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2011/09/09 22:25:26
Subject: Fireforge Games: 28mm Plastic Teutonic Knights! Feb 14/15th release
Well if you remember a quite little topic a few months ago, I mentioned a new company that was apparently going to make 28mm plastic crusaders
Well they STILL dont have an official site but they now have a facebook page and the company is called Fireforge Games. I am very excited just by the preview pics alone! I hope the final product is good! These will also make excellent count as bretonnians (if scale doesnt bother you too much I assume)
It's honestly very hard to tell the detail from the pics. Price and quantity per box will make/break these for me.
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scarletsquig wrote:Looks promising, but doesn't strike me as a set of historicals.
The big outlandish helmet decorations seem more fantasy-styled.
The inclusion of musician, banner, champion seems to indicate that they're going for the warhammer market.
The big outlandish great helms were quite common amongst those who could afford them. You can find descriptions of them as well as examples and pictures of them in the Codex Manesse particularly of the famous Tannhäuser.
I have no idea why you think banners and musicians are fantasy only either.
Only now do I realize how much I prefer Pete Haines' "misprints" to Gav Thorpe's "brainfarts." :Abadabadoobaddon
Dice Monkey wrote:
I have no idea why you think banners and musicians are fantasy only either.
Very true, forgot to mention that. Really almost all historical sets these days have Banners and Musicians when historically appropriate (especially for european armies since the roman times)
Might finally give me an excuse to get something that counts as rough riders for my Imperial Guard. "Some random feral worlds knight order" works for me, such as the ones from the Dark Angel homeworld pre-heresy.
The models look pretty good to me, from what we can see. 28mm scale with horsies, no doubt somewhat dear though.
Yes but in time, these are honestly lovely. I emailed them just now asking about release and retailer sales and such as I would love too own these and carry them at my webstore!!! Honestly these are far better then the Gripping Beast versions and I forsee me doing a full army of them (especially as I am in the WAB adepticon campaign as the Kingdom of Jerusalem). Whoever made the statement on helments it would behove you I think too look something up before posting statements on historicals if you have no idea about them. That way you don't make yourself look bad honestly.
@OP: Thank you show much for posting these!
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I always wanted to play a medieval historical game with awesome rules and tight miniatures. I dont know what the rules are and they need to seriously revamp some of thier minis. Not all, some are really good. But there is a sparkle there, of what its too early to say.
marxlives wrote:I always wanted to play a medieval historical game with awesome rules and tight miniatures. I dont know what the rules are and they need to seriously revamp some of thier minis. Not all, some are really good. But there is a sparkle there, of what its too early to say.
You want them too revamp there minis even though this is there first release. I am going to say this as I assume you namely play 40k by that statement. In real life wars soldiers don't carry five hundred pounds of gear with pouches covering there bodies. These are spot on historically with amazing perportions which is not easy by any means. Also for historicals seldom do companies come out with their own rules because most gamers use home grown or one of the umpteen billion out there. So if you are waiting on a rules set too release you will probably keep waiting honestly.
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That arm with the sword has been puzzling me too KGatch.
Not sure if it is the angle of the photo but it does look odd.
Not sure which lancer you mean.
I'm Fabio and i'm the owner of Fireforge Games. Thanks to Arod who pointed me to this post (he is a real life friend of mine) i can answer some of the questions raised in this post.
Just heard on facebook it a rough number of 12, but then take that with a facebook sized grain of salt
There are going to be 12 knights for every box with a lot of assembling options. The price is not fixed yet but it is going to be the standard one for the equivalent plastic cavarly like Perry, Warlord etc.
That arm with the sword has been puzzling me too KGatch. Not sure if it is the angle of the photo but it does look odd.
The right arm with the sword is very well proportioned in real life, it is the pic angle that makes it not so. Moreover, consider that the body of that knight is wheeling to its back, much like charging for a sword strike, but the pic is taken from the front and it is flattened.
During next week i'll post more detailed pics of the pre-production 3up resin copies we have right now from different angles.
I like the horses quite a bit. I hope they will fit in well with my old style Bretonnians. The models seem pretty dynamic for mounted figs.
They'll fit very very well with your old style bretonnians......they were some of the miniatures we took as reference when taking the decision about scale size in pre sculpting meeting
I always wanted to play a medieval historical game with awesome rules and tight miniatures
Give time.....we are aiming not only at producing miniatures but at creating a "game system". It's our dream since we are very passioned wargamers here and we are trying to make it true.
If you pay attention to our Facebook Wall, you'll probably be able to notice that a certain ex GW game designer posted on it and we had some fun with him.......
Judging by their art, they will in time. Although it doesnt look like they're gonna do any non Western European stuff any time soon
Not all the artworks there are going to be box covers for future covers. Most of the art there was taken/commissioned for future use too like for a book...
Anyway, we want to "complete" a range/faction before advancing to the next project. Therefore, you'll not see non Western European before we have finished our crusaders line.
After our first release "Teutonic Knights" (it should be around Christmas), we'll have at least 4 more plastic releases during the first two quarters of 2012.
It's very exciting for us here at Fireforge being able to talk about it in pubblic now, although, at the same time we cannot say everything going on here.
It's REALLY a dream becoming true for us and trust me that we want to play with our Teutonic Knights on the battlefield as soon as possible!!!
Best Regards,
Fabio
General Manager
Fireforge Games