"Macedonian Phalangites - Warlord Boxed Set" Topic

Just an idle question but …

This set looks really good. I'm tempted. but … if a sarissa was 18ft then are they a bit undersized? The ones in the set look more like 12ft.

I've not got the minis, but looking at the painted unit picture they look at least 3 times the figure height, so they are probably fine.

Eye to toe the minis are 27mm high, the sarissa is 82 mm long. I like them.

I've used them as the base for most of my phalangite units and I like them a lot. Personally, I think the sarissa are about right for length – any longer would be even more of a headache to store, too (storing pike-armed figs is the bane of my 28mm collecting…). They're about the right size to mix easily with Crusader Miniatures, A&A Miniatures and Aventine Miniatures ranges as well if you want to get a bit more variety. They'd probably also mix well with other 'chunky 28s', but I don't have any of the others…

I have them but have done nothing with them yet. How have the plastic pikes held up? Should I think about replacing with metal ones before painting?

Leadjunky,

The plastic pikes are fairly thick (probably somewhat over-scale), but as a result, in my experience, they flex a bit but don't break easily. I have yet to break one.

As for replacing them with wire pikes, it would be tedious, but fairly easy to do (cut off the plastic pike, drill out the hands, thread the hands onto the pike, glue the arms/hands in place, glue the pike to the hands). My main worry about doing that would be that because the metal pikes flex less than the plastic ones they will transfer the pressure to the drilled out hands and the wrist joins and may actually break the model more easily (but at a different location than with the original plastic pikes).

For what it is worth, I've been happy going ahead with painting mine with the original plastic pikes…