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Miniatures Adventure => Age of the Big Battalions => Topic started by: Tim Haslam on 23 January 2019, 10:11:03 AM
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I'm aware of all the great plastics that are now on the market for 28mm Napoleonic gaming.
And if I was to consider trying this period out, it's this scale is try. Plus the plastics help keep the cost down.
But I've put plastics together before and they can be quite time consuming.
So which plastic sets are the quickest to get together for painting?
Hope this make sense
Thanks
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Also, keeping the theme of the thread going,
Which rule set is a good starter?
I don't want massive armies like Black Powder, I'll just not get there!
But I don't want to skirmish neither.
Something inbetween possibly?
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Sharp Practice 2, currently on sale at TooFatLardies.
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Just don't get the victrix ones as they have more parts.
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Warlord's plastics are usually pretty quick to do, not too many parts on them. They look decent enough too. Another vote against Victrix if you want to do them quickly, nice miniatures but loads of bits and pieces. Perry plastics are not too bad either! :)
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Being very general here,
Perry. Best sculpts overall and simple sprues with a couple of simple poses
Then Warlord. Sculpts are ok, very simple sprues but little or no variety
Then Victrix. Better sculpts but complex/fiddly sprues
But that's just my thoughts. You'll find images of each sprue online and can make your own mind up.
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For rules, another vote for Sharp Practice II. You can base your miniatures in sabot bases and use movement trays to represent formed units (I use Sarissa Precission)
For miniatures, I prefer Perry Miniatures plastics over Warlord, and both over Victrix (which are nice but a nightmare to put together!). Problem, perhaps, is if you want to include a few metals in your armies. Perry's metals are nice sculptures, but their castings are a hit or miss; some are perfect, but others are awful. Also, they have the problem -in my opinion, of course- of overloading their metal miniatures with equipment; while it might be historically accurate and helps to bring alive the miniatures, it is time consuming when painting armies. I use them for vignettes, command stands and artillery crews, but for battalions or squadrons I prefer to look other manufacturers.
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All good advice,
Plus I've just found out a gaming buddy of mine also has Sharp Practice, so no worries looking for an opponent.
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Another vote for Perrys, in particular for French. Their metal Castings could be better at times, but not outside the usual I dare say. It‘s just that plastics spoil us in that regard, and the Perrys have more details to ruin by bad casting than others.
As for Black Powder, remember that you decide on the size of units (e.g. our regular units are 20-24 miniatures, but you could also go with 16 or even 12). And armies must not have a large number of units to work either. 4-6 formed infantry, some skirmishers, a gun and some cavalry and you‘re good to go.
Can‘t go wrong with Sharp Practice though.