"Will Perry soldiers work with GW Empire soldiers?" Topic

Hi all. We have recently been playing Renaissance in "Leonardo's Era" using some GW steam tanks and "land rockets" etc. I was hoping to boost my troop level with Perry miniatures foot troops from their War of Roses. All of my troops are currently GW Empire knights, gunners and foot-soldiers, so will they fit together? What is your opinion?

Depends on your tolerance. I have some various Landsknecht figures that seems like they might match better if I used the taller bases, but I hate obvious figure bases. I want my figures to blend into the table surface rather than staniing on a plinth, so my Foundry are on steel bases

The GW are bigger in my opnion. I would go with all GW or all Perry. Old Glory has nice range for these also, but again I would not mix with GW.

Yeah, the GW figs will look big next to the Perry ones. Especially the hands. I have a lot of tolerance for this but I don't think I'd even mix them very readily. In different units I wouldn't think it would be that much of a problem but right next to each other on the same base they might look weird.

They are too differently sized to be able to swap parts easily, I think.

Thanks folks!

My friend has a ton of 14th/15th century based for Hail Caesar, and has liberally used GW plastics (monopose Bretonnian archers, etc) mixed in with Perry and Foundry and even Old Glory and you cannot even see them once a whole unit is painted, let alone tell the microdifferences in scale at a distance of a few feet.

Here's some pics – you can see some GW figs in many of these units.

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Yes, depends on your tolerance – once painted and mixed in a unit or fielded as separate units you may not notice.

And yes, too differently sized to be able to swap parts. I bought some GW parts to convert my Perry's and ended up having to chop parts of the arms off so they don't lok too long:

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GW figures manufactured in the 1990's are more compatible with the new plastic Perry figures, but the more recent GW plastics are not. If you want to supplement the variety of GW available, you can try the HYW and later 15th century figures available from Front Rank, but these are pricier than Perry or Old Glory.

Current GW Empire is very chunky

And also imo way worse than the old plastics.

Pic related, current gw vs perry

Here are some Mordheim warbands I made with a mix of GW Empire parts and Perry WOTR parts…they work for me but your mileage may vary.

I picked some GW "Dogs of War" heads from eBay to mix in with some plastic Perries. They at least seem to work ok. On LAF "Captain Blood" used a couple of Mantic Ghoul heads in one vignette (The Towton Tap) that seemed to work pretty well in that instance.

I've read that the metal heads the Perries make to go with their plastic sets are a bit oversize so I think it depends upon what you are used to and find acceptable. Obviously arms like a gorilla on a Perry body probably wouldn't be good.

There is a post on my blog about using the Perry plastics with Warhammer Empire figures.

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Hey Albino Squirrel,

Thanks for the very thorough review. That was helpful!

Cheers,
Peter

I'm currently painting an Charles V era Imperial Spanish (or Caroline Imperialist for you FoGR players) and I've got old GW 'empire' figures scattered through my units. Hell, one of the Tercios is going to consist of Pirazzo's Lost legion figures.

I've been collecting figures here and there at flea markets for quite a while. I think the mass of the infantry will be foundry Landesknects, but there is everything from hichcliffe to essex to redoubt to ral partha to I think Dixon and even some really ancient citadel role playing figures.

Real people aren't the same size, so it doesn't bother me any. YMMV.