Warlord (Pro-gloria) plastic Landsknechte

[Major_Gilbear]

@ Captain Blood:

Thank you, that's pretty much what I understood too.

In fact, now I think about some more, maybe Warlord's reluctance to do plastic Landsknecht is because the Perrys have a similar kit of their own already in the works?

[mweaver]

Well, somebody needs to do them - I have desires!

[Argonor]

Thanks, all!

[Atheling]

Maybe they're waiting to sell a requisite amount of metal's first before they release the plastics? Or maybe they just want to sell the metals(?) though I cannot see them being as profitable as the plastics?

Maybe I'm on the wrong track altogether? 

Darrell.

[Von Trinkenessen]

What I believe has happened is that now that it is part of Warlord 's proposed plastic releases it has to compete for funding with their other proposed plastic releases and wait in a queue until funding is available?
If their rennaissance line is not their best seller we could be waiting some time behind Bolt action, etc.
Just my 5 pence worth.
Guy T

[Captain Blood]

Yep, sounds very plausible. It's Warlord's MO.
Rather as they did with the Arsenal Miniatures range, they've grabbed the creative and tucked it away in the bank for when they feel the time is right. They can release it at their leisure, dependent on competing investment priorities, and what new products they think will yield the best return... Or it may never see the light of day at all. They have a very businesslike approach to life.
Fair enough I suppose, since they are a business, after all.
But it's still galling for those of us who backed Stephan's original venture, and would have very much liked to have these models in our hands by now...
Had someone else taken them on, perhaps we would have.
But then again, who else was there to take them on?

The radio silence on any release plans (or non-release plans) doesn't help though.

[Atheling]

The radio silence on any release plans (or non-release plans) doesn't help though.

I absolutely concur.... I hope I'm not mistaken as being a bit facetious but it appears a tad GW-esque sady.....

Darrell.

[Arthur]

Well, GW is where the Warlord people come from...

[westwaller]

...and the two companies have many similarities, not all of which are positives...

[Atheling]

Well, GW is where the Warlord people come from...

That's kind of what I was getting at Arthur.... I may well be barking up the wrong tree but I do wonder if some of the GW business ethos has rubbed off in a big way at Warlord Games? It is entirely possible that their business model is sound but it's a bit alien to a lot of historical wargamers that haven't arrived by the GW route me thinks. And some that have I would imagine.

Darrell.

[Captain Blood]

Well, the best things come to those who wait 
You can look lovingly at the 3 ups and plan how you're going to paint them when they finally arrive.

[Argonor]

Well, good for my wallet that they don't exist in plastic, yet.

Might have been tempted to do a small army 

[Atheling]

Well, the best things come to those who wait 
You can look lovingly at the 3 ups and plan how you're going to paint them when they finally arrive.

Already planned! 

Darrell.

[GamesPoet]

Pro-Gloria figures would be nice to have, yet I'm not waiting forever.  I'm working on a Landsknecht army already with what's available currently, and the newest figures pending the completion of a kickstarter ... https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1704581903/28mm-landschneckts ... will be my next addition to it.

[Hobbit]

I spoke to John Stallard about these yesterday. To paraphrase the conversation I had with him:

They are currently in tooling; in practice this SHOULD mean that they will be available in about 6 months time. The original owner of the range had very large numbers of components mastered; far beyond his budget to then have the injection moulds tooled. Warlord will, initially at least, only be putting about half of those components into tooling as the full range would be impractical. The plan, for the moment, is to have a sprue that enables you to build approx 8-10 pikemen and 1-2 handgunners.

(Whether or not the rest of the mastered components will ever make their way into a mould wasn't discussed).

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