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For those who are on a budget and don't mind their table looking like it's covered in flea market junk, here's a nice thread with some awful toys repainted for wargaming terrain. It would match those aforementioned castles quite well

http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=415071



It even comes with similar-quality figures to the knights from the previous castle - two armies ready to do battle! Pull out your faded copy of Hordes of the Things or snag a photocopied copy from someone (since it's been out of print for years) and get to gaming!

Your links don't work.

I have done it before with club terrain and it works perfectly fine, as good as commercial terrain I have bought in fact. It just takes some work.

As I said, I am sure they work fine, especially paired with their matching armies. A few gloss coats of Humbrol, terrible eyesight, and a fiddly outdated ruleset and you're good to go.

I propose a new thread in general discussion for "Dollar/Pound Stores & Flea Market Armies" where discussions like this can live - as the quality of the posts and toys go hand in hand. Especially since this is the Warlord Games Historicals News & Rumors thread. Now why were we talking about discount ugly toy castles in the Warlord Games Historicals N&R thread in the first place? I hear it's a bannable offense to post offtopic spam 'round these parts.

 Dawnbringer wrote:

 Kilkrazy wrote:
I was going to say that looks rather jolly and two or three kits of that would be a good basis for converting into a fairly realistic historical castle.

Then I saw the price. What a Ripoff!!

Children's toy castles are far cheaper and just as good.

That looks rather like the now defunct Tabletop Workshop stuff.

As for the price Renedra's soon to be released castle will run ~£250 though I think it will work out to be a larger castle. If you've got knowledge of toy castles that are actually just as good and not just "I'm content that they are usable for the price" then please share.

Considering the Warhammer Mighty Fortress by GW (of all retailers) was $99 until they pulled it from their webshop, the proliferation of $300+ plastic castles is ridiculous. Plastic is supposed to reduce the price, right? LoL?

I'm impressed with the castles, less so with the prices. I've also been less than imprssed with Warlord's pricing, particularly for all of their acquired lines.

Here we go, I made a thread for all Dakka users and mods alike to post in without having to clutter up actual News & Rumor threads with off-topic posts.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/686863.page

The thing about not updating the army books is annoying. There are historical issues in some of the lists that still haven't been addressed by Warlord.

Those Walmart toys have better proportions than the Bolt Action Russians, and all their other historicals I assume. I can see why you wouldn't want people to see any more of them. It would be like posting a link to the Batman Busy Book figures in the Official Batman Miniatures thread.

Anyway, when will they release the WGF Samurai kits? The old WGF kits might get me to order from them again.

The warlord castle looks great, but might as well be made from faberge eggs for the cost. If I had any space between my Smaug, my Imperator Titan and my Tau Manta, I'd order my servants to fetch one at once.

 Cruentus wrote:
Considering the Warhammer Mighty Fortress by GW (of all retailers) was $99 until they pulled it from their webshop, the proliferation of $300+ plastic castles is ridiculous. Plastic is supposed to reduce the price, right? LoL?

I love the Warhammer Fortress. It's great for solid terrain. Low quality details from a two-sided steel tool. Got the job done. I have one set plus several extra towers and walls. As soon as you introduce more complex tooling, and then fully detailed interiors, the price goes up. Those towers were sold for £30 apiece, for a fully detailed tower. For only £55 more, one gets three walls and a gate (which was Warhammer Fortress pricing for additional walls and gates). If you don't need fully detailed interiors, there's other options - well, at least, hard foam or resin options. Or toy store junk. I know it's a stretch, but it's like the same with miniatures. you want the best sculpted monsters on the planet? You get Mierce. Or you could be happy with using a flea market 25 cent Masters of the Universe Mossman as your army's monster.


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 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Anyway, when will they release the WGF Samurai kits? The old WGF kits might get me to order from them again.

Ya got me. The sprues are available on the website I think.

 judgedoug wrote:
Here we go, I made a thread for all Dakka users and mods alike to post in without having to clutter up actual News & Rumor threads with off-topic posts.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/686863.page

That you essentially started with your misguided attacks on people's re purposing toys as quality wargaming terrain?

 Silent Puffin? wrote:
Your links don't work.

I have done it before with club terrain and it works perfectly fine, as good as commercial terrain I have bought in fact. It just takes some work.

If it's as good as professional made commercial terrain then by all means post pics in the thread JudgeDoug made and prove him wrong. I for one would actually like to see that kind of ingenuity. Besides without pics it didn't happen and you're just PUFFIN hot air .... did you see what I did there?

Wow, this escalated quickly...

 Polonius wrote:
Wow, this escalated quickly...

I don't see any escalation. All I see is posters providing an opinion about a news item from Warlord Games. I see it all the time in every.single.GW.thread. Its apparently fine there, but not okay here. Whatever.

Back on topic, please - and in the future instead of "taking things into your own hands" just hit the yellow triangle and we'll check it out!

Thanks all

 DrNo172000 wrote:

If it's as good as professional made commercial terrain then by all means post pics in the thread JudgeDoug made and prove him wrong.

Given that a mod has locked it that would be difficult

If I get some gaps in my painting schedule over the summer I will see if I can knock out another one.

I hope this means the smaller generic buildings (medieval merchant's house, chapel) that Tabletop Workshop developed are also released.

That would be very welcome!

 Silent Puffin? wrote:

 DrNo172000 wrote:

If it's as good as professional made commercial terrain then by all means post pics in the thread JudgeDoug made and prove him wrong.

Given that a mod has locked it that would be difficult

If I get some gaps in my painting schedule over the summer I will see if I can knock out another one.

It's actually a solid idea for a thread if started with a calmer first post. I'm happoy to (re)start it, but which subforum should it go into?

 Azazelx wrote:

 Silent Puffin? wrote:

 DrNo172000 wrote:

If it's as good as professional made commercial terrain then by all means post pics in the thread JudgeDoug made and prove him wrong.

Given that a mod has locked it that would be difficult

If I get some gaps in my painting schedule over the summer I will see if I can knock out another one.

It's actually a solid idea for a thread if started with a calmer first post. I'm happoy to (re)start it, but which subforum should it go into?

Discussions i guess

Did anyone notice on the Bolt Action forums that the theatre specific books are now at an end and they will revisit specific operations like Barbarossa to fill out some more details? Personally I'm quite excited about this as that's how I tend to game and build lists - it would be pretty sweet to get scenarios based on actual key battles linking into a larger campaign

 Jehan-reznor wrote:

 Azazelx wrote:

 Silent Puffin? wrote:

 DrNo172000 wrote:

If it's as good as professional made commercial terrain then by all means post pics in the thread JudgeDoug made and prove him wrong.

Given that a mod has locked it that would be difficult

If I get some gaps in my painting schedule over the summer I will see if I can knock out another one.

It's actually a solid idea for a thread if started with a calmer first post. I'm happoy to (re)start it, but which subforum should it go into?

Discussions i guess

I'm not sure about that. Perhaps Painting and Modelling: General? discussions tends to be a catch-all for any random junk, so it'd be lost amongst discussion about GW's financials and Kirby/Rountree blahblahetc.

As for the BA books, I hope we don't see many reprints. I've recently bought a ton of the books (I had Germany and the 1e RB for ages, of course) but I'd rather not see more purchases invalidated. Additional books I'm fine with, just not a lot of 2e ones.

Castle conversion thread started...

I am no longer updating this thread for Dakka.

The Waterloo boxed set is up for preorder.

122 Infantry
12 Cavalry
1 Artillery Piece/War Machine
4 Crew



All that for £70, beat that GW!

That's pretty cool but damn id be painting that lot for the next 10yrs, if you guys at warlord can put that out maybe you can pull something out even greater for bolt action v2.

Ps just noticed in the pic that the French troops look like napoleons old guard. Weren't they his elite guards. God now I'm tempted.

No, standard infantry of the line, Old Guard looks different.

The Set itself looks good, but it would have been better if both sides got an artillery piece.

So very glad I'm not interested in Napoleonics. Else I'd be caught buying 2 or 3 of those sets.

 Azazelx wrote:
So very glad I'm not interested in Napoleonics. Else I'd be caught buying 2 or 3 of those sets.

Much the same to be honest. Nappies is just about the only period I'm not interested in

 kodos wrote:
No, standard infantry of the line, Old Guard looks different.

The Set itself looks good, but it would have been better if both sides got an artillery piece.

Ah fair enough, my knowledge of the nap era is limited. Agree about the arty piece mind.

That's good set. I've got more than enough waterloo stuff to make this a pass, but it'll be good for tempting those people who wanna play but not use my stuff all of the time (I nornally provide for all players)

I wonder if the quick start booklet included is actually useful for a change.. Their previous starters haven't exactly been that helpful, aside from a leaflet telling you to read through the rulebook to learn the game.