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Re: Great War British

So there are two types of forage caps, brodie helmets, turbans for the Army of the Raj, but what type of hat are the heads just below the turban heads wearing? It looks kind of like a deerstalker, but deerstalkers are civilian hunter's caps, not military headgear. Tam o'shanters would make sense for Highland regiments, but that hat does not look like a Tam o'shanter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Army_uniform_and_equipment_in_World_War_I

 Ancestral Hamster wrote:
Re: Great War British

So there are two types of forage caps, brodie helmets, turbans for the Army of the Raj, but what type of hat are the heads just below the turban heads wearing? It looks kind of like a deerstalker, but deerstalkers are civilian hunter's caps, not military headgear. Tam o'shanters would make sense for Highland regiments, but that hat does not look like a Tam o'shanter.

They're winter caps I believe.

 Arbitrator wrote:

They're winter caps I believe.

Thank you. It certainly seems so. Have not seen those before.

I hadn't realized how much I wanted a bunch of sludgy Brits in gas masks all toting steampunk Lewis ray guns until now.

Thanks a lot Wargames Atlantic!

Everytime I open this thread, I leave wanting to start an imperial guard army with whatever they kit they have previewed.

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
I hadn't realized how much I wanted a bunch of sludgy Brits in gas masks all toting steampunk Lewis ray guns until now.

Thanks a lot Wargames Atlantic!

Wait for the Space Brits!

Some of mine will now be held waiting for the Sikh heads to turn up for Space Sikhs!


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 Galas wrote:
Everytime I open this thread, I leave wanting to start an imperial guard army with whatever they kit they have previewed.

Do it. I dare you!

Les Grognards are the most fully rounded at the moment with Command and Heavy Weapon options but with patience, the same treatment should be handed out to all of the Death Fields range.

The goblins look cool. I may get a box for the rider legs and some of the arms to make some halfling mounted heroes. Bought one of the wizkids d&d griffons with that in mind,

Yeah, really liking the goblins, compatibility with the spider rider kit to make spider riders is great and 20 head options on a 5-man sprue is really going above and beyond, creates an opportunity to reserve different ones for different units. I could picture making a small unit of goblin elites using lots of the enclosed helm head.

Spoilt for choice with goblins now with WA, oathmark and mantic all having good options at reasonable price points.

Oathmark and WA are perfect for LotR, with the WA having more of the "chaotic nasty bitey" look to them rather than the more uniform, serious look of the oathmark goblins, might be possible to have oathmark goblins as orcs/warg riders, and WA as moria goblins. A box each of WA gobbos/spiders and Oathmark gobbos/wolfboyz and you'd have a huge horde going with cross-compatible bitz for a fraction of the cost of buying from GW.

For more heroic scale or comedy goblins (WHFB), Mantic gobbos probably fit the bill better. Great to have such choice, especially after so long with either monopose or giant hands plastic gobbos from GW as the only option.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
We need a WW1 version of Turnip/Sludge

Sludge is already the WW1 version of Turnip (well, more like "WW1 without machine guns/a couple years before WW1, because including machine guns would push the game in a direction I don't want to take it" version of Turnip).

That hat was also known as the 'gor blimey' hat, as it was a shapeless mess.

There's been quite a bit of direct feedback on the FB page that the shape (or lack thereof) of the hat isn't quite right, and the battledress isn't right for Sikhs, apparently.

It'll be interesting to see what revisions are made. I was hoping for a few leather jerkins in the set, they were highly sought after items of kit and they just look cool.

I'm glad I held off on starting building armies for through the mud and blood, though there's a good chance these will make it into my Guard as Roane Deepers.

chaos0xomega wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
We need a WW1 version of Turnip/Sludge

Sludge is already the WW1 version of Turnip (well, more like "WW1 without machine guns/a couple years before WW1, because including machine guns would push the game in a direction I don't want to take it" version of Turnip).

I think Lord Blackfang means less Miyazaki's Nausicaa, more Franchina's Trench Crusade

Any news on the Conquistadores?

And what the heck is Death Fields Accessory Sprue!

 lord_blackfang wrote:
And what the heck is Death Fields Accessory Sprue!

I'm hoping for just a huge number of pouches, backpacks, holsters, canteens, etc. plus maybe a few special weapons, so that future DF kits can save a bit of space on their sprues by simply throwing one of these into the box.
Alternatively, it could be mostly a generic heavy weapons sprue, so that future kits just need to include a couple of arms and kneeling legs to make HW teams.
A battlefield terrain sprue of crates, barrels, and so on, would be nice, but I think that's covered well enough by other companies.
Vehicle stowage would be fine too, but again done well by other companies and a bit weird for a company which doesn't make any actual vehicle kits.

 Perfect Organism wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
And what the heck is Death Fields Accessory Sprue!

I'm hoping for just a huge number of pouches, backpacks, holsters, canteens, etc. plus maybe a few special weapons, so that future DF kits can save a bit of space on their sprues by simply throwing one of these into the box.
Alternatively, it could be mostly a generic heavy weapons sprue, so that future kits just need to include a couple of arms and kneeling legs to make HW teams.
A battlefield terrain sprue of crates, barrels, and so on, would be nice, but I think that's covered well enough by other companies.
Vehicle stowage would be fine too, but again done well by other companies and a bit weird for a company which doesn't make any actual vehicle kits.

I would buy any of these, in multiples.

Didn't Eisenkern have a kit that was just bits and the little robot mule? Before they came over from Dreamforge.
I swear it existed but I can't find any evidence of it, did I dream it up?
Because a sprue of guns, pouches, trench shovels, etc would be amazing. I'd buy multiples.

PourSpelur wrote:
Didn't Eisenkern have a kit that was just bits and the little robot mule?

They did indeed. There was a Command box and an Accessory Set.

beast_gts wrote:

PourSpelur wrote:
Didn't Eisenkern have a kit that was just bits and the little robot mule?

They did indeed. There was a Command box and an Accessory Set.

Spoiler:

There was also a Support Weapons set with a field gun, triple-barrel mortar and 4-barrel cannon/Flak cannon, plus 9 crew.

 Momotaro wrote:

beast_gts wrote:

PourSpelur wrote:
Didn't Eisenkern have a kit that was just bits and the little robot mule?

They did indeed. There was a Command box and an Accessory Set.

Spoiler:

There was also a Support Weapons set with a field gun, triple-barrel mortar and 4-barrel cannon/Flak cannon, plus 9 crew.

WGA already does something very similar to that, so who knows.

 Perfect Organism wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
And what the heck is Death Fields Accessory Sprue!

I'm hoping for just a huge number of pouches, backpacks, holsters, canteens, etc. plus maybe a few special weapons, so that future DF kits can save a bit of space on their sprues by simply throwing one of these into the box.
Alternatively, it could be mostly a generic heavy weapons sprue, so that future kits just need to include a couple of arms and kneeling legs to make HW teams.

Here's hoping you are correct, sir! Yet more useful bits for kit-bashing!

Don't forget, Eisenkern should finally be getting a challenger soon with the totally not Spaec Soviets.

 Perfect Organism wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
And what the heck is Death Fields Accessory Sprue!

I'm hoping for just a huge number of pouches, backpacks, holsters, canteens, etc. plus maybe a few special weapons, so that future DF kits can save a bit of space on their sprues by simply throwing one of these into the box.
Alternatively, it could be mostly a generic heavy weapons sprue, so that future kits just need to include a couple of arms and kneeling legs to make HW teams.
A battlefield terrain sprue of crates, barrels, and so on, would be nice, but I think that's covered well enough by other companies.
Vehicle stowage would be fine too, but again done well by other companies and a bit weird for a company which doesn't make any actual vehicle kits.

If it doesn't have cheese to go with the Les Grognards Command wine bottles, it's not worth tooling!

Romans are shipping, as are panzerjager.

The release schedule has also been updated

 lord marcus wrote:
Romans are shipping, as are panzerjager.

The release schedule has also been updated

All good news but let us talk about cheese on the Death Fields accessory sprue.

If not cheese, any snippets on the general content of the kit?

I certainly would enjoy space cheese on my accessory sprue, would go well with the space French.

And space wine, but spelled wyne so it's futuristic.

Racerguy180 wrote:
And space wine, but spelled wyne so it's futuristic.

Actually, humorously enough, i think the Grognard heavy weapons kit already comes with a bottle of wine.

 Wha-Mu-077 wrote:

Racerguy180 wrote:
And space wine, but spelled wyne so it's futuristic.

Actually, humorously enough, i think the Grognard heavy weapons kit already comes with a bottle of wine.

That’s the joke.

I believe the space cheese will probably come with the space ratmen. The bases will all be the long rectangular cavalry bases and there will be enough casualty figures in the set to lay on the flat bases and use sprue to turn the base into a futuristic mouse trap. It should also have tiny chef hats for the space mice to serve the cheese to the space Frenchmen with the wyne from les grognards.

So, anyone else get the email that shows a Not-Olog Hai and the Not-Blood Beret teaser?

I can't paste the photo from the email but both look pretty damned sweet!

 KidCthulhu wrote:
So, anyone else get the email that shows a Not-Olog Hai and the Not-Blood Beret teaser?

I can't paste the photo from the email but both look pretty damned sweet!

Ya mean these two? Yeah, look pretty sweet. I wonder if the Not-Olog is what their eventual Landsknecht Ogres will be based on, body and proportions-wise.