Topic: Other Manufacturers

[Fandir Nightshade]

Mounted Crossbows are ace the rest is not my cup of tea.....the horses look half asleep.

[Padre]

I like 'em all. Once I get this next batch out of the way, I reckon they might be up for sale. I think I am accidentally making a whole new army (done this several times as RP or merc' company collections suddenly hit the point at which I might as well go the whole way and make them into an army.)

[shavixmir]

A friend pointed these out to me. Has the site been linked to yet?

http://www.fireforge-games.com/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.browse&category_id=12&Itemid=95

Certainly good news for any cavalry based army. My Brets might have to get dusted off

[Midaski]

A friend pointed these out to me. Has the site been linked to yet?

http://www.fireforge-games.com/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.browse&category_id=12&Itemid=95

Certainly good news for any cavalry based army. My Brets might have to get dusted off

Wow that's amazing .....................


Not the figures - we discussed them 20 pages back ..............


But that Shav has a friend ...............................


 

[shavixmir]

A friend pointed these out to me. Has the site been linked to yet?

http://www.fireforge-games.com/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.browse&category_id=12&Itemid=95

Certainly good news for any cavalry based army. My Brets might have to get dusted off

Wow that's amazing .....................


Not the figures - we discussed them 20 pages back ..............


But that Shav has a friend ...............................


 

Your wit is surpassed only by your age, surely, sir.

Has anyone bought them yet? Are they too small?

[Midaski]

I have all three sets and intend to buy the infantry set due next month.
They are similar to Perry stuff both in scale and style - real life rather than heroic, not as chunkys as GW - they wouldn't mix with Bret knights in a unit, but fine independently.

There were several painted units at Salute back in April - and they looked stunning.

[shavixmir]

They do look really good.
And using GW knights, for example, as Grail knights, you can use the templar knights as KOTR and the Teutonic knights as... well... something else (too ill to think at the moment. To be quite truthful, I sneezed this morning and my left ear has went deaf).

I have Perry miniatures (I think) from the war of the roses. They're quite good too.

[arjunstc]

I use Perry WOTR as an Empire army, but had these been available when I started the project, I would be uing them for a Bretonnian army instead.

[GamesPoet]

I like the Teutonic figures being produced by Fireforge.  They do seem to have more of a Bretonnian feel though.

From the picture on Fireforge's site, the infantry have 6 options for bodies, with 8 bodies per sprue, yet two of the bodies are duplicates.  Kind of like they were running up against some internal deadline, and didn't bother to make all 8 of them different.  With Perry's WotRs and Euro Mercs, granted they're of a different time period, but they've provided 12 different bodies on a sprue, and that doesn't include the one's on the command sprue.

[Darknight]

A wild unsubstantiated rumor appears!

Just read on the Wargames Factory forums that Dwarfs with blackpowder weapons are "coming next week". Post is dated 17th Sept, so they should be here now, but release schedules can be iffy.

In any case; wild rumor is wild. WGF stuff is generally speaking about $20 for 30 figures, and they are multipart and fun.

I dislike Dwarfs myself, BUT if they are interesting and characterful they could be good for certain armies.

[GamesPoet]

Is there a link to where the dwarf statement is?

[Darknight]

http://wargamesfactory.lefora.com/2010/09/17/tech-level/

[Quickbeam]

I'm afraid that is from 2 years ago...
Look at the date at the bottom of the announcement post

[GamesPoet]

Yep, only the most recent post of 10/29/2012 is after all the other posts done in 2010.

They have a thread somewhere that mentions waiting until the Liberty and Union League post gets beyond the 2% it currently has.  Which I suspect isn't anytime soon.  If the Liberty and Union League even exists anymore.  Its still on the website, but I ahve no idea if it has any meaning at this point.

[Darknight]

Oooops! My bad, guys

But little WGF Dwarfs would be fun. They should totally do them.

[GamesPoet]

Probably yes.  Previous ownership wanted to make them and believe they had figures in design, but there's been a change and the current ownership doesn't seem to be interested at the moment.

[Darknight]

Hippies.

[Akbar]

Update on my dealings with foundry (see above post 1465 and onwards):

I ordered all the re-released renaissance orcs/ogres. There was a minor cockup with my order; they could not find the moulds for some of the orcs posted on the website, 4 out of 16 I think. I was a bit disappointed of course, but my god was I compensated....in the end I received models for about 220 euros for free - all the orcs they could find moulds for and some other stuff. Communication was very good through the entire process, and I honestly think they went bit TOO far. They do have to make money after all.

In the future, I will order more stuff. I feel I have been treated very well by them.

Sadly, the re-released ones were withdrawn from the shop. This is because they did not want to risk any further incidents; they will be put back on. Below is part of an email from Marcus Ansell:

I took the orcs off the website again because some of  the ones that had been discontinued are either scattered around the factory randomly or the models themselves are on the wrong moulds. I’ll have to wait until I have enough time to spend a day at the factory sorting them out.
On the bright side, we found lots of masters of orcs that have never been released before. It’ll be a while before they are out but they will appear at some point. The same with the dwarves, there are at least twenty models made by Kevin Adams and Mike Owen which we will be able to release in the distant future.

So, all in all, I´m very satisfied. Foundry handled this well, the orcs will reappear (AND more dwarfs!) and my army just grows and grows - their elisabethean spanish swordsmen goes well with the orcs...

[Darknight]

Wargames Factory (on whom I have a small mancrush) have announced the War of Spanish Succession artillery.

http://wargamesfactory.lefora.com/2012/11/03/bring-up-the-guns/

Box art (no pics of models yet);



Likely to be a $20 price point. Probably smaller guns than the Great Cannon, but may be useful.

[GamesPoet]

Their publicist has seemed to confirm the rumors in that same thread.

Not sure how well these will really work for Empire, but perhaps they'll make a good addition to some WSS figures that I'm slowly working on.

[cjp]

Some new heroes / mordheim charachters from Raging Heroes, that I imagine will be pretty popular with some folks.

[oak_prince]

I got a lot ahold of a bunch of Darklands/Banelords figures. I give them a 8/10. The detail is amazing but the manufacturer made some questionable design/assembly choices. For instance, the making the banners and the banner poles single pieces. I also wouldn't recommend them to anyone who isn't comfortable heating/bending resin.

[Darknight]

@cjp : There was a whole thread discussing those little pieces of fanservice here http://warhammer-empire.com/theforum/index.php?topic=44118.0

[ZeroTwentythree]

@cjp : There was a whole thread discussing those little pieces of fapservice here http://warhammer-empire.com/theforum/index.php?topic=44118.0

...fixed that... 

[cjp]

Ah ha! Sorry, missed the other thread. Thanks