"I Hate Warlord Games' Persian Immortals" Topic
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| Tango01 | 20 Feb 2022 9:13 p.m. PST |
"Warlord Games' ancient range has been one of my two main sources when building up my ancient armies – the other being the Victrix plastics range. Warlord's plastics are excellent – lovely models and well priced. Their metal figures – well, I have my doubts about some of them. Their Companion Cavalry, for example. Nice figures individually, but really too delicate for wargaming, especially the spindly legs of the horses. And they also suffer from a more common fault with modern figures that I find particularly irritating – the apparent need for variety in figure poses, and for those poses to be of the 'action' variety. So those Companions are all waving their xystons around with gay abandon, doubtless poking each others eyes out and wounding each other's horses…."
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| FilsduPoitou | 22 Feb 2022 10:54 a.m. PST |
Personally, I prefer my units to look more "calm and regimented" than doing wuxia-style acrobatics; even where that kind of behavior is expected (Gallic and Viking warbands). Sure, have the officer waving his sword about to make him stand out, but in most cases for units pre 20th century, keep the amount of real estate a model takes up to a minimum. |
| Tango01 | 22 Feb 2022 3:41 p.m. PST |
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| pfmodel | 23 Feb 2022 10:48 p.m. PST |
And they also suffer from a more common fault with modern figures that I find particularly irritating – the apparent need for variety in figure poses Totally agree, just give me one or two poses that don't look like the troops are under the influence of narcotics, unless the figures are naked berserkers. |
| abelp01 | 24 Feb 2022 1:54 p.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 24 Feb 2022 3:33 p.m. PST |
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| JJartist | 26 Feb 2022 11:53 a.m. PST |
One place to check out for "steady" looking 28mm Persians is the Newline Designs figures. They have more useful and traditional poses. They are older style figures and the detail is not a crisp as modern plastic figures. link Another range that has useful poses but are slightly smaller 28mm figures is 1st Corps who have an extensive range of figures. Some of the best horses in 28mm. link This image shows Newline (some on Vendel armored horses), 1st Corps, old Foundry, and Old Glory, lined up together:
Here are some more on a wip page:
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| Tango01 | 26 Feb 2022 3:24 p.m. PST |
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