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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Topic started by: Mikai on 07 February 2025, 10:18:56 PM
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A (at least for me) surprising release by Wargames Atlantic, two new sets, one for Fantasy Townguards, one for Villagers.
https://wargamesatlantic.com/collections/classic-fantasy/products/guards
(https://wargamesatlantic.com/cdn/shop/files/CityGuard_2048x2048.jpg?v=1738893254)
https://wargamesatlantic.com/collections/classic-fantasy/products/villagers
(https://wargamesatlantic.com/cdn/shop/files/FullGroup_2048x2048.jpg?v=1738893256)
They look really lovely. At least the villager set is something for me to get for sure, at the guard set I am more interested at all the bits but the bodies. Those guard will surely fit into some Warhammer setting too. Sometimes a positive surprise what they are producing :-*
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They’re the plastics for the new Grey for Now Games’ game Guards of Traitors Toll. I was tempted by the preorder just for the plastic sets. Thank you for the link I was interested in how the sprues would look; the guards look good, the villager sprues aren’t the clearest image but I’m hopeful.
Andrew
BeneathALeadMountain
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Ah, I saw the thread about the game, yes. I was already wondering why they felt so familiar to me, some days my brain is just refusing to make the connections lol
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Oooh the extra bits on that sprue. Nice to see.
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Those are very nice! Love the guard, villagers look useful too.
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Yep, these could be the most successful "generic" minis for a ton of games - including D&D, etc. for those willing to build/paint, etc.
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I really like these!
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I ordered both sets, can't wait to mix and match.
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I was seriously sick last week, so I pre-ordered the game set (also, friends intend to play it, so...). Verymuch looking forward to these kits.
Yep, these could be the most successful "generic" minis for a ton of games - including D&D, etc. for those willing to build/paint, etc.
Indeed. I think that WA are at their strongest when they do what plastic works for: generic stuff everybody needs. These should also go great with all sorts of North Star's kits. And everything else really. I hate the term "golden age" to describe the state of wargaming, because it couldn't be further from the truth, but I'll say that currently we're pretty spoilt with very good fantasy plastic kits.
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These are great looking figures.
Didn’t WA just announce a different set of medieval peasants too?
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They did. It’s part of their medieval offerings aimed at Barons War and similar games. It’s kind of a feudal levy set - not sure if it includes any non-combat equipment options (although those would be fairly easy to kitbash).
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Yeah, the Baron's War line is Foot Knights, Foot Serjeants, and armed Peasants. Nice kits.
Similarly Victrix is putting out some absolutely gorgeous Crusader-era kits.
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The town guards look fairly typical of a lot of medieval fantasy (looks like a blend of 14th to 16th century clothes, arms and armour). But the villagers look a bit different, several of them look more victorian than medieval.
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The town guards look fairly typical of a lot of medieval fantasy (looks like a blend of 14th to 16th century clothes, arms and armour). But the villagers look a bit different, several of them look more victorian than medieval.
Yeah, I noticed that too. Surely there's enough options in there to get rid of that look too, if one elects so. :)
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But the villagers look a bit different, several of them look more victorian than medieval.
it's a Pratchett blend, it really started to seep in with the Discworld adaptations.
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In fairness to WA, they do describe them as 'fantasy townsfolk' and not 'medieval townsfolk'.
If you're wanting to use them as medievals then you pays your money and you takes your chances.
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Yeah, they look good - and the anachronistic mix is very 'generic fantasy'.
It goes back to Tolkien at least (certainly Howard and probably Dunsany before that): in Middle-earth, you have pocket-watches, eighteenth-century-style inns (Bree does not read as medieval!) and Edwardian squires alongside warriors straight from the Bayeux Tapestry. In the Hyborian age, you have Renaissance-style arms and armour alongside ancient and early-medieval stuff. And so on.
So these look absolutely perfect for generic fantasy.
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Both sets look eminently useful and the figures are looking really nice too. The guards would be perfect henchmen for dungeon crawls, and the villagers can, well, village.
Hopefully they're largely interchangeable with Frostgrave, Oathmark and Fireforge kits, because thay would make possibilties truly endless :)
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Loving all the spares/bits on the villagers sprues.
Thinking the guard would make good militia for empire city states
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Yeah, the Baron's War line is Foot Knights, Foot Serjeants, and armed Peasants. Nice kits.
Similarly Victrix is putting out some absolutely gorgeous Crusader-era kits.
It is a shame none of them scale well with other ranges. if you take the Fireforge/Oathmark/Gripping Beast/ Older plastcs from WGF as the standard, Victrix guys are a bit bigger and Baron's War are a bit smaller. Noticeably different enough to make me take a pass on them.
The recent Zombie kit WGA did really makes me sad. They are a midge smaller than other kits. They made a variety of helmets and heads, and I tried them on WGA late Romans and they are tiny!
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Both of these sets are really great and so useful. They would have been a great asset back in my D&D playing days. I'll still probably get them just to make and paint and I'm sure I'll find a use for them. Great work WA.