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| Dwarf Crossbow Archers | |
| Product # | 4405 |
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| Suggested Retail Price | 23.47 EUR |
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| 11 June 2002 | page first published |
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Of 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.
Now I need to figure out what my painting directions will be...
