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WGF has plastic chariots out for the Celts

http://www.wargamesfactory.com/AnnouncementRetrieve.aspx?ID=21979






Quality looks pretty good, I have no use for them but it raises my hopes for some of their Liberty Union projects.

Good for Warhammer Historical maybe...

Their brittish firing line would be excellent IGs.

Three chariots for $20? With Plenty of variations in drivers, crew, and horses?

I think I may be working hard to come up with a way to use these.

Polonius wrote:Three chariots for $20? With Plenty of variations in drivers, crew, and horses?

I think I may be working hard to come up with a way to use these.

YOU HAVE A WOMANS LOGIC MY LORD!

'Well, it was 20% off so I bought three. Just think of the savings'

Simple, Tomb Kings Barrow Kings

Celtic Skeletal Charriot Horde! :-)

Nobody saw the eye candy on that first sprew.

I'm loving those Celts. I might pick some up to use in historicals and Celtos.

Any reason to have big breasted women running around the battlefield is a fine way to sell miniatures!

(I'll take two).

Could that be Boudica?

Hm, the Warlord Games metal chariots look finer, but they're £12 each. Not a bad deal for the price, these.

Plus, Plastic > Metal.

Eye candy? I think, as BrookM points out, that is a warrior ala Boudicca. Celt women were often fierce fighters. Even if they weren't front line infantry (which there is no indication they commonly were), they would skulk the fields to kill the injured and dying enemy and save wounded Celts. Women also apparently often served a role as Celtic spiritual leaders, so would be inspiring from a non military angle as well.

Yeah but I think they commonly wore more clothes than that. And probably were slightly less curvaceous.

Celts were to put it subtly fething nuts when they went to battle.

BrookM wrote:Celts were to put it subtly fething nuts when they went to battle.

Aye... it was very common for them not to wear clothing at all in fact.

Not all of them.

Those are cool, I like all the various head options. And three chariots for $20? Cool minis, sweet price. This boxed set is win.

Erm....The Celts didn't exist until the 1700's when somebody called them that, and it stuck.

The Romans referred to the people now regarded as Celts as 'Britonni'

I think you mean "The word "Celts" did not exist as the appellation for the peoples of Britania until the 1700s, when someone called them that." There are quite a few Romans who would have loved to tell you about just how much they existed

Still, nomenclature aside, they existed, and that's what we call them now.

At anyrate, those are nice models, and I fully expect to see them making their way into conversions for Daemon and Warriors of Chaos armies. Maybe even mine

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Erm....The Celts didn't exist until the 1700's when somebody called them that, and it stuck.

The Romans referred to the people now regarded as Celts as 'Britonni'

Also refers to many tribes on the european continent, not just Britain. Gauls were coexisting with Celt peoples for a time, were they not?

According to my QI Book of General Ignorance (a very handy item for those who ventureonto the Web!) The term 'Celt' was first used by a group of 'Bards' on the 21st June, 1792.

The Romans referred to the peoples of what is now Great Britain* and Ireland simply as Brittani. The word Celt was coined by the Greek Historian Herodotus in 450 B.C. when he described the peoples of the head waters of the Danube north of the Alps......

The price is right. Too bad I don't do ancients.

Still, after a slow start, it's nice to see Wargames Factory catching up fast.

What did they call themselves?

The greeks called them Keltoi which is supposed to be close to what the Celts called themselves. The ancient Romans and Greeks called anyone who spoke what we today regard as a celtic language a Celt. Gaul was an area where Celts lived, but some non-Celts lived in Gaul and not all Celts lived in Gaul. I don't believe any of the professionals have yet agreed on what the difference, if any, between a celt and a gaul was.
They likely called themselves by their tribal name such as the Parisii, Boii, Senones, Dumnonii, Redones, Menapii.

On nakedness, it is likely that the naked fighters belonged to a warrior cult and fought as a group as is recorded at the battle of Telemon. The bulk of celts are not said to have fought naked, certainly by the time of Julius Ceasar they had given up the practice.

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:According to my QI Book of General Ignorance (a very handy item for those who ventureonto the Web!) The term 'Celt' was first used by a group of 'Bards' on the 21st June, 1792.

Beware such works. I find that often books and magazines designed to for such things (such as Mental Floss here in the states) are themselves riddled with errors, or at best controversial statements made as fact. Generally it seems that they look up a book or two on the subject identified as often misunderstood and give a definitive answer without checking multiple sources and the like. With history especially that can be a direct road to "Whoops, not quite so!" as many different hypothesis are put forward as fact with relatively little to back them up.

I find they are great for trivia, but more obscure information is often just as questionable as talking to anyone who has read a book or two on a subject. (As opposed to doing serious research into a subject.)

syr8766 wrote:The price is right. Too bad I don't do ancients.

I'm in the same boat. I'm trying to con some friends into playing Warhammer Ancients so I have an excuse to buy Wargames Factory Celts

Wehrkind wrote:

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:According to my QI Book of General Ignorance (a very handy item for those who ventureonto the Web!) The term 'Celt' was first used by a group of 'Bards' on the 21st June, 1792.

Beware such works. I find that often books and magazines designed to for such things (such as Mental Floss here in the states) are themselves riddled with errors, or at best controversial statements made as fact. Generally it seems that they look up a book or two on the subject identified as often misunderstood and give a definitive answer without checking multiple sources and the like. With history especially that can be a direct road to "Whoops, not quite so!" as many different hypothesis are put forward as fact with relatively little to back them up.

I find they are great for trivia, but more obscure information is often just as questionable as talking to anyone who has read a book or two on a subject. (As opposed to doing serious research into a subject.)

It's been awhile since I read anything properly on the celts, but from what I remember, it was during the 18th century that people starting becoming more interested in history and regarding ancient finds as history rather than as treasure. The celts were rediscovered, and anyone who spoke a celtic language was then called a celt. The debate today being whether the people back then would have called themselves such, I mean we don't today call anyone who can speak english English, even if they follow a similar culture unless they are actually from England or at lest English ancestry.
Such distinctions are not made in generalised websites which can include mistakes from other websites.
I've come across several websites which claim that celts had dreadlocks and they even put a vague reference to Julius Caesar. The words tend to be identical on the sites though suggesting that the (mis)information came from one source and most of the sites are connected to tattoo shops which is hardly a place to get historically correct info from but people do.
Caesar of course said nothing of the kind, he said their hair was waving like a horse's mane, not like snakes as was claimed.

To put it bluntly, the internet is full of crap, the trick is to find the real information. I actually find wiki quite useful for that as even if the article itself is dubious, it often gives enough information to do another more refined search.