Wednesday, 26 February 2020

FireForge - Byzantine Spearmen

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This box enables you to build 25 x Byzantine Skoutatoi in heavy armour.

You'll be able to build all as Spearmen or up to 10 armed with sword and the remaining 15 with spear. All the figures in the box can be assembled with two different types of shields, building early or later period Byzantines.

The box contains 5 Figure Frames, each with 5 x Torsos and 8 x heads.


Figure Frame - Front
Figure Frame - Reverse

The box also contains 25 plastic bases, each being 20mm x 20mm in size.

FireForge Scandinavian Infantry

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This box enables you to build up to 25 x Post-Viking Scandinavian Infantry soldiers in heavy armour. You'll be able to build up to 10 Bowmen, and/or up to 10 armed with two-handed axe, and/or up to 5 armed with sword, and/or up to 5 armed with mace, and/or up to 24 armed with Spear.

The box contains five identical Figure Frames and a single frame with bases, each frame has 5 x armoured torsos, 10 x heads, 2 bows and arms, 2 Two Handed Axes and associated arms, a sword arm and a mace arm. There are also 6 shields , 3 x round, 2 x kite and one other.


Figure Frame

The box contains also contains 25, 20mm x 20mm bases.

FireForge - Byzantine Auxiliaries

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This box set enables you to build 25 x Byzantine Auxiliaries. You'll be able to assemble 10 x armoured archers and up to 5 x Slingers, up to 10 x light archers and up to 10 x javelin men. Obviously with just 25 torsos to work with you will be left with a significant number of pieces for your spares box!

The box contains five identical Figure Frames and a single frame with bases, each frame has 5 x torsos, 8 x heads, 5 x swords and shields.

Two torsos on each frame are armoured, the remainder are unarmoured.
Figure Frame


The box contains also contains 25, 20mm x 20mm bases.

FireForge - Sergeants at Arms

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This boxed set contains 12 x 28mm multi-part plastic Sergeants at Arms with a mix of barded and unbarded horses.

You can build several types of Sergeants with a choice of many weapons among which you will find crossbows for assembling Mounted Crossbowmen units.

The set contains three Figure Frames,each with parts to make 4 riders, there are a selection of cloaks, heads, arms and shields to allow for considerable variety in poses.


Figure Frame
Believe that there are two Weapons Frames in the set, with a variety of hand axe, sword and mace arms as well as six spear arms, as well as 6 crossbows on each frame.
Weapons Frame

There are four Horse Frames in the set, two each of Barded and Unbarded as below.

Unbarded Horse Frame
Barded Horse Frame

The box contains the following plastic bases:
3, 50mm x 50mm bases
6, 25mm x 50mm bases

Tuesday, 25 February 2020

ForeForge - Mongol Cavalry

This box set contains 12 x 28mm multi-part plastic Mongol Horse Archers of the 12th/13th century with a choice of many weapons among which you'll find bows, hand weapons, spears and shields.

Each of the three figure frames contains parts for 4 riders, with a variety of heads arms, weapons and shields that can be added to taste.

Standards can also be built from the pieces on each of these frames.

There are also 4 x Horse Frames each with parts for three horses, heads and tails can be swapped for added variety.


Figure Frame
Horse Frame


The box contains the following plastic bases -
3, 50mm x 50mm bases
6, 25mm x 50mm bases

More to come ...

Thursday, 20 February 2020

Conquest Games - Medieval Knights


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This boxed set form Conquest Games is focused on the  at the period between 1100AD and 1200AD, just as colourful heraldry was beginning to be introduced and when armoured knights were beginning to assert their authority on the battlefield.

These are perfect for the European wars of the middle of the 12th to 13th Centuries, or the 1st and 2nd Crusades.

There are 16 x models in each box, which are provided on 1 x Command Frame, 3 x Figure Frames and 2 x Horse Frames. There is also a single Base Frame.

Mathematically that works out as 16 x Knights but 18 x Horses, which seems odd but should be viewed as a bonus!

Command
Figure Frame

Horse Frame

More to come...

Conquest Games - Medieval Archers


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This boxed set contains 28 multi-part, hard plastic Medieval Archers, you get 4 x Figure Frames plus 1 x Command Frames which are the same frames form their infantry box.

As an additional bonus you also get 2 x Weapons Frames, each of which contain another figure, this Weapon Frame is the same as the lower half of the main Figure Frame.

Despite being labelled as Medieval', these figures would work well as 'Dark Ages' archers as well, so have been categorised here as such.

Each figure frame contains 6 x torsos, 12 x heads, 6 x Long Bow Arms, 4 x Short Bow arms and 9 x 'other' arms in a variety of poses to represent figures loosing an arrow, pointing or placing an arrow onto the string.
Figure Frame - Front

Accessory wise, each frame also has 6 x Quivers and 3 x knives / daggers.

Figure Frame - Back
The Weapons Frame contains 6 x Long Bow Arms, 4 x Short Bow arms and the 9 x 'other' arms noted above plus 2 x Quivers and the 3 x Knives.

Weapons Frame

Command Frame
Overall a very useful set which adds variety to the Gripping Beast Dark Age Archers set, reviewed elsewhere on this site.