| Tango01 | 13 Jan 2018 10:16 p.m. PST |
Warlord Games released the Napoleonic French Imperial Guard head of column
Main page
store.warlordgames.com
Amicalement
Armand
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 deadhead  | 14 Jan 2018 5:30 a.m. PST |
Wow, I forgive them any previous less than ideal releases. Very imaginative. They even have the serpents correctly held! All we need now is a mounted band… |
| Footslogger | 14 Jan 2018 5:32 a.m. PST |
Oh, that takes me back to my old copy of Funcken. |
| deadhead | 14 Jan 2018 7:23 a.m. PST |
Yes. I have been back twice to the website to view these. No price announced yet and I imagine one has to buy the whole lot…it makes sense though, unlike their LHS set where some of the figures are not available for separate purchase. If you do follow the link, it is not so obvious, but there is a nice video of these if you click on the image below Vive L'Empereur. The painting is superb…imagine how long this project would take though. At first I thought odd to have the musicians clean shaven, but many sources confirm could well be right. I do wonder if the chap with the Jingling Johnny should have a darker complexion more akin to Sub Saharan Africa than Les Tuilerries? |
| Gonsalvo | 14 Jan 2018 9:11 a.m. PST |
They have a US price listed now of $90 USD ($80 deal right now) for 40 metal figures. I agree, very noce! |
| Gonsalvo | 14 Jan 2018 9:19 a.m. PST |
Oh, and they do have it broken into sub sets – the Sappers, the drummers, the Band, and the Drum Majors, etc. Follow the French Napoleonic link to to the end of the second page. |
| deadhead | 14 Jan 2018 10:22 a.m. PST |
Thanks I missed that. Attention span of a gnat…… |
| custosarmorum | 14 Jan 2018 10:30 a.m. PST |
Reminds me of my youth. I had a Monifigs French Old Guard band. I always wanted the Historex band as well but that was out of my teenager's price range (and no doubt my abilities). I wonder if they will do a British band and a corps of drums as well a la Minifigs? |
| Tango01 | 14 Jan 2018 2:43 p.m. PST |
Happy you like the boys!. (smile)
Specially you … my good friend Deadhead!. (smile)
Amicalement
Armand |
ScottWashburn  | 14 Jan 2018 6:32 p.m. PST |
It is beautiful and very tempting. Of course if I was going to get it, I'd also want a colonel on horseback and about ten ranks of Old Guard Grenadiers to follow :) |
| 4th Cuirassier | 15 Jan 2018 2:25 a.m. PST |
I'm struggling with how you'd use these. I would need 20 figures for an Old Guard battalion who would include a few (maximum four, each different) command figures. So that would leave 30+ unused . I can see a lot of part-used sets of these ending up on the 'bay. |
| deadhead | 15 Jan 2018 5:33 a.m. PST |
These will surely be of limited appeal to those who throw dice. They would make a marvellous site on any wargames table, but again their place seems more like Les Tuilleries than La Haye Sainte. These are an indulgence. They will end up on a few shelves and I am certainly tempted. But this is not an overnight job and there is that lead mountain. A mounted band I could not resist |
| Marc at work | 15 Jan 2018 6:30 a.m. PST |
If it worked for Minifigs (I remember that band) then I guess there is a market. People like Liam who (foolishly) don't actually game with their toys… Odd I know, but that is how some people like them… :-) |
| Tango01 | 15 Jan 2018 11:00 a.m. PST |
Glad you like them too my friend!. Amicalement
Armand |
| deadhead | 15 Jan 2018 12:10 p.m. PST |
and who foolishly cannot spell "sight". This seems far and away the best release ever from this company, which we have all criticised on so many occasions. I suspect much assembly required for the musicians and the task of painting such a parade-ground appearance is daunting. This would be quite a project but the end result could be astounding, if totally useless and decorative only. Next thought, are there decent parade rig/marching Grenadiers a Pied to follow this lot? Finally (and in no way meant to belittle what I think is a superb release). Few errors crept in. 1. The cross, instead of grenade, on the bearskin patch. Well I thought wrong but that and the very long tails just means they are early in the Empire 2. The twin tassels on the drummers' bearskins are wrong for Grenadiers, which these, in every way, clearly are. Should be a single white tassel. 3. The sappers very impressive, but seem to be very senior ranks, to judge by the profusion of pure gold on lace and lapel fringes! With red added and appropriate rank stripes they could all be NCOs I guess……… Generally though, great research has gone into the castings. The fringed boots on the drum major, the instruments so well portrayed, the slightly different poses in the pioneers and drummers, rather than just flog us 8 identical figures. Brilliant |
ponders nirvana.
