I posted this, in response to a suggestion for more charging cavalry poses, but thought it deserves its own heading as well, in case any manufacturers out there are looking to do something different, in any scale.
These multi-figure packs would be perfect for one-on-one, or other battles, at either tournament, or in the field, and I suspect that due to their varied and dynamic poses, would make for great figure dioramas too.
Ideally, for me, the various pose variety would be superb for representing one-on-one combatants where you don't want to place chits on the table. Instead, you would simply choose your next action by secretly selecting your fighter's pose (revealing them at the same time), while your opponent does the same, and then compare the results to determine if any blows are struck home, and if so, how effective they are.
There may be more, or different poses required, depending upon the rules system used, but the ones proposed below are a decent start for such a system, for individual combat, and/or for small groups of men fighting one another.
"My suggestion is for matching troops in full plate, on foot, with swords, polearms, hammers, flails, maces, holy water sprinklers, etc., in various dynamic fighting poses as well, for gaming in medieval tournaments, or to use on the tabletop for small battles, dioramas, etc., too.
Ideally, I could go with about four to six different poses for each man/weapon type, to swap them out for the aforementioned combat, in order to add a bit of interest to my games, e.g. normal strike pose – forehand, normal strike pose – backhand, heavy blow windup, parrying, dodging, thrusting, off-balance and defending, charging, on knees trying to deflect a blow, wounded and on the ground/dead, etc., too. That way, you wouldn't need chits for gameplay to represent what your figure is doing each round".
Again, these would be very useful for small, one-on-one combat games, and/or group battles, dioramas, etc. Of course, they could be used for larger armies as well, for the front line troop poses too.
Think medieval/renaissance gladiator-like, medieval tournaments, either one-on-one, or in small groups, as was historically done. They'd also be useful for skirmishes, castle wall or gate breakthroughs, rear-guard combat to protect the baggage train, etc.
As mentioned, I'd be happy to see these in any scale.
