| Tango01 | 18 Apr 2015 10:40 p.m. PST |
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Puster  | 19 Apr 2015 3:38 a.m. PST |
It would be good if they had made pics of both sides of the sprue, not just turned the pic of one side around… :-) 8 heads are nice, though 5 bow arms for 3 minis seems a bit excessive. I am looking forward to get these into my hands… |
| Griefbringer | 19 Apr 2015 5:17 a.m. PST |
It would be good if they had made pics of both sides of the sprue, not just turned the pic of one side around… If you check the sprue layouts closely, you will spot that they are not identical, but there are actually two different sprues. Since Gripping Beast is about to release two different sets of Arab cavalry (light and heavy), I would presume that the top one is for light cavalry and lower one is for heavy cavalry. As for the five bow arms on the lower sprue, two of them seem to be featuring mail sleeves. |
| Zargon | 19 Apr 2015 6:52 a.m. PST |
Niceeee :) can see these being used in lots of armies. |
| Sigwald | 19 Apr 2015 7:59 a.m. PST |
Griefbringer is correct. They have pics of both sprues and some finished figures on their website now:
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| GurKhan | 19 Apr 2015 9:46 a.m. PST |
Five bow-arms but only three bowcases and quivers? So presumably you're meant to build at least three of the six without archery equipment. Easier to justify than with the light cavalry, who all seem to look like Turks, but I'd have thought the option to do all the heavies as bow-armed ghilman or mamluks would have been useful. |
| Griefbringer | 19 Apr 2015 10:25 a.m. PST |
Five bow-arms but only three bowcases and quivers? So presumably you're meant to build at least three of the six without archery equipment. Not sure what you are aiming at. Each sprue comes with enough parts to make three horses and riders, and includes three bowcases. So you will get a bowcase for each rider. |
| GurKhan | 19 Apr 2015 1:57 p.m. PST |
Of course – I was thinking it was six figures per sprue. |
| Tango01 | 19 Apr 2015 3:01 p.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it boys. Amicalement
Armand |
| Puster | 19 Apr 2015 11:56 p.m. PST |
I actually missed the difference :-) As I deem it unlikely that they will have made two sprues for light cavalry, I assume we see both the heavy and light cav sprue. It looks like there will be a lot of torsos and heads in surplus. Now if I only had a source of cheap legs… |
| Tango01 | 20 Apr 2015 10:42 a.m. PST |
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| Major William Martin RM | 20 Apr 2015 2:15 p.m. PST |
Puster; Now if I only had a source of cheap legs… link They are fairly generic Middle Eastern and you can make 12 figures for $2.49 USD, which is a heck of a deal even if you make civilians/farmers out of them. Since plastic is so easy to work, these could be a good "add" for all those spare GB Arab parts, from the infantry and the cavalry. Bill |
| Dogged | 20 Apr 2015 2:18 p.m. PST |
If you look carefully at both sprues you can make the differences, these being that torsos and some arms in the heavies sprue are armored (they look rough, surely depicting lamellar armour). Hence the discrepance between bow arms and quivers etc. |
| capncarp | 20 Apr 2015 6:21 p.m. PST |
Lovely, well-molded, and not something readily available.
Now, and not to cheapen their outstandingly positive qualities, I immediately expected a camel or two to be in the mix. That would really get my juices juicing.
Perhaps Arab cavalry, Part 2? |
| poiter50 | 20 Apr 2015 6:50 p.m. PST |
My understanding is that camels were mainly used for baggage/transport and some scouting duties. Where confliucts occurred on more desert/arid areas the camels were of more use because of their ability to cross the sand areas. |
| capncarp | 22 May 2015 9:42 a.m. PST |
Poiter50:
Your understanding is apparently greater than mine. I took the use of the ship of the desert to include combat.
Camels are probably a lot smarter than to run into a cluster of humans with long pointy things and sticks that go bang and smoke a lot. |
| Longstrider | 24 May 2015 5:33 p.m. PST |
I bought a box of each, and the difference is basically the torsos, and a few arms, and the heads are different. In both, some heads are new and some heads are shared with the Arab infantry. TBH, depending on how much inaccuracy you can handle, some kitbashing with the right heads and you could really do anyone who wore lamellar on an unarmoured horse before gunpowder with the heavies, and with the rights heads the light armoured horse works for pretty much anyone who wore a buttonless robe or a looped robe on an unarmoured horse before gunpowder. Like many of us, I suspect, my area of 'good enough' is much wider for things pre-Napoleon and things outside the west. Importantly as well, I think between these and the Fireforge and Conquest offerings (albeit the latter has different head/neck joints) one can make a LOT of fantasy-type cavalry to represent all kinds of tropes. |
| Tango01 | 24 May 2015 9:39 p.m. PST |
Many thanks for the info my friend. Amicalement
Armand |
gets medieval.
