"Best 28mm Ancients Line? (Round One)" Topic

Any chance of adding Wargames Factory? Still early days, but their quality has soared since the first Romans, and they're becoming a decidedly significant player.

What No WF, Essex, 1st Corps, Companion, so on and so forth…
VR
James Mattes

Come to that, Copplestone have got 4 votes already, and they don't even have an ancients line….

WF – the best? You go to be kidding!
In any case WG would rank way ahead them on any criteria you can think of.

Even someone like Miniature Design Studio have a bigger and better quality range of ancients, and there is also Renegade.

Ahhh, I was able to pick 4 lines pretty quickly, but had trouble deciding on the 5th – picked "Other" – for the "one" that may have been left off the poll. And, as the poll is for "Ancients Line" – I used a cutoff of about 500 AD, so didn't pick a line that started with say, early-Crusades. I also agree with Dom – I wasn't sure if Copplestone had any "Ancients" – so didn't pick them, although they make nice figures. Dean

P.S. Redboubt seems underrated – I have not only their Trojan War range, but also their Early-Italian line, and am very happy with both.

What No WF, Essex, 1st Corps, Companion, so on and so forth…

Nobody nominated them.

I've clicked on Irregular.

Value for money. £60.00 GBP for 100 figure army packs. 75p a figure thereafter.

Are you guys kidding me???

A&A figs are da bomb! (no I don't work for them or even live in the same country)

They are expensive and cross-pond transactions are never fun; but . . . we are talking the "best" not the cheapest.

mjc

Copplestone up to 11 votes now, and they still don't make a 28mm ancients line…. ;-)

Copplestone up to 11 votes now, and they still don't make a 28mm ancients line…. ;-)

They do make Tupi, Inuits, cavemen, and dinosaurs…

Copplestone is one of the web pages that locks up my computer. I dont know why but they have for the last year or so.

so they sell nothing as far as I can tell :)

I totally forgot about this thread! I do remember Allen did his best to derail it from the get-go.

Steve
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Maybe if enough people vote for Copplestone, it will convince them to make an Ancients line! Yet another 'feature' of the TMP polling process!

What Companion ancients? Try ordering some, it's like nominating a film thats never been released.

I picked 3 and other, so I still have a vote for sale…er I mean remaining.

Voted for three ,but my favourite is often bashed a bit and they are doing well in the poll.

Nobody nominated them.

And when, where, and how were nominations made? I don't see TAG listed, for that matter.

What ancients to the Perrys make?

The Perry's don't really make ancients, per se, but they do have some great medieval-renaissance offerings:

Crusades
Hundred Years War
Samurai
Choson Koreans

If Tupi and dinosaurs count, these certainly ought to.

Gorgon is not on the list. Their ex Artizan range of Spartans is one of my favourites.

I would have voted for Wargames Factory if they had been an option.

By the way, as ancients runs to 1485 according to WRG so I agree that Perry qualify. I have their Crusades and Orleans figures. Crusader have some very nice stuff for Ancients and Dark Ages as do Artizan.

Mick

Mick:

I know you've heard it before, but I like to use the 5th C. AD as the cut-off for "Ancients." You know, the whole fall of the Western Roman Empire, and great stuff like that. Figure too, that TMP itself breaks forums down to Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, etc. Perry would definitely get my vote for the later periods. Dean

With the period so poorly defined as to include Copplestone, Crocodile, and Perry, and with so many companies omitted, this poll has about as much credibility as one that asks: "Is an apple red?":

a) Yes
b) No
c) Tuesday

Total waste of time.

Allen:

You left off d) Granny Smith.

Granny Smith knows what color her apples are.

Dear Editor,

Please can we redo this Poll with clearer parameters and with the addition of Gorgon, Wargames Factory, Essex, 1st Corps, Companion, Miniature Design Studio,Renegade.

I think that a Poll of up to 400AD will give a very different result to a Poll up to 1485.

Regards
Mick

Best also include Warlord Games, Imago Militis, and Aventine--you know, companies that actually make ancient figures.

Steve, I object to your characterization. I was being very positive:

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On this thread, I was pointing out the futility of such a question:

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…and I think that thread, resulting in this poll, has proved me right!

Oh, and lose the options based on the suggestions for "Cobblestone Castings" (sic) and "Crocodile games" (sic). Madness.

Allen

I kind of like my Magister Militum, 1st Corps and Essex figures… :P

Cheers
Paul

Couldn't we have a vote on who makes the nicest decals instead?
;-)

Copplestone, obviously….

I still have a vote. (hint hint)

I so wanted to vote for Aventine and Gorgon (because you have to vote for yourself), but was saddened by their omission. So, Crusader it is!

GHQ micro armour is the best ancients period!
VR
James Mattes