Wargames Atlantic 10mm Samurai

[pieface paul]

https://wargamesatlantic.com/blogs/news/introducing-grand-battle-scale
I quite fancy getting hold of a couple of boxes.

[jambo1]

Very interesting, may just be what I need to finally do a samurai project.

[macsen wledig]

oh gawd...not another period to get sucked into....

[fred]

Good to see these - more 10mm is always good and a new plastic range is uncommon to say the least!

I’m fairly interested in these, but I already have a large painted metal Pendraken army so will want to see how these size up in comparison. It may be like the Victrix ‘12mm’ that are about the same height as Pendraken and Pithead 10mm but are much more slender.

I do like the way WA have painted the Samuari - my Ashugauri painted up quickly and easily but the Samuari rather stalled due to trying to paint too much detail into their armour.

The Pendraken range is worth a look - it contains quite a few more units than WA (monks, peasants, ninja, buildings etc) https://www.pendraken.co.uk/10mm-renaissance-16th-feudal-japanese

[iPaint]

From what they’ve shown with the calipers these should mix in really well with Pendraken.

I’m less interested in the Samurai though, as the way they’ve been sculpted in shoulder to shoulder rows will not be as flexible given what I’m looking to model. Had they been spaced out from one another better I’d be more interested.

Curious when or if we’ll see a command set for banners and unit leaders as those are missing and vital for the period.

~iPaint

[pieface paul]

Here's your command set for banners and unit leaders...

https://wargamesatlantic.com/blogs/news/grand-battle-scale-coming-up-next

I'm excited about their 10mm Agincourt range too but that is a different forum.

[jon_1066]

That is great news

These look perfect for big Sengoku period warfare.  The command figures will be great for creating sonaes.  I'm thinking of picking some up and basing up sonaes with the foot troops  commanders and flags then having the missile troops and cavalry separate.  If each sonae was 100 mm by 50 mm deep you could add two missile kumi each 50 by 25 mm and two cavalry kumi 50 by 25.  These can then maneuevre relative to the infantry to recreate some of the tactical flow of the battle.  Also later and earlier gun or bow heavy armies can be swapped out without swapping all the infantry as well.  Likewise more or less cavalry.

I'm going to use the arguing when ... rules with some suitable adaptions for Sengoku warfare.

[wkeyser]

Anyone know who they size up with the old AIM 10mm Range?

Thanks

[AndrewBeasley]

Just watched the review below on YouTube and it raised a few 'worries':

1) The cavalry looks larger than the mounted metals (enough to bother me).
2) The spears (Yari I assume) are so fragile they would not get on my table.

Not seen a comparison between WA and Pendraken foot yet - hunting YouTube later.


https://youtu.be/dMb4m6LPbTw?si=2LY8lj_3FfUg1IZo

[fred]

Really handy video - shame he only compared with Pendraken cavalry.

Pendraken horses do often come up a bit small compared to some other 10mm ranges


Also how many adverts is typical on YouTube? I must have had 5 pairs of ads in this 15min video.

[AndrewBeasley]

Really handy video - shame he only compared with Pendraken cavalry.
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Found a few pics showing the plastic are exactly 10mm from the bottom of the foot to the eye level but no idea about the Pendraken yet https://wargamesatlantic.com/blogs/news/introducing-grand-battle-scale


[quote author=fred link=topic=145893.msg1873341#msg1873341 date=1724487567]...Also how many adverts is typical on YouTube? I must have had 5 pairs of ads in this 15min video.


I'll not ask how you've upset Google - that's ridiculous and was not that bad for me!

[Freelancer]

I love how WA justify their choice of 10mm over 15mm using Bryan Ansell's quote about why he dislikes 15mm... except he was justifying his 28mm range, not a smaller scale.

I'll be interesting to see how these scale with Warlord Games epic series of miniatures. If they are comparable they would add the range of options.

[fred]

I don’t think they scale to Warlord epic - they look like the scale to other existing 10mm ranges, such as Pendraken or Warmaster.