"Bad, Better, Good, Ugly, & Great" News from Wargames Factory

First of all I have to be honest – I don't have any interest at all in Romans, Celts, ACW or Napoleonics – which is where the new plastics fit. It's Dark Ages thru to SYW, LOTR, Conan and WW2 for me. (Nudge-nudge, wink-wink to the plastic manufacturers.)

Nonetheless interesting points of view here. I have always hoped that someone would bring out hard plastic 28mm figs up to the level of the current anatomy and style produced by Zvezda – which I thought would fill a huge gap in the market. Maybe still yet to happen, although I agree the Perry figures look good. The Valiant and Warlord figures are sub-standard in my opinion – they look more like toys than models. But each to his own. One man's meat is another man's poison etc.

What I don't understand with this range is that the Romans look weird but the Celts reasonable. Personally I'd go for a look of Romans as lean and mean invaders rather than bandy-legged pasta eaters – a 300 Spartans look. I agree the horses look strange, the necks and heads are suspect. Overall I'd go for a bit more action. The Celts remind me of the flat poses of the LOTR plastic Rohan range.

Still, for a first-release, I really shouldn't be critical.

I felt Field Of Glory (which this range supports) was a big let-down – I can't read most of it, anything printed on the coloured sidebars and boxes is illegible. The diagrams are fuzzy. Poor show from an experienced publishing house.