Warlord (Pro-gloria) plastic Landsknechte

[Von Trinkenessen]

Just seen this on another forum:

http://www.warlordgames.com/new-landsknechts-landsknecht-officers/

https://us-store.warlordgames.com/products/landsknechts-pikemen

Also Max, Gotz and Georg on the Warlord website.

[white knight]

[Timbor]

They do look good, though the lack of an advancing pose is somewhat disappointing. Maybe they are planning a second set with the different pose? As it is, there seems to be limited conversion options with the parts included unless you can match them with other arms... say like GW greatswords or something?

[Codsticker]

They do look good, though the lack of an advancing pose is somewhat disappointing. Maybe they are planning a second set with the different pose?

I wouldn't be suprised to see advancing pike in metal as well as dopplesoldners(sp?) and other variants.

[General Lee]

There were 3 up advancing poses as well. They're not on the sprue though so probably Warlord decided against it. It would have taken 2 sprues or regular infantry and one command frame

[Jerekin]

There is an alarming trend for oversimplifyng plastic figure kits these days.

First Gripping Beast, then Fireforge and now Warlord as well.

I mean come one. Basically 50% of that sprue is rubbish, wtf? More casting channels weren't possible?

Lmfao.

Same with those Napoleon Brit cavalry sets. They could have easily made a hybrid kit, saving tooling time and material cost, while putting the same stuff in  just on sprue of the original size.

Did Renedra hire some new inexperienced staff or have those wargaming companies become popular enough to become evil?

Guess we have to clone the perrys eventually or start playing GW systems again. We live in interesting times, folks.


Cheers,

Jerekin

[Sparrow]

It might be the photo but are those pikes a bit short?

[Timbor]

I have to agree about the amount of stuff on sprue... The sprue pics remind me of the now OOP GW bret plastics that were extremely sparse for the size of the sprue.

[Captain Blood]

Well, I suppose I'll get a box, mainly to kitbash with Perry late medieval stuff, but looking at the sprues, exactly as predicted, the bare minimum pretty much. Thin pickings.
Yes Jerekin, apart from Perry and Victrix, the clear trend amongst plastic manufacturers is now 'include the bare minimum figures and components in a set that we think we can get away with'.

Ah, the great new era of inexpensive, multipart plastic cornucopia didn't last long did it?

 

[Coenus Scaldingus]

Yes Jerekin, apart from Perry and Victrix, the clear trend amongst plastic manufacturers is now 'include the bare minimum figures and components in a set that we think we can get away with'.

The pretty recent Victrix Macedonian pikemen have 3 bodies in identical poses and 8 different heads. These have 6 bodies and 9 heads.  Not to mention that optional gun - guess how many of those the Macedonians have!

[JollyBob]

Well, yeah, they are a bit light on spares and options, but I reckon I will be picking up a box and will be quite happy with the vanilla combination.

Since I'll be using them for a fantasy project with dwarves, ogres and halflings, something a bit less exotic works well with my ideas.

I can also see one box providing almost a whole army for Lion or Dragon Rampant games...

[Captain Blood]

The pretty recent Victrix Macedonian pikemen have 3 bodies in identical poses and 8 different heads. These have 6 bodies and 9 heads.  Not to mention that optional gun - guess how many of those the Macedonians have!

Ah well, I only have Victrix Napoleonic and Ancient Greek sets, and they have a lot of different bodies and components...

[MattW]

Would be nice to see somebody (preferably Warlord, but I'm not fussy) produce resin arms for halberds, handguns, etc.

Nothing worse than gluing metal accessories to plastic.

[Tordenskjold]

Would be nice to see somebody (preferably Warlord, but I'm not fussy) produce resin arms for halberds, handguns, etc.

Nothing worse than gluing metal accessories to plastic.

I feel exactly the opposite, nothing worse than glueing resin bits! They are so terribly brittle.

[Dr. Zombie]

I really like them. I want a huge army of them. So for me they are well suited to bulk out the rank and file. If I only needed 20 it would have been nice with lots of options for hats, weapons and bags. But for 100+ customization is not as important to me.