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Trollkin called Fennblades calmly wait shoulder to shoulder—wicked hooked greatswords raised at the ready—listening to the approach of thundering hooves. Some duck lances to sweep blades through the legs of mounts while others swing their blades straight into the chests of the riders. The result is always the same, as Fennblades stand victorious over the bodies of the slain.

Classification: Plastic Unit
Price: $49.99*
Model Count: 10
*Product information and prices subject to change






The blight has twisted the minds as well as the flesh of these ogrun, addicting them to the joy of bloodlust. If their enemies are not killed outright from the impact of their spears, the tremendous lengths of wood dangling from the creatures’ vitals can trip them up long enough for the blighted ogrun to close and finish the job.

Classification: Plastic Unit
Price: $44.99*
Model Count: 5

Very nice indeed...

Those are plastic? They look great! Perhaps there's hope for PP after all.

10 plastic for $50 or 5 for $45??

Where is the howling, rending of clothes and gnashing of teeth. Come on people, how many threads about GW and their pricing? This is worse - this makes goldswords actually look worth their weight. I still don't buy the argument that you need less models etc to play WM so it is cheaper, because you build up a good WM army and it isn't cheap.

I dunno, just smacks of hypocrisy to me - what does PP have to do before its players actually start to complain?

Awesome! The spearchukkas are about the same price as GW Terminators! Go PP!

Thought they were pretty good till I saw the price.

Have they started charging $95 per 5 cavalry models yet like the GW Blood Knights. I'm still laughing at the guys at the flgs that think WM is the cheaper game.

They're standing on 1.5" bases.

It's really not a cheaper game. It was when it started, so that impression has carried over through the years, but it's not really true anymore. No all PP has going for them is an awesome background, superior game rules, excellent quality books, and models that are easily on par with GW.


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malfred wrote:They're standing on 1.5" bases.

Read: 40mm equivalents.

Looking very nice.

The warspears are ogre sized miniatures for those of you who don't know. Hence the higher price per figure.

The Power Cosmic wrote:It's really not a cheaper game. It was when it started, so that impression has carried over through the years, but it's not really true anymore. No all PP has going for them is an awesome background, superior game rules, excellent quality books, and models that are easily on par with GW.

Only if you like top heavy jacks, static models, body proportions that are off, blandness in the majority of the range, swords that look like they do blunt force trauma rather than cut and elves with ears soooo long I swear even the model blushes in shame.

I have tried to get into this game on several occasions and each time I have bought $200 worth of models and each time I open a blister or two and then take them all back.

Many PP models have such aweful sculpting that the level of suck is sucktastic and they should be in a museum of sucking in the section called sucketh the most. And then have a bag over them.

Plastic Warspears? That is cool. Five in a box, right.

fullheadofhair wrote:

The Power Cosmic wrote:It's really not a cheaper game. It was when it started, so that impression has carried over through the years, but it's not really true anymore. No all PP has going for them is an awesome background, superior game rules, excellent quality books, and models that are easily on par with GW.

Only if you like top heavy jacks, static models, body proportions that are off, blandness in the majority of the range, swords that look like they do blunt force trauma rather than cut and elves with ears soooo long I swear even the model blushes in shame.

The bulky upper bodies on 'jacks are a stylistic choice, so if you don't like them, that's just not your thing, nothing I can do about it.

Early PP models could be pretty static, yes, and some had bad proportions, but the same was true for early GW models. Since then, it's just not true. While they're not all gems :coughfenriscough:, they've got all the dynamism of GW sculpts. Check out the Mage Hunter Strike Force and tell me they're static.

As for the swords, if you're talking about metal models then that's just a fact of the casting process. You can't cast thin metal blades like you can in plastic, not even GW can.

Elf ears, really? Well, you're right, they're not GW elves, that's for sure. You know what else will probably get your dander up, the dwarves don't all have beards either. I know, shock and horror.

I agree with fullheadofhair, except without some of his veracity. The game just doesn't appeal, and the stylistic choice coupled with the gameplay, and expense, make it hard to justify jumping ship.

Now if only they have a futuristic game.

Cool models. Gonna need some brass rods for those spears.

Oh and there's probably less gnashing of teeth at the price because the models are pretty large. That and I think less PP fans have the 'hate it but still buy it' mentality.

Moz wrote:Cool models. Gonna need some brass rods for those spears.

Why? They're plastic.

Their plastic is closer to resin, so I'm betting that the spears will suffer bendy issues.

skrulnik wrote:

Moz wrote:Cool models. Gonna need some brass rods for those spears.

Why? They're plastic.

I expect an "exactly" post in response.

Moz wrote:Cool models. Gonna need some brass rods for those spears.

Oh and there's probably less gnashing of teeth at the price because the models are pretty large. That and I think less PP fans have the 'hate it but still buy it' mentality.

I can't think of something people didn't want to buy that they felt they had to buy.

Other than Mr. 30 Bane Knights. But he was an army hopper. If he played 40k he'd
probably do the ebay shuffle with the release of every new Army Book.

The detail on these plastics is awesome! I would have no complaint about the price considering their size and quality if I played either army.

The Power Cosmic wrote:

fullheadofhair wrote:

The Power Cosmic wrote:It's really not a cheaper game. It was when it started, so that impression has carried over through the years, but it's not really true anymore. No all PP has going for them is an awesome background, superior game rules, excellent quality books, and models that are easily on par with GW.

Only if you like top heavy jacks, static models, body proportions that are off, blandness in the majority of the range, swords that look like they do blunt force trauma rather than cut and elves with ears soooo long I swear even the model blushes in shame.

The bulky upper bodies on 'jacks are a stylistic choice, so if you don't like them, that's just not your thing, nothing I can do about it.

Early PP models could be pretty static, yes, and some had bad proportions, but the same was true for early GW models. Since then, it's just not true. While they're not all gems :coughfenriscough:, they've got all the dynamism of GW sculpts. Check out the Mage Hunter Strike Force and tell me they're static.

As for the swords, if you're talking about metal models then that's just a fact of the casting process. You can't cast thin metal blades like you can in plastic, not even GW can.

Elf ears, really? Well, you're right, they're not GW elves, that's for sure. You know what else will probably get your dander up, the dwarves don't all have beards either. I know, shock and horror.

Thank you sir you said everything i wanted to but was to polite to form into sentances

Those are both some pretty cool units. I was looking forward to seeing the Warspears, and they don't disappoint. If I didn't already know they were plastic, I don't think I would have realized it. It's good to see that PP seems to be off to a good start with their plastic stuff.

They are expensive. But the good news is, these are full sized units, aren't they? Plus, as others have said, the Warspears are ogre-sized models, and they're still $5 cheaper than GW Terminators. The price on the Fennblades is a little bit harder to swallow, I'll admit - but they are nice models, all the same.

Cool stuff.

The Power Cosmic wrote:It's really not a cheaper game. It was when it started, so that impression has carried over through the years, but it's not really true anymore. No all PP has going for them is an awesome background, superior game rules, excellent quality books, and models that are easily on par with GW.


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malfred wrote:They're standing on 1.5" bases.

Read: 40mm equivalents.

Well when PP makes models/army lists obsolete and brings the total of the PP models I can no longer use to somewhere around the $1500 mark that my GW genestealer cult and LATD are hovering at then I'll worry about the prices of PP models a little more until then I'll just wink and laugh at the GW fanboy trolls like the ones populating this thread...

Railguns wrote:Have they started charging $95 per 5 cavalry models yet like the GW Blood Knights. I'm still laughing at the guys at the flgs that think WM is the cheaper game.

Actually, PP was the originator of the $100 unit of cavalry

http://privateerpress.com/warmachine/gallery/cygnar/units/storm-lance-cavalry

Storm Lance cavalry, $19.99 per blister of 1 knight. I think GW actually copied PP in that category

Moz wrote:That and I think less PP fans have the 'hate it but still buy it' mentality.

And GW fans don't?

C'mon man.

Hey, 10 Trolls of $50 is a hell of a lot better than $50 for 5 like they used to be.

Being Trolls, these are as large as Terminators (if not slightly larger), and you get twice as many for the same price.

That is a better deal that GW, sorry. No argument from me.

CT GAMER wrote:

The Power Cosmic wrote:It's really not a cheaper game. It was when it started, so that impression has carried over through the years, but it's not really true anymore. No all PP has going for them is an awesome background, superior game rules, excellent quality books, and models that are easily on par with GW.


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malfred wrote:They're standing on 1.5" bases.

Read: 40mm equivalents.

Well when PP makes models/army lists obsolete and brings the total of the PP models I can no longer use to somewhere around the $1500 mark that my GW genestealer cult and LATD are hovering at then I'll worry about the prices of PP models a little more until then I'll just wink and laugh at the GW fanboy trolls like the ones populating this thread...

Have there been that many of them in here yet?

Anyway, you have to admit, they are rather expensive.

Maybe PP got a sneak preview of GW's 2009 report and 'borrowed' the reasoning behind GW's plastic pricing?

Alpharius wrote:

CT GAMER wrote:

The Power Cosmic wrote:It's really not a cheaper game. It was when it started, so that impression has carried over through the years, but it's not really true anymore. No all PP has going for them is an awesome background, superior game rules, excellent quality books, and models that are easily on par with GW.


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malfred wrote:They're standing on 1.5" bases.

Read: 40mm equivalents.

Well when PP makes models/army lists obsolete and brings the total of the PP models I can no longer use to somewhere around the $1500 mark that my GW genestealer cult and LATD are hovering at then I'll worry about the prices of PP models a little more until then I'll just wink and laugh at the GW fanboy trolls like the ones populating this thread...

Have there been that many of them in here yet?

Anyway, you have to admit, they are rather expensive.

Maybe PP got a sneak preview of GW's 2009 report and 'borrowed' the reasoning behind GW's plastic pricing?

Those blighted War spears are bigger and more detailed then GW terminators and most likely more open to varied poses considering the stiffness of design of the terminators. Which is overpriced?

To be honest, $9 to PP or $10 to GW is essentially the same to me, in that I won't pay that much for either model.

GW basically priced me out of new armies the price rise before the most recent one, and PP has priced me out of new stuff with their most recent price hikes.

So I think they're both overpriced.

JohnHwangDD wrote:To be honest, $9 to PP or $10 to GW is essentially the same to me, in that I won't pay that much for either model.

GW basically priced me out of new armies the price rise before the most recent one, and PP has priced me out of new stuff with their most recent price hikes.

So I think they're both overpriced.

QFT. They are both overpriced, and are competetively priced to each other.

You guys talk about overpriced - however take note on this.

If you go to online retailers- Hordes/WM is usually priced cheaper.






Go to the warstore - 38$ can get you a starting force.

Go on ebay - prices are even more cheaper.


Its a much affordable game - besides the superior rules/gameplay.

The game - doesnt have to e played huge army sized as 40k - however you can, if you wanted to.