"Mongol Cavalry Released" Topic

actually the guy in back in the blue tunic hasn't released yet :-)

Nadir we!

My box arrived in the post today – Haven't put any together yet (I really should finish painting my latest batch of figures first)….the quality of the moulding looks excellent. Another fine set of figures from Fireforge.

Which year we have that I cant see actual models in webshop .

I do not buy miniatures based on box covers ;/

Ditto, no pics no sale.

Obiuvsly an error has occurred during the maintenance of our website: on the bot of the article on our website there are the pictures of Seargeants at Arms instead Mongol Cavalry's sprue :) we will resolve it soon. Meanwhile google help who want to see sprue pictures with forums and facebook pages. Also on our official page on facebook people can see high detailed pictures of our Mongol Cavalry (and all other our sets)

Cheers

12 cavalry, 10 bases. Is this marketing based on the same principle as hot dog and bun packaging?

6 of the bases look to be be double bases while 4 of them are singles. So there are more bases than you need, if basing for their rules.

Metal? Plastic? Scale? As a potential customer, I probably know more about mongols than this company, but the lack of essential information regarding the models themselves puts me off.

Hello punkrabbitt :) Fireforge makes plastic 28mm multi component figures

cheers

If you go to their site and use the Community link to their facebook page you can see the miniatures mentioned in a painted group. Other sets are featured as well.
The Mongol Light Cavalry look very nice and are highly animated.
Worth a look.

Is there a photo of a sprue somewhere?

Are there spare heads that could possibly be used for other light horse types like turks?

on facebook…wherever that is… ;-)

on facebook…wherever that is… ;-)

Indeed…

Yes, the Facebook page has a shot of some sprues in a pile. Facebook is no worse than a couple more clicks. You can view as a guest w/out sign up, IIRC.

We need to adapt or be left behind.

Each soldier had two to four horses, so when a horse tired, they could use the other ones, which made them one of the fastest armies in the world.

Are you going to sell sprues of remounts?

Which year we have that I cant see actual models in webshop .

I do not buy miniatures based on box covers ;/

Ditto, no pics no sale.

A quick Goggle search would have waylaid all your worries:

Cheers,
Darrell.

Just Add Water II Blog (Painting etc):
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La Journee Blog (Hundred Years War):
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Gewalthaufen Blog (Late 15th Cebtury Blog):
gewalthaufen.blogspot.co.uk

It's great to see "The Village People" re-inventing themselves as Mongol cavalry

Some bizzare comments. Fantastic dynamic sculpts.

These sculpts are just so much better than all their lead equivalents, with their gigantic heads and King Kong hands, that it's really difficult to understand why people are criticizing them, even pretending to be funny. Though I have an idea or 2.

Could they (most of them anyway) be used for Huns ?

Could they (most of them anyway) be used for Huns ?

The key question, at last! Which could be asked for Avars, Bulgars and Turks too.
Now as far as the Huns are concerned I think that the haircut and weapons are statistically right, though I'm not so sure about the stirrups. Now that is the decisive factor from a historical point of view, and besides it was a matter of life or death for many hundred thousands people throughout history. Only solution is to do your own research or find someone who's done it!

Oh! And I was forgetting the Khazars! The one and only Hebrew Empire of the Steppes! At war at once with the Empire, the Caliphate and the 'Rus! Possibilities are endless!

DROCTON : I found the following answers on the stirrup question:
As noted both the Avar and Huns are credited for introducing the stirrup tp Europe although it was not widely adopted until later. Sometimes innovations take a while to become the norm.

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""""""""''Who Were the Huns?: The Huns were a group of nomadic (roaming) herdsmen, warlike people from the steppes (grasslands) of North Central Asia north of China (Mongolia) who terrorized, pillaged, and destroyed much of Asia and Europe from the 3rd through 5th centuries. The use of the stirrup gave the Huns a technological advantage over other warriors of the time. Stirrups are loops hung from a saddle that support a horse rider's feet; these let the Huns brace themselves on their horses while wielding swords or shooting arrows"""

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"""""Invaders from Central Asia, such as the Huns, brought the stirrup to Europe, where it seems to have been valued as much for aiding in mounting as for stabilising a rider in the saddle. In fact, the words for stirrup in Old High German, Old Saxon, and Old English are all derived from words for climbing. When used with the contoured saddle, stirrups afforded a mounted warrior considerable stability, thereby allowing him to deal powerful blows with a sword, axe, mace, or lance. When using the lance in the couched position*, a mounted man could deliver a blow whose energy was derived from the force of the charging horse. But how often this was done outside of tournament jousts is difficult to say, as the Bayeaux Tapestry from c. 1080 shows mounted Normans and English hurling spears and lances at each other, rather than charging home with their weapons couched. """
Do I have a "go" as Mongolian/Hun light cavalry with the FIREFORGE box ????

"'orrible 'uns" at last! Brings back memories!