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With plastic Empire archers coming I fear the end is nigh!

They're my favorite plastic kit.

Nah. Nothing else to use as Miltia, and they are a pretty popular unit.

We might see new ones coming in the future, but retiring them before a replacement makes no sense. Unless the Archers can be built as Miltia?

I doubt that archers are to be used as militia, they look too uniform for that.

Besides, the militia kit never had enough parts for a full detachment / regiment of archers or crossbow men anyway.

I may well order a few boxes now - don't want to run out of troops for my IG army!!!

I hope they do, honestly. The Militia kit is repackaged Mordheim models that are good for conversions and little else-- they simply aren't suited towards ranking up at all.

Fetterkey wrote:I hope they do, honestly. The Militia kit is repackaged Mordheim models that are good for conversions and little else-- they simply aren't suited towards ranking up at all.

But they are great for IG conversions!

Fetterkey wrote:I hope they do, honestly. The Militia kit is repackaged Mordheim models that are good for conversions and little else-- they simply aren't suited towards ranking up at all.

Mine rank up just fine. Of course, I kept ranking in mind as I built them so...

Yeah, they rank pretty well if you put them on regimental bases. of course, I just built a few detachments of 8 men a piece.

I certainly hope not; the figs are great for Mordheim and other skirmish fantasy games, as well as conversion fodder. And they rank up fine, I'm sure.

Yeah, I hope they're not going OOP. It's one of those kits I've been meaning to pick up for a long time, but haven't got around to it yet...hopefully they're not going anywhere!

I doubt they'd discontinue them without a shiny new Empire Militia boxed set with extra (x2) puffy pants.

Fetterkey wrote:I hope they do, honestly. The Militia kit is repackaged Mordheim models that are good for conversions and little else--

They're good for Mordheim! I hope they don't discontinue them. I love all of those weapons options.