company miniatures with Victrix mini's. Which is no problem solong Victrix provides an extensive range.