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Miniatures Adventure => Age of Myths, Gods and Empires => Topic started by: Rhoderic on March 15, 2008, 06:50:03 PM

Title: More hard plastic Ancients on the way
Post by: Rhoderic on March 15, 2008, 06:50:03 PM

Apparently "Fat Bloke" of White Dwarf fame is one of the people behind this new initiative:

http://theminiaturespage.com/news/111510/

Really cool to see yet another new line of plastic historical miniatures hit the market. It's "just" Romans for now, but I hope they do other periods later. Someone needs to do plastic multipart pirates, or something!

Title: More hard plastic Ancients on the way
Post by: Vanvlak on March 15, 2008, 08:07:51 PM

Interesting :)
I gave up on White Dwarf once old Paul Sawyer left - he seemed a nice chap.
And this range is good news for me :)

Title: More hard plastic Ancients on the way
Post by: wolfgangbrooks on March 16, 2008, 02:35:05 AM

Wait, ANOTHER line of Roman and Celt plastics? What the hell.

Title: More hard plastic Ancients on the way
Post by: pixelgeek on March 16, 2008, 02:39:43 AM

Quote from: "wolfgangbrooks"

Wait, ANOTHER line of Roman and Celt plastics? What the hell.

Imperial Romans as opposed to Caesarian Romans... but yes, more plastic Celts and Romans.

Title: More hard plastic Ancients on the way
Post by: Heldrak on March 16, 2008, 06:51:59 AM

One does wonder at the wisdom of 2 competing hard plastic Roman lines from different companies coming out at roughly the same time...

That being said, from what I can see, I prefer this latest line to the rather squat & stubby previous line- they seem better proportioned & more gracefully-posed than the others.

Title: More hard plastic Ancients on the way
Post by: Operator5 on March 16, 2008, 12:39:51 PM

It's the same as with most things. Everyone knew about Osprey's new game coming out so they thought it would be a good time to jump into the game as well. Between that and WHA there were two large scale games with ancients. I'm sure to many it seemed like a good time to tap that market.

Title: More hard plastic Ancients on the way
Post by: Lowtardog on March 16, 2008, 12:48:28 PM

I see the new EIR as a popular and sensible choice for a first off as it has always been the popular army for WAB with the army lists being in the original book alongside celts though the Caesarian Romans fought celts more.

I always think of Romans being the "Space Marines" of historical gaming, a bit of an uber army

Title: More hard plastic Ancients on the way
Post by: wolfgangbrooks on March 16, 2008, 08:13:12 PM

"Everyone knew about Osprey's new game coming out so they thought it would be a good time to jump into the game as well."

I don't think it's got to do with copycating. Plans on both lines were probably being made at the same time, and Romans are an obvious place to start for ancients. (Just like it's easier to make money on WWII gaming than with Falklands War games.) I think the coincidence stems more from tech developments. These two aren't the only start ups producing plastics.

Title: More hard plastic Ancients on the way
Post by: DrunkenSamurai on March 17, 2008, 04:26:01 AM

The new plastics will actually inspire me to build a WAB EIR army and a Celt army.  I have resited this for along time for sever al reasons.  The first id that the Foundry EIR are my fav but they are way too expensive.  The second it that you need a ton of Celts for a WAB army.  Plastics look as if they will solve both of these issues.

Title: More hard plastic Ancients on the way
Post by: JollyBob on March 17, 2008, 10:03:15 AM

Actually, not interested in the Romans, but if the Celts look ok I may be tempted to get a box, depending on the variety of contents.

I've been thinking about doing a Celtic warband for PigWars, or maybe some Slaine-type games, or maybe just for the hell of it.

The Renegade Celts nearly had me, but if the plastics are good enough, then I only need shell out for one box and a couple of metal characters.

I'll be watching this with interest.  :)

Title: More hard plastic Ancients on the way
Post by: fastolfrus on March 17, 2008, 11:35:55 PM

If the plastic Celts include chariots or cavalry that would be very interesting - I've played ancients before but come from the "old school" generation where armies fielding chariots should have large numbers of them.
So in 15mm we have Egyptian (about 90 chariots), Hittite (only 30 chariots) and Sumerian (again only 30), but in 15mm they don't really have much visual impact in squadrons of less than 10.
But in 25mm large numbers would look spectacular.