Tea Wars: New Range.

[Dewbakuk]

£8 for 3 figures ain't that bad against some companies that charge £8 for a single miniature.
I will be keeping an eye on these.

See, I don't buy that as an argument (pun not intended). The figures I can think of that are around £8 a figure, I'll only ever buy one of, if I even buy it in the first place. For example I bought a hunter figure from Freebooter at Salute for £9, it hurt to pay that much for a single figure but it was to be a merc character fig in a couple of different games and it's a lovely sculpt. I'd never buy another one though.

With the Tea Wars infantry I'd probably need to buy about 30 of them (if I wanted to be able to use every figure then I'd definately need to) which is £80. When I can get more figures from Empress for £40 which are also better sculpts, why would I spend that? Multi-pose isn't worth that much and is often a detraction when working on lots of them, the weapons are interesting but weapon swaps/conversions aren't difficult to do. Neither is worth doubling the price of the figure.

[gamer Mac]

I totally understand you points and agree with most of them.
I was just trying to point out that I didn't think they were overly expensive which seemed to be a major point people were putting across.
Also I am not as flashly as you with the cash and would probably only want 10   
I will wait to see what they are like when they come out. Maybe if they fit in with other ranges you could use them as special weapon sort of figures?

[Dr. The Viking]

I totally understand you points and agree with most of them.
I was just trying to point out that I didn't think they were overly expensive which seemed to be a major point people were putting across.
Also I am not as flashly as you with the cash and would probably only want 10   
I will wait to see what they are like when they come out. Maybe if they fit in with other ranges you could use them as special weapon sort of figures?

I would happily buy the units with VSF-feel at that price. Firstly they'd be special unit in our games and wouldn't require more than 10 a unit (gaslight here).

I think it would be a mistake of Blackpyramid to assume that people would go for their regular British infantry at that price. After all the market is LOADED with Praetorians.

[former user]

multi-part kits is a nice Idea, but what's the point of it if there are hundreds of british colonials available from other companies.
Plastic would be something different.
OK, one can argument that You always get 3 spare heads and also some spare weapons for conversions, but I guess if they start offering these without the soldiers, it would be the better bargain.

[Dewbakuk]

I totally understand you points and agree with most of them.

Sorry if it came across as an attack, it's just an argument I hear fairly often that I honestly don't believe stands up in most cases.

Also I am not as flashly as you with the cash and would probably only want 10    

The only problem with that comment is we know it's a lie  
If you liked the figures that'd be it.

Maybe if they fit in with other ranges you could use them as special weapon sort of figures?

That was my original hope, having seen the figures though they came across as pretty big. Admittedly I didn't have any figures in my pocket to do a comparison with so impressions could be wrong.

[fastolfrus]

Saw them at Derby, and although the figures looked nice enough...they seemed just a touch too expensive for what are basically Zulu War British with space guns.

Slightly tempered by Glynis having bought about 100 Zulu War British off the bring & buy for a considerably lower price, but the designs just weren't special enough to get any money off me. I would prefer to spend the cash with Ironclad, which reminds me I really must get a unit of Guards.....

[Ruarigh]

It's a shame these figures are not 15mm. I could do with some Tea Wars figures to expand our Space 1889 games. I rather hope that they call the rules Time4TK.

[Christian]

They appear to have the chunkiness that Wargames Factory is lacking. However, I do have a box of Zulu Wars British already Still, these look very cool. Depending on what comes out later I wouldn't mind grabbing a few of these... the guns look great!

[Thunderchicken]

These chaps are going to be at WMMS next month which is my local show. I'll get hold of some of the figs and post some comparison pics.

[Chairface]

These chaps are going to be at WMMS next month which is my local show. I'll get hold of some of the figs and post some comparison pics.

Fantastic!

[rob_alderman]

Looks excellent. If they are metal then definately.
Especially if they are multiposable.

I'd like to see some other things than just infantry, you can get them anywhere now!

[Christian]

These chaps are going to be at WMMS next month which is my local show. I'll get hold of some of the figs and post some comparison pics.

It's next month already! Dash it, man, where are they???

 

[Thunderchicken]

Patience my young Jedi. WMMS is on the 21st so I'll update you then.

[Christian]

Ooh, thanks for letting me know Now, was that in the Sir Alec Guiness voice or the Ewan McGregor voice?

[chantyam]

Picked up a pack on e-bay and due to a mis-listing stating 4 figures instead of 3 the seller honoured this by sending out two packs (six figures in all) with my choice of weapons (choose the "Aether" type) and got an e-mail asking for my choice of base's (got the 20p sized round resin") the figures are of the large size in fact will size up with GW quite well at a glance -the heads are aso seperate and I got 12 heads for 6 figures.
avialable on e-bay under seller blackpyramidgaming0771