Empress Miniatures Modern Aussies

[Paul @ Empress Miniatures]

28mm Ultra Modern Aussies created for the recent kickstarter.











Hope you like,
Paul

[Elk101]

These look really nice. I'd bet you could do an equally nice job on some modern VPA or JDF! (sorry!)

Have you ever considered doing some Musorians as opponents? I have been asking about figures suitable for VPA in another thread and it was suggested that Musorians could be a good VPA stand in. There might be quite a bit of interest in such a range.

[Marine0846]

Sweet looking figures.
I need to paint up the Empress figures I have.
But.. another order for these, No must not buy.
My birthday is coming up.

[Elbows]

Great minis...I hope Empress embraces a great range of modern soldiers.  A ton of potential out there.

[Elk101]

Great minis...I hope Empress embraces a great range of modern soldiers.  A ton of potential out there.

Definitely! Looking at the kickstarter comments and discussions on forums (fora?) it seemed that there were a lot of people looking at near future 'what if' type projects rather than near past or current conflict. It may be that the Call of Duty and Battlefield series' modern settings have got people interested? The thing I've noticed with this being my first foray into moderns is the lack of choice when it comes to opposition, especially if you don't want to play Afghanistan or similar settings. I know (now) that Eureka do Musorians but they become very expensive to order from the UK. It would be great to see some opposition for both the PLA and the western nations. Of course as a dabbler in this period I know I'm not well placed to comment (but I am listening to guys who seem to know their stuff, like Carlos).

[Paul @ Empress Miniatures]

The reason we did PLA and 'Western' moderns was so that gamers could fight ultra modern balanced forces against each other as opposed to just fighting terrorist insurrectionist types.

However we already do a small range of insurrectionist (Musorians) and plan to add more to the range in the future.

[NurgleHH]

I hope you do the russians, germans and rest of europe first. Will help to play "cold war gone hot" Part 2.

[Elk101]

The reason we did PLA and 'Western' moderns was so that gamers could fight ultra modern balanced forces against each other as opposed to just fighting terrorist insurrectionist types.

However we already do a small range of insurrectionist (Musorians) and plan to add more to the range in the future.

Please don't take that as criticism in any way, the current ranges are brilliant! You are a victim of your own success as now we've seen these we want more!

[Paul @ Empress Miniatures]

Please don't take that as criticism in any way, the current ranges are brilliant! You are a victim of your own success as now we've seen these we want more!

No we didn't see it as critisism at all:D

Just did not know if you had looked at our moderns ranges. Also worth checking is the Chechnya range which are in effect cold weather Musorians. Useful for the Ukraine as well 

We have been playing Afghanistan games for years now and it has delivered some great games but we came to the conclusion that we wanted to do something a bit bigger with both players/ sides able to equal each other in equipment as opposed to what are in effect modern colonial games.

Thus the Pacific arena with China against the Pacific Allies.....and the future which will be Russia dominated. Especially as we have lots of the vehicles.

[Elk101]

Thanks Empress. I will almost certainly be ordering some insurgents as they went on my list very soon after my PLA arrived! I'm interested in South East Asia as a setting, hence the interest in VPA! I will be very keen on seeing what happens with the Russian KS too (that's where the JDF could potentially come in again, though the Russians appear to be keen to provide more eastern European scenarios).

I've said this before but your recent KS was excellent and hopefully introduced a new audience to modern figure ranges, myself included. 

[NurgleHH]

No we didn't see it as critisism at all:D
.....and the future which will be Russia dominated. Especially as we have lots of the vehicles.

Can you give us moreinformation about date and content of the kickstarter? Russian and what more??? Maybe some buildings?

[commissarmoody]

I believe they said some thing about Russians, Germans and maybe other eastern European nations.

[Mick_in_Switzerland]

I would like to see the next Kickstarter with Russians.  I also want some more "generic soviet equipped troops" to cover a variety of less well equipped forces such as Middle Eastern and  African armies and the former soviet states.