New Artizan Landsknecht Doppelsoldier packs

[Captain Blood]

Feast your eyes on these boys... 





Sooooooooooo gorgeous...
I'm resisting manfully, but may have to yield...
I've actually no use for them, but I just want to paint them 

[ErikB]

Wow, those look nice.

Please don't stone me to death, I'm just wondering, why not use GW's version? 

Just wondering why Artizan chose to make this line, specifically.

[carlos marighela]

Is that a halberd in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me? Now they just need a complementary range of Spanish with large genitors.

Very nice sculpts but I've always seen landsknechts as an army I would want to paint somewhere after circus clowns and samba schools.

I take it these would match the TAG Spanish?

[Captain Blood]

Please don't stone me to death, I'm just wondering, why not use GW's version? 
Just wondering why Artizan chose to make this line, specifically.

Presumably these are based on historical illustrations whereas the GW Empire stuff is a bit more fanciful / fantastical?

I take it these would match the TAG Spanish?

I doubt it. Mike Owen's stuff is often towards the tall end of '28mm'.
Nick Collier's Renaissance stuff for TAG is deliberately at the small end of '28mm' (he used to do great big 28s for Bicorne and Renegade - which I like cos they're bloody easy to paint - but he / TAG decided the scale creep had gone far enough, and so he recalibrated all his work for TAG down by a few mm... )

[Mr.J]

I'm not being funny but Captain Blood, please don't resist.. I would love to see you paint some of these.
Especially after seeing what you did with those new Perry Plastics!

[Calimero]

... Please don't stone me to death, I'm just wondering, why not use GW's version? ...

Maybe because GW Plastics are more expensive than Artizan’s metal figures?

[carlos marighela]

So it's a range of Landsknechts with no obvious candidates as opposition then? Brilliant.

[archangel1]

So it's a range of Landsknechts with no obvious candidates as opposition then? Brilliant.

Not exactly uncommon, unfortunately.  Still, seeing as the range is still new, give them a chance.  If nothing else, you can still fight a 'Bad War'!

[Furt]

They are indeed beautiful.

The Landskencht have always appealed to me.

[oxiana]

So it's a range of Landsknechts with no obvious candidates as opposition then? Brilliant.

They'll work very nicely as conquistadors against my Incas, I reckon. These are bloody fantastic!

[Lowtardog]

They'll work very nicely as conquistadors against my Incas, I reckon. These are bloody fantastic!

You could certainly mix the odd one in but I wouldnt do a whole force of them to fight the Inca

[Orctrader]

Nice.   

So it's a range of Landsknechts with no obvious candidates as opposition then? Brilliant.

I think the plan is to create opponents too, but I might be wrong.

I bought some of the Pikemen when they first came out.  My only concern is...and I love Artizan figures...the cleaning up process.  I was surprised that brand new castings, ie brand new moulds would take so much cleaning up.  Or is it just me?

[Mad Doc Morris]

Love this range. Bihänder are a very nice - if not too useful - addition. The resting chap is my favorite, so far.
Although I'd wished for more variation than the typical slashing pose. Those greatswords were actually used more like spears with one hand gripping the blade. The possible poses are quite numerous if you look at contemporary illustrations, e.g. in books teaching swordplay.

[ErikB]

So it's a range of Landsknechts with no obvious candidates as opposition then? Brilliant.

One thing at a time.  I'm sure their opponents are in the works.

Though it would make sense to release them and opponents simultaneously, wouldn't it?

[white knight]

Please don't stone me to death, I'm just wondering, why not use GW's version? 

GW's current empire plastic state troops don't look like historical landsknechts anymore, unlike the previous edition. They are also considered bad sculpts, even among the empire players on the Warhammer Empire forum.

Their greatswords are better (though still somewhat more stylised than their historical counterparts) though are known as goldswords due to being one of the most expensive sets.