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 Flinty wrote:
The C3 drones are indeed awesome. Not that I'm using them as drones



The best thing about super cheap sprue of stuff is that you can just do weird stuff without worrying about how much it cost.

Nicely done! That gives me some ideas....

I don't see a generic Warlords news thread so here we are.

From Facebook - The old Wargames Factory plastic skeletons are coming back!

that's good news, even if you don't use them as skeletons, they're ideal for basing stuff

If they are like the samurai, then the sprues will be slightly changed. It’s pictured with 24 skeletons instead of 30 as it is.

I really like that these are plain skeletons (no rags or armour on parts) makes them much quicker to paint in large numbers.
But I always found them really fiddly to put together, the waist joint is a tiny contact point but has to support a lot of the models weight.
Look good once done, and give that Jason and the argonaughts feel with their Greek style weapons.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
I don't see a generic Warlords news thread so here we are.

From Facebook - The old Wargames Factory plastic skeletons are coming back!

There is a orc box set as well (which is weird as they were selling off the orc sprue in their sales during the year).

Both of them are coming out in support of a new Rick Priestley game...

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
I don't see a generic Warlords news thread so here we are.

From Facebook - The old Wargames Factory plastic skeletons are coming back!

Good, I need basing fodder.

Helllllooooo Skeletons! I was waiting for Warlord to bring these back. They're great as a source for plain bone decoration for all sorts of things. Sadly I only managed to get a single box before Wargames Factory went down. Been a long wait.

Ancient Otter wrote:

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
I don't see a generic Warlords news thread so here we are.

From Facebook - The old Wargames Factory plastic skeletons are coming back!

There is a orc box set as well (which is weird as they were selling off the orc sprue in their sales during the year).

Both of them are coming out in support of a new Rick Priestley game...

IIRC they also got the Shock Troopers, they weren't great models, but it was a fun set.

Depends on what Warlord asks for them. At thrice the original price, the Shocks Troops won't be much fun.

I wonder if they have been retooled to not be so damned fiddly, the originals were such a pain.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Depends on what Warlord asks for them. At thrice the original price, the Shocks Troops won't be much fun.

And that is the real question too. What will Warlord ask for these?

If I remember correctly the Apocalypse Survivors' price nearly trebled, when you accounted for reduction of numbers and price increase. I'm hoping they don't do that here...

I am always interested in more skeletons, and have wanted some of these for a while. Being plain means that you can convert them any which way you might like. But also because they come with open right hands, which is fantastic if you want to make conversions.

They are smaller and more spindly than other skeleton miniatures, which is troubling, so I'll have to see how they turn out.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Depends on what Warlord asks for them. At thrice the original price, the Shocks Troops won't be much fun.

The Shock Troops have cool coats and face masks, but the anatomy and posing are certainly not the best. They are fine for generic scary bad guys in various sci-fi skirmish games though. And yeah I would not pay a lot for them, the ones I got were something like $0.7 per model.

Yes, Greek skeletons! Children of the Hydra here I come!

 Taarnak wrote:
If I remember correctly the Apocalypse Survivors' price nearly trebled, when you accounted for reduction of numbers and price increase. I'm hoping they don't do that here...

Same. Would really like to finish off my Tomb Kings and the rags on Mantic skellies don't look the part. But I'm not paying 15 quid for 10.

Hopefully they'll still be low-cost - even beyond my undead army, I've found unadorned-bones skeletons tremendously useful. Especially now that I'm working on Fallout terrain and I don't have much of my original stock of WGF sprues remaining.

 Psychopomp wrote:
Hopefully they'll still be low-cost - even beyond my undead army, I've found unadorned-bones skeletons tremendously useful. Especially now that I'm working on Fallout terrain and I don't have much of my original stock of WGF sprues remaining.

Hopefully. A price increase over Wargames Factory is inevitable, but maybe the skeletons will be a horde unit in that fantasy game and priced accordingly.

Both those and the Orcs are at £20 for 24 models. Not worth it in my opinion. Equally Wand Action definitely has my interest!

The Orcs are some of my favorites. I will probably buy some more at some point. Their hands aren't great, but their faces and proportions are fantastic.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
I don't see a generic Warlords news thread so here we are.

From Facebook - The old Wargames Factory plastic skeletons are coming back!

Wait, what??? Anybody know anything about this game?

http://wargameterrain.blogspot.com/2018/11/breaking-warlord-games-new-warlords-of.html Called Warlords of Erewhon and seems to be Gates of Antares/ Bolt Action in a Fantasy Setting. I'm well up for it!

 Llamahead wrote:
http://wargameterrain.blogspot.com/2018/11/breaking-warlord-games-new-warlords-of.html Called Warlords of Erewhon and seems to be Gates of Antares/ Bolt Action in a Fantasy Setting. I'm well up for it!

Wonder if there will be a samurai force in this world .

Probably some Amazons, too, eh?

What does 24 pounds translate to in USD according to Warlord? $30? $35?

It seems like a mistake to charge more than $1 per skeleton.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Probably some Amazons, too, eh?

What does 24 pounds translate to in USD according to Warlord? $30? $35?

It seems like a mistake to charge more than $1 per skeleton.

they are worse than Mantic $40

$40 for 24 skeletons?

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
$40 for 24 skeletons?

You get bases too Bob , but a quick look on their web page and switching back and forth on currencies had a £23.50 box being $38.00.

There will most likely be cards, dice, tokens etc.

That's just terrible. On the plus side, in two years they might be selling the sprues for $1.50 each...

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
That's just terrible. On the plus side, in two years they might be selling the sprues for $1.50 each...

Yup, that's when I think I'd want to pick them up. At the price they are asking it's too much. Oh well.