Plastic Persians - Wargames Atlantic

[Wiegraf]

They're coming out boys and gals! Sometime this year!


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[Emir of Askaristan]

Oh goody!

[twrchtrwyth]

They look to have improved their sculpting compared to the skeletons.

[Erik]

Excellent. With Men of Bronze my interest in Greeks have been reawoken and I have just ordered a box of Victrix hoplites. I never really fanciet painting two armies of Greeks, but with these Persians you can field their archenemy in plastic.

Great, great.


Erik

[Mick_in_Switzerland]

Is Wargames Atlantic related to the old Tony Reidy company Wargames Factory that went bankrupt anout 6 years ago.

There are remarkable similarities in the subject and packaging design.

[twrchtrwyth]

Is Wargames Atlantic related to the old Tony Reidy company Wargames Factory that went bankrupt anout 6 years ago.

There are remarkable similarities in the subject and packaging design.

Wasn't the company called Defiance Games?

[Mick_in_Switzerland]

Wargames Factory was the first company and I wrote some painting articles for them. I was quite involved in discussions about their plans at the time. The Wargames Atlantic ranges appears to pick up where they stopped - Greek inspired Skeletons, Dystopian versions of WW2 Germans and Persians.

Defiance Games was the second company.

[Easy E]

Color me interested.

The ranges for Persians are surprisingly limited.

[Andrew_McGuire]

They look to have improved their sculpting compared to the skeletons.

There's definitely more flesh on them.

[Codsticker]

There's definitely more flesh on them.

[Dr Mathias]

Is Wargames Atlantic related to the old Tony Reidy company Wargames Factory that went bankrupt anout 6 years ago.

There are remarkable similarities in the subject and packaging design.

Unrelated, other than one of the freelance sculptors Wargames Atlantic uses worked for phase 1 WGF (Reidy era) for a while. This company has a couple different people doing the 3D modeling. Not sure if the package designer worked for phase 1 WGF/Defiance, I don't think so but it's possible.

[Mick_in_Switzerland]

@ Dr Matthias - Thank-you for the clarification.

[Harry Faversham]

Oh, bleedin' marvelous!

[Cyrus the Great]

The skeletons were redesigned sometime during the Wargames Factory / Defiance Games era. I would feel a whole lot better knowing who's behind Wargames Atlantic before I gave them my money. I HAVE asked this question in a previous thread and I'm still awaiting an answer from anyone who knows. Fool me once...

[Dr Mathias]

I HAVE asked this question in a previous thread and I'm still awaiting an answer from anyone who knows. Fool me once...

I'm not sure which thread you are referring to. There was one, which I am linking to below, in which I provided answers to the best of my ability.

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=115605.0

The person who founded Wargames Atlantic is Hudson Adams.

The skeletons were redesigned sometime during the Wargames Factory / Defiance Games era.

My understanding is that the WGF skeletons were redesigned (to make them more robust and easier to assemble) quite a while after Reidy left WGF, right before the ranges went to Warlord. I have the older versions. The new Greek themed ones by Wargames Atlantic are totally new, from what I can tell, although some of the subject matter (shield types etc) are represented in both sets. The same 3D sculptor may have produced both the WGF and Wargames Atlantic skeletons. I was never involved with Reidy era WGF and Defiance so I don't know who all worked for him.