Had a good look at the new plastic Victrix Athenian Hoplites

[greatescapegames]

Looking pretty nice:
http://www.greatescapegames.co.uk/clash-of-empires/stu-blog/victrix-athenians

[carlos marighela]

Legit post or just spam? Fine line, ain't it?

[Chairface]

Legit! It was a great review of the figs. I love getting a preview of the sprues. They look great by the way. A bit dissapointed by the lack of head options, but what can you do?

[Engel]

Lack of headoption you say. I think its all in their plan, so you have to box of spartans and a box of thebans and a box of mercenarys.

Thanks for the review. Looks promissing.

[Prof.Witchheimer]

nice review, thanks, will get them, apart from gamings Greeks lots of other useful options there.

[Christian]

Nice looking figures. Size comparisons (my obsession) are forthcoming, I hope?

[Captain Blood]

I really like the look of them.
Yes, perhaps a little disappointing to have only 8 head options - the Perry medieval infantry boxes have twice that number. But no doubt the alternative heads will feature in the three further variant hoplite boxes.
The question in my mind is whether the only difference will be the heads, or whether the coming sets will also include different bodies, arms and possibly even shields and weapons?
Truthfully, £20 these days is the price of a round of drinks, so I think I can stretch to one of the other sets for more head options in due course...
I'll probably wait until they bring out the mercenary hoplites though, as I'm not a great fan of either the Spartan or Theban type helmet. Just give me a Corinthian every time... 

[Sir Barnaby Hammond-Rye]

I like that the shields are not attached to the arms - a downside to the Immortal Hoplites, IMO.

I would like to see some scale comparison shots.

[greatescapegames]

I'll do a size comparison later tonight.

[Svennn]

Like the good Captain I prefer Corinthian helmets and I would like to have been able to make units up of more uniformed troops, it looks like I will struggle with the head options. They may be more historically correct but I fancy a bit of Hollywood.

[Captain Blood]

Exactly so 

[fastolfrus]

I prefer Corinthians too, I have a reproduction one next to the fieplace, shining copper with a red and white horsehair plume.

[Captain Blood]

Somewhere I have some photos of rows and rows of the blighters I took in the museum at Olympia. Beautiful Corinthian helmets.
And they are all TINY. I mean - like, wouldn't fit a present-day 7 year old.
Now I know people have got much bigger and taller down the centuries (well, the millennia), but I reckon the average butch and beefy ancient Greek hoplite must have been barely 1.5m / 5ft tall and weighed about 40 kilos / six stone.

[fantail]

These look good but  I agree with Chairface, 8 heads is a bit poor. I would prefer not to have one in eight bare headed guys. Perhaps the Mercenary box with fix that by having 9 or 10 heads. Still 48 figures for 23 pounds is good value.

[midismirnoff]

I like the details of the linothorax being over crispy. So I'll have to "paint" the pteruges, and not to "draw" the pteruges, as it happend on the Immortal adventure.