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Before shipping these figures off to the artist, I thought I'd better get acquainted with them myself. Demonworld figures are sold in units, which means that this pack contains everything needed to field one unit of crossbow archers - a leader, a standardbearer, a musician, and about 40 archers. The Leader![]() My expectations were - since this was a "standard" Dwarven infantry unit - that this unit wouldn't be very elaborate. The leader would probably just be a crossbowman with a little different pose, maybe with a fist in the air? ![]() Boy, was I wrong. The leader in this pack is a great figure, arguably good enough to substitute as an army commander! You've got a very active-looking figure, wonderful pose, and that "winged helmet" should make him stand out from the rest of the unit. The Standardbearer![]() Again, a classy piece of a Dwarf holding up the unit's banner. The standard looks suitably Dwarfish - heavy chains, big (iron?) dragon on top. There's a bit of extra metal along the bottom of the banner, and between the banner and the figure's weapon, but that should be easy to trim away. The Musician![]() In Demonworld, units that have a "musician" (usually a drummer or bugler) receive a maneuverability bonus and a morale bonus (as long as the musician figure is alive!). ![]() Now, there's two ways to do a musician figure. Most of the time, sculptors produce a figure that is drumming its drum or bugling its bugle. However, what the sculptor has done with this figure is to give us a fighting Dwarf who happens to have a prominent war horn slung to his side - sort of a "potential" musician. ![]() This figure is nicely militant, with good facial expression. The ArchersOf course, you can't have a crossbow unit with crossbowmen - about forty, in fact, divided into two poses. ![]() The first pose gives us a credible Dwarf - wide, almost bowed down with armor and equipment, nice solid armored cap, big unadorned crossbow. ![]() What's nice is that even this "plain infantry" figure has such facial detail. ![]() The other pose does a nice job of showing Dwarves as being generously pot-bellied, with the chainmail flowing out and around the stomach - it adds a certain charm to the figure. The Next StepNow I need to figure out what my painting directions will be... |