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''One of our newest Atlantic Digital releases is coming to hard plastic! The SneakFeet!''

Good news! I hope this means a bacon and sticky buns sprue is in the offing.

I like those bullpup designs a lot.

Great! Great sculpts and great that they're not only snipers.

That seems like a very short time from digital release to announcing plans to do them in plastic. I guess they were a big hit.

 Gallahad wrote:
I like those bullpup designs a lot.

Are they bullpups or FN90-style horizontal magazines?

Do we still have time to put in what sprue rewards we would like? Been out of touch with a trip and a medical issue.

 legionaires wrote:
Do we still have time to put in what sprue rewards we would like? Been out of touch with a trip and a medical issue.

Are you saying you got a legionaires disease?

Thank you, I'll see myself out...

In seriousness, hope you are well.

 legionaires wrote:
Do we still have time to put in what sprue rewards we would like? Been out of touch with a trip and a medical issue.

I amended mine yesterday, changing the male Cannon Fodder weapon sprue to Female Cannon Fodder sprues.

May as well get some extra bodies and the lasrifles rather than just the lasrifles.

 legionaires wrote:
Do we still have time to put in what sprue rewards we would like? Been out of touch with a trip and a medical issue.

Yes the gamefound pledge manager is up and running and you can select you rewards from the crowd funder, add extra money, or sign up if you didn't get round to it when the project was live

(you'll need to delete your old reward selection then re-add it to get the correct number of extra sprues if you hadn't realised yet as the gamefound software couldn't cope will adding stuff to an already selected reward)

From the latest newsletter:
"Product Reviews

Karl has been diligently getting our website up to snuff and adding features (more on that next week!) and one of the latest additions is Product Reviews!

Now each product page has a section for you to add your reviews of our figures.

To celebrate adding this late 1990s feature to the site we are going to be choosing 3 reviewers each month to receive a free box set or digital product of their choice!

So pop over to a product you already own and leave a review for a chance at fame and fortune!

Also be nice or you'll make our mothers cry."

Thinking on changing my pledge, what did the free sprue of grognards commands have?

the Grognards have a combined command.heavy weapons sprue

Skeleton Cavalry and Chariots. https://wargamesatlantic.com/blogs/news/skeleton-cavalry

Sorry for jumping in with a question that may have been covered but - any idea when the Damned stuff will be made and shipped? first time i've done a crowdfunder, not sure how it works.

 PaddyMick wrote:
Sorry for jumping in with a question that may have been covered but - any idea when the Damned stuff will be made and shipped? first time i've done a crowdfunder, not sure how it works.

The delivery date on Gamefound is May 2024, so they've got a bit of time. I'm sure we'll get updates as production goes along.

They said at the beginning of the crowdfunding that May 24 was a backstop, and they hoped to be able to deliver well before that,

but the project did end up unlocking an awful lot of stuff so i'm inclined to think May 24 is probably a realistic date if everything goes well

Thanks. Have you pledged? i'm in it for the ogryns

Yes for 2 three box deals which is going to be the best part of an army when you add in all the freebies

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Derek H wrote:
Skeleton Cavalry and Chariots. https://wargamesatlantic.com/blogs/news/skeleton-cavalry

Ooh. That looks very interesting. I might find myself needing some of those.

Well, I was finally able to add another 5 box deal... so I am done now.

* Terrae Motus armored vehicle x 2
* The Damned Heavy Infantry
* The Damned Beastmen
* The Damned Hounds

* The Damned Command Sprue x 5
* The Damned Artillery Sprue x 2
* The Damned Weapons Team Sprue x 3
* The Damned Brutes Sprue x 4
* The Damned Outriders Sprue x 4
* The Damned Hounds Sprue x 3

 Shadow Walker wrote:
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I was hoping some history buff would tell us what this is by now so I don't have to make an idiot of myself by guessing

It looks death fields related to me. Sword, grenade, and a ton of WW2 looking pouches?

Machete and grenade both look WW1 to me

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 Shadow Walker wrote:
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I was hoping some history buff would tell us what this is by now so I don't have to make an idiot of myself by guessing

It looks very much like Chinese (a Dadao) as shape is fairly distinctive

can't tell you if it's wwi or wwii period as it was in use in both

maybe chinese civil war troops? it was a conflict largely occurring between ww1 and ww2 (when the fighting largely got put on hold due to the japanese invasion) before starting back up after ww2.
looking at some of the pictures of the troops from that conflict, the uniform and grenade looks like it could from that place and period. at least for the Republic of China forces.(the communist forces used such gear too thanks to theft and salvage, but were less uniform in outfits due to being mostly guerillas.)
and i could see them doing Republic of China forces from their roughly ww2 period as a way to add some variety to their "worlds ablaze" line.

The cap at the bottom of the grenade's stick looks really distinctive, but doesn't match any I know of. I'm fairly sure it isn't British or German, but I don't know of any other countries which used stick-grenades (which weren't just using copies of British or German ones). I guess it could be a very, very bulked up version of the M1917 Stielhandgranate's lobed cap.

The row of six pouches across the belly also seems pretty specific and I'm sure I've seen it before but I can't remember where. Most rigs like that have five pouches or a buckle splitting two blocks of three. Could maybe be something intended as a bandolier worn in an unconventional way?

By the 20th Century, I'd expect that kind of 'falchion' sword to only be found in or near China. It does look pretty spot-on for a big dao, but there were similar swords in other cultures.

For what it's worth, Osprey Men-at-Arms 306 (Chinese Civil War Armies) has an illustration (colour plate C) which includes a Chinese nationalist soldier wearing something fairly similar; the collar and pouches aren't identical, but I could believe they were both based on the same source.

 Shadow Walker wrote:
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The arrangement of the bandolier reminds me of the ones used for SKS/Type 56 ammunition and I can see the uniform working for NVA. Don't know about the sword though

The webbing is definitely Chinese.

So Chinese of some kind is highly probable, the question is just what time period.