nice news

[poilu]

According to the french distributor of Great War miniatures Dave and Aly are going to do french and american figures for the late world war.

The whole range is already sculpted.

best regards

patrick

[Plynkes]

I bet they'll be lovely figures. Shame it's going over ground already covered by Brigade. Still, more Great War figures, shouldn't moan about that! Knowing GWM, I bet there will be lots of stuff in there I will see and go "I want that!" even though I don't collect Late War French and US.

[Poliorketes]

Any chances they'll do russians as well?

[Helen]

Thankyou for this lovely news.  

Helen

[Prof.Witchheimer]

Any chances they'll do russians as well?

I really hope that. Actually that's what I don't understand at all, we have lots of miniatures for Russian Civil War and tons of all sorts of WW1 figures but no WW1 Russians  

[Plynkes]

Yes, and a more comprehensive Austro-Hungarian range for them to fight. What is there now, two or so packs from Renegade?

I guess they don't sell. That's the rub, I suppose.


Gamers seem to be such lemmings and suckers for fads, just look at this whole FoG thing. Some kind of Great War Eastern Front buzz needs to be set off somehow. A movie, a new set of rules with lots of hype, and a Copplestone range. Something like that.

The dedicated followers of fashion would soon jump on the bandwagon, if told to by the Gaming Gods in the right way.

[Le matou rouge]

The dedicated followers of fashion would soon jump on the bandwagon, if told to by the Gaming Gods in the right way.

You really got me, Pl'Kink's boy, but don't start a Kontroversy about Where have all the Good (God ?) times gone... :wink:

meow,
Kinky Matt  :oops:

[PeteMurray]

I always wondered why the Alpine and Adriatic fronts weren't more popular. Arditi! Gebirgsjaegers! Alpini! Blowing the freaking tops off mountains! Hauling guns up the sides of cliffs with rope and willpower! Precarious cable cars! Assaults in driving snow storms! Rommel!

Maybe the impending GW WWI rules will kick start some interest in these periods as well.

[Plynkes]

...why the Alpine...

Building the terrain. For me, at any rate.


You don't have that excuse with the lower Isonzo front though (the Carso plateau and all that), so it beats me. Just not well-known enough I guess.

[PeteMurray]

Building the terrain. For me, at any rate.

Oh. Good point.

No, wait, it isn't. People game Gallipoli. Gallipoli is rock-strewn hills, too.

You don't have that excuse with the lower Isonzo front though (the Carso plateau and all that), so it beats me. Just not well-known enough I guess.

Right! And karst is fun to model. You can put damn near anything on the table and it's likely part of karst geography. Streams? Sure! Caves? Sure! Big rock piles? Gnarled little trees and scrubby brush? Sure! Vine-draped jungle ruins? Okay, maybe not those.

I suspect it's some sort of fear of playing Italians.

[Plynkes]

A rock-strewn hill isn't quite the same thing as an Alp!  

One's gaming table would end up looking like that scene from Close Encounters where Richard Dreyfuss bungs all that mud on his kitchen table.


Karst is an odd word. Is it Slovene for sausage?

[WillieB]

Belgians is what we want!. Dog carts, funny hats, lancers, dragoons, very simple terrain- just flood any terrain you've got- French speaking officers commanding Flemish speaking soldiers and none of them knows what the other is talking about.

Prejudiced? Me? Nah.....

[PeteMurray]

A rock-strewn hill isn't quite the same thing as an Alp!  

One's gaming table would end up looking like that scene from Close Encounters where Richard Dreyfuss bungs all that mud on his kitchen table.

You say that as if it were a bad thing.

I realize an Alp isn't the same thing as a rock-strewn hill. But you can selectively compress an Alp on the gaming table into something like a Gallipoli. You just have to convince yourself you're a mile up in the sky and it's a bit chillier.

Karst is an odd word. Is it Slovene for sausage?

Yep. A traditional Slovenian sausage made of dolomite with a well-interpenetrating water table subject to upthrust from lower layers. Usually the Karst you get in the grocery stores around here are made of limestone instead. I know it's cheaper, but it doesn't taste the same.

[Le matou rouge]

Belgians is what we want!. Dog carts, funny hats, lancers, dragoons, very simple terrain- just flood any terrain you've got- French speaking officers commanding Flemish speaking soldiers and none of them knows what the other is talking about.

But you can already get almost all of them from Battle Honours and now from Brigade models too :

http://www.brigademodels.co.uk/Frames/GW28/index.html




meow,
Matt

[WillieB]

I know.
Bought them at Crisis last year and they are gorgeous. No dog carts however...
Just kidding. Well, not about the terrain.
Worked for a few years in the Karel Koggestreet. Never felt entirely safe.