New TYW Personality greens from TAG

[Captain Blood]

Nick Collier's Thirty Years War personality figures for The Assault Group are just getting better and better...

There are now 6 of these sets, each comprising a mounted personality plus a mounted aide (or standard bearer) plus another aide or attendant on foot.

The personality figures are good, but the accompanying characters are just brilliant little caricatures in their own right - so versatile for everything from The Three Musketeers to Cyrano de Bergerac!








More pics of new greens at:

http://www.theassaultgroup.com/workbench/index.php

And on TAG's boards at:

http://www.theassaultgroup.co.uk/boards/forumdisplay.php?f=5

[Rhoderic]

I can't access your second link (says I'm not logged in) but the greens in the first link are every bit as good as you say. 'Tis a golden age indeed for swashbuckling miniatures.

[Furt]

Awesome looking greens! Very useful.

How do TAG figures compare size wise to say Foundry Pirates - their Ottoman Turks could fit nicely in with my Barbary Corsairs.

[Mancha]

Is the guy on foot suffering the aftereffects of syphilis?

[Captain Blood]

How do TAG figures compare size wise to say Foundry Pirates - their Ottoman Turks could fit nicely in with my Barbary Corsairs.

Pretty much the same size as Foundry.

TAG's Renaissance range is huge, beautifully done, and expanding fast all the time.
They are also fairly good value for money compared to some.

In view of which, I can't quite figure out why they don't get more airplay on forums like this one.
And no, I don't have shares, I just admire their ambition, creativity and the quality of their product - at least as far as this range is concerned.

Is the guy on foot suffering the aftereffects of syphilis?

  You'd certainly think so wouldn't you? Or maybe this is indeed Cyrano...

[Poliorketes]

I think he is ment as Cyrano de bergerac

[argsilverson]

Again superb.

Now we need some more civilian types to go with them!

[white knight]

Excellent! I've been meaning to get a few packs from the range for my Three Musketeers project and these will definitely be among them.

[Rhoderic]

TAG's Renaissance range is huge, beautifully done, and expanding fast all the time.
They are also fairly good value for money compared to some.

In view of which, I can't quite figure out why they don't get more airplay on forums like this one.

I think it's because all things considered, TAG is more of a straight massed-battle wargamers' range, as opposed to a skirmish- or adventure-oriented one. For instance, I've been wanting to get some of their Krakow Militia Musketeers for a long time (they're certainly flairful), but I'm bothered by how the "at porte" poses are all in one pack and the "firing" poses in another. I suppose it's useful to TYW gamers who need lots of them as rank-and-filers and want to be able to select their ratio of front-rankers to rear-rankers. Less useful though to swashbuckling gamers who might only want a few and want them to be in varied poses.

They also very rarely do anything beyond rank-and-filers and command figures. I was talking in another thread about how companies that supplement their ranges with some "peripheral" figures (ie. interesting-looking civilians and stuff like that) might get noticed more because of it.

Nothing of which is meant as a criticism of TAG. I just mean their Renaissance range is better suited to straight wargaming than adventure-oriented gaming. This is seemingly deliberate on TAG's side, so all is as it should be. Just explains why they don't get mentioned so often in a Swashbuckling forum, maybe.

[Regulator]

Who is this? Gustav Adolf?

[Captain Blood]

Who is this? Gustav Adolf?

Yes, it's supposed to be Gustavus-A.
Apparently he was short sighted, so one of his aides is modelled carrying a long telescope!

[Regulator]

Who is this? Gustav Adolf?

Yes, it's supposed to be Gustavus-A.
Apparently he was short sighted, so one of his aides is modelled carrying a long telescope!

Thank you very much!

[Gluteus Maximus]

For some reason, I've never really got into the TYW, which is probably why I've never seen these figures before 

I have always been fascinated by the ECW, however, and I can see many uses for these figures with little if any conversion. If they are roughly compatible with the Foundry figures, then that is fantastic. I already mix them with the Perrys', so hopefully these will fit in too

Thanks for the links, Cap'n!

[Hammers]

Who is this? Gustav Adolf?

Yes, it's supposed to be Gustavus-A.
Apparently he was short sighted, so one of his aides is modelled carrying a long telescope!

Oh!  I've had Gustav II Adolf's blood stained moose skin jacket burnt into my retina since I first saw it on display on the Royal Museum when I was 7.

[Captain Blood]

Oh!  I've had Gustav II Adolf's blood stained moose skin jacket burnt into my retina since I first saw it on display on the Royal Museum when I was 7.

That's touching real history for you.

Oliver Cromwell's cast iron hat (shaped like a real mid-C17th hat, but designed to save him from an assassin's bullet) had much the same effect on me when I saw it in the Huntingdon Museum, when I was about 10 years old.

That and his death mask.

These things stay with you.