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[Commercial] Mega Ancients Army and Unit Packs from Fighting 15s
« on: February 19, 2021, 12:21:18 PM »
Fighting 15s announces the release of the first of its new Mega Value Army Packs and Mega Value Unit Packs as part of the restructuring of its 15mm ancients to medievals starter and army sets. Now you can have metal for about the same price as plastic. And to save our typing fingers we're just going to refer to them as Mega Packs from now on.

We're looking ahead to the future of sales, both at wargames shows and in the post-Brexit online market to the EU. Our belief is that the only way ahead is to provide better-priced starter army and booster unit sets that can be easily handed over at shows, whenever they resume and if ever we are able to attend, or sold to the EU via a marketplace such as eBay that takes care of import VAT for customers. We're not there yet: building up the new range of packs is the first step.

Creating these packs also allows us to provide packs that are immediately more useful when creating armies for a number of mainstream ancients rules sets, such as Art de la Guerre, Field of Glory, and Mortem et Gloriam, and to provide more relevant names for figures for modern rules' ancients army lists. For example, stopping the Huns hiding under the more generic Asiatic Nomads label.

First up are the Late Romans and the Huns. Both are excellent ranges of sculpts by Josef Ochmann, first released under the Hobby Products name and a mainstay of the Gladiator Miniatures range for a number of years. We're working through these ranges to redo the moulds to restore the crispness of the original castings, and will add new photographs when possible.

Our first two army packs are:

MEG001 Late Roman Mega Starter Pack
MEG010 Hunnic Mega Starter Pack

Both are priced at £39.95 including VAT. The Late Roman pack contains 128 equivalent pieces; the Hunnic pack 132 equivalent pieces. A piece in Fighting 15s' reckoning is one foot figure, one horse, or one separate rider; a one-part mounted figure or a separate horse with rider count as two equivalent pieces. Anyway, that works out at about 31p inc VAT per equivalent piece. Yes, for metal.

Our first unit packs are:

MEG002 Late Roman Legionaries and Archers
MEG003 Late Roman Auxiliaries and Archers
MEG004 Late Roman Cataphract Cavalry
MEG005 Late Roman Equites with light spear
MEG006 Late Roman Equites Mauri with javelin
MEG011 Hunnic Noble Cavalry
MEG012 Hunnic Cavalry
MEG013 Hunnic Horse Archers
MEG014 Hunnic Allies - Gepid Cavalry

Mega Unit Packs are £12 each including VAT. Packs contain 32 foot figures or 16 mounted figures. That works out at 37.5p for a foot figure or 75p for a mounted figure including the horse. Our standard packs in the Gladiator Miniatures range by comparison work out at 42.5p for a foot figure and 85p for a mounted figure.

The unit packs are intended to provide easy boosters for the army packs, all backed by the existing range of Gladiator Miniatures to provide command figures and small add-ons to adjust unit sizes.

Our new Mega Packs are available only from Fighting 15s direct. We're not putting them through our agents because the substantial discounting to make them as cheap as some plastics means there isn't the margin for them to go through the trade. There's a frank admission for you. :) You'll get no useless sprues of plastic, nor fancy artwork, just figures separated by code into gripseal bags. Our existing army pack formulations will remain in the shop for now, but we fully expect to replace all of them with Mega Packs. My brain hurts each time I sit down and work these out, so there will be more releases once my throbbing brain has recovered.

The new packs are available in the Fighting 15s shop now: https://www.fighting15s.com
« Last Edit: February 19, 2021, 06:29:21 PM by Fighting15s »
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Re: [Commercial] Mega Ancients Army and Unit Packs from Fighting 15s
« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2021, 10:58:09 AM »
I've now added variants that suit Art de la Guerre:

AWA001 Hunnic ADLG Army Pack
AWA002 Late Roman ADLG Army Pack
AWB001 ADLG Booster: Late Roman or Hunnic Allies - Gothic Infantry
AWB002 ADLG Booster: Late Roman Infantry

Booster packs contain 32 infantry, the Hunnic army contains 60 mounted figures, and the Late Roman army 64 foot and 31 mounted figures. The army packs are designed to form the basis of a 200 point army for Art de la Guerre. Prices are £39.95 for the ADLG Army packs and £12 for booster packs, including VAT. They're all 15mm figures, in this instance the wonderful Josef Ochmann sculpts.

Army packs typically represent a saving of more than 20% compared with standard pack prices; booster packs typically represent a saving of more than 10% compared with standard pack prices. All of them make metals available for about the price of some manufacturers' plastics.

« Last Edit: March 03, 2021, 11:02:46 AM by Fighting15s »

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Re: [Commercial] ADLG Mega Army and Unit Packs from Fighting 15s
« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2021, 12:40:26 PM »


A stack of 15mm Meso-American armies and booster packs suitable for Art de la Guerre (ADLG) are now available from Fighting 15s. All the packs have been designed in co-operation with ADLG guru madaxeman.com to provide the starting point and variations for a viable 200-point army using figures from our Gladiator Miniatures line.

Priced at £39.95 for the ADLG Army packs and £12 for ADLG Booster packs, the releases are backed by Gladiator Miniatures' existing standard packs of infantry and command figures. The army packs put the price per foot figure at just over 31p inc VAT.

The codes in the Meso-American ADLG release are as follows:

Army packs
AWA003 Aztec ADLG Army Pack
AWA004 Mayan ADLG Army Pack
AWA005 Tlaxcallan (Texcalan) ADLG Army Pack
AWA006 Mixtec/Zapotec ADLG Army Pack

Booster packs
AWB003 ADLG Booster: Aztec Eagle and Jaguar Knights
AWB004 ADLG Booster: Aztec Arrow Knights
AWB005 ADLG Booster: Aztec Warriors
AWB006 ADLG Booster: Aztec Skirmishers
AWB007 ADLG Booster: Aztec Warrior Priests and Cuachic Veterans
AWB008 ADLG Booster: Mayan Noble Warriors
AWB009 ADLG Booster: Mayan Warriors
AWB010 ADLG Booster: Mayan Missile Troops
AWB011 ADLG Booster: Mayan Command and Nobles
AWB012 ADLG Booster: Tlaxcallan Command and Suit Wearers
AWB013 ADLG Booster: Tlaxcallan Warriors
AWB014 ADLG Booster: Tlaxcallan Archers
AWB015 ADLG Booster: Mixtec/Zapotec Warriors
AWB016 ADLG Booster: Mixtec/Zapotec Missile Troops

Booster packs contain 32 foot figures. Army packs contain 128 foot figures, except the Tlaxcallan army, which contains 130. Prices above include VAT.

A discussion of army list building for the Meso-Americans forms the subject of a recent madaxeman.com podcast, which can be heard at:

https://youtu.be/ACJRwM1V830

Link: https://fighting15s.com/product-category/gladiator-miniatures/mega-packs/adlg-mega-packs/?v=79cba1185463

The Jaguar Knights in the photograph are painted by the very talented Martin Stephenson.
« Last Edit: April 21, 2021, 12:42:37 PM by Fighting15s »

 

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