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GW:"Space marines got too many options to balance, therefore we decided to legends HH units." Players: "why?!? Now we finally got decent plastic kits and you cut them?" Chaos marines players: "Since when are Daemonengines 30k models and why do i have NO droppods now?" GW" MONEY.... erm i meant TOO MANY OPTIONS (to resell your army to you again by disalowing former units)! Do you want specific tyranid fighiting Primaris? Even a new sabotage lieutnant!" Chaos players: Guess i stop playing or go to HH.
I like that the different uniform looks period appropriate yet isn’t the instantly-recognizable uniform I associate with WW2 Germans. Should work well for alternate history and weird war conversions.
Automatically Appended Next Post: also, size comparison of the upcoming conquistadors
From Left to Right: Footsore Roman Civilian, Wargames Atlantic Conquistador, Artizan WW2 German, Wargames Foundry Roman, Wargames Atlantic Conquistador, Warlord Games metal Viking
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I collect:
Grand alliance death (whole alliance)
Stormcast eternals
Slaves to Darkness - currently Nurgle but may expand to undivided.
Depending on the poses, the Prussians (?) could make great space opera troops with a Cannon Fodder head swap. Then I’d have a bunch of cool Prussian heads to put on fantasy miniatures.
It is a shame the conquistadors are Warlord scale. I probably won't pick any up now. I find that size of miniature very unrewarding to paint or kitbash with.
Gallahad wrote: It is a shame the conquistadors are Warlord scale. I probably won't pick any up now. I find that size of miniature very unrewarding to paint or kitbash with.
What scale is that? Smaller than GW? I still don't know, because the comparison pic didn't help...
Gallahad wrote: It is a shame the conquistadors are Warlord scale. I probably won't pick any up now. I find that size of miniature very unrewarding to paint or kitbash with.
What scale is that? Smaller than GW? I still don't know, because the comparison pic didn't help...
They are completely different in proportions from any GW kit. You might be able to pass them off with Oldhammer pre-shoeless plastic Empire, but not with anything current.
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Gallahad wrote: It is a shame the conquistadors are Warlord scale. I probably won't pick any up now. I find that size of miniature very unrewarding to paint or kitbash with.
What scale is that? Smaller than GW? I still don't know, because the comparison pic didn't help...
Yeah, they are both shorter than 5/6 Ed. GW Empire stuff and also smaller proportions (skinnier arms, smaller heads and hands, etc).
By comparison Frostgrave minis are shorter than 6th Ed Empire, but have similar chunky proportions.
Here's a comprasion between a GW traitor Guardsman, a Chaos Space Marine and a Wargames Atlantic Grognard... Defineatly not as horribly incompatibly far off as some people seem to imply.
"Tabletop games are the only setting when a body is made more horrifying for NOT being chopped into smaller pieces."
- Jiado
Wha-Mu-077 wrote: Here's a comprasion between a GW traitor Guardsman, a Chaos Space Marine and a Wargames Atlantic Grognard... Defineatly not as horribly incompatibly far off as some people seem to imply.
They didn't do the conquistadors in their scifi scale (like the Grognards).
Miniatures companies keep on making the same scale mistakes over and over again. Maybe because they are helmed by people whose collection consists in part of old metal historical minis so they assume that people want tiny little barbarians to scale with their collection of Mark Copplestone Grenadier Barbarians from the early 90s ?(looking at you Frostgrave!)
I don't know.
I like to imagine a world where Frostgrave and Oathmark minis are not chibi style and Wargames Atlantic understood that the number of people interested in buying their conquistadors for fantasy gaming far outnumbers the people looking to do pure historical conquistador gaming.
