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Woo, retrieved my copy from the post office this morning. First impressions, that's a lot of plastic, really that is a lot of plastic. The box is about the same size as a typical GW starter box and it is absolutely packed with plastic sprues. I think the main reason there's no dice or tape measure in this box set which would be all that's needed to make it a traditional starter set is because there's simply no space for them.

Had a quick peruse of the rules. They look interesting and very simple (no surprise given the designer), no army lists but the 6 scenarios in the book have apparently been designed with the contents of the box in mind. There are 4 types of unit in the game infantry, cavalry, generals and artillery and that's it. So there's quite a lot of abstraction going on with no difference between say regular infantry and zouaves or different types of artillery. However for 11 A5 sized pages of rules of which 3 are the scenarios it's got a lot of potential.

Sounds good. I look forward to them doing more

Woot! Mine came 3 days ago. Zouaves a little weird inclusion. Not what I was expecting. Had to educate myself on them. Sounded like a poor idea in the ACW. 97% casualty or something...

Got mine a few days ago too. I was also surprised the Zouaves were in there, as well as the Confedrate-specific sprues for the South. I just assumed all the infantry would be the generic Civil War kit that Perry makes.

Everything looks great though, and the rules are quick and easy. Probably too simplistic for some, but I like simple these days!

My box has been sitting at the Post Office since Tuesday, so it should be in my grubby hands this afternoon. Not sure what happened, but sometime in the last year the historical bug has bitten me hard. I find myself waiting in anticipation for the AWI "Liberty or Death" battle box from Warlord.

I'm waiting for Warlord to stock the Perry box so I can order it. (free shipping wins out)

Warstore has it in stock right now for $158 shipped.

Changed the title to make this a more general Perry Miniatures thread.

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Imperialist Brits and scruffy foreigner types incoming!

Plastic British Infantry update.
We received the first shots of the command frame from Renedra at the weekend for the British Infantry 1877-85 Afghanistan/Sudan. They will still need a little tweaking but just about there and Renedra have again done us proud! The intention is to release them at Salute (16th April), so fingers crossed. We’ve included a few pictures of them hurriedly stuck together over the weekend.
You’ll notice that there is a Free metal figure that we’re giving away to customers buying 3 boxes of the Brits.
Michael’s also started on some metal Afghan’s to complement them. These will be part of a range we’re calling ‘Victoria’s Little Wars’ (VLW) and include occasional dips into various smaller wars of her reign. Any figures from other ranges that would overlap will be pointed out, for example, some of the shell jacketed infantry we’re producing for the up coming Cape Frontier Wars range can be used with the jezail armed Afghans for the First Afghan War.

the nice thing about those Afghan models is they can also be used wargames set in the 2010s...

And the 2050s at the rate things are going