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Feels great to have finally reached the cutoff date looking forward to receive the new army in 2025

 Easy E wrote:
I am very happy with my Ancient Chariots of the two-horse variety and even bought and built a set all ready! I even bought a box of your Persians for the crew.



I am curious if there is any chance of a 4-horse chariot? Such things were common in the Chariot Age, and were used by Hittites, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Chinese, Carthaginians, the Roman games, and more! A generic set like this one would be amazing!

A sprue for Scything would be great too!

Thanks! I'm certain we'll have a 4-horser at some point although probably not this year!

It's finally time to show you the City Folk plastic sprue that goes alongside the City Guards I showed off earlier.
There are 6 bodies - 3 male and 3 female, covering the wealthy, average and poor, and a number of 'dress-up' items like capes, satchels, scarves and aprons that change the look significantly, plus of course loads of different heads.
There is a large variety of open hands in different poses, designed to fit all the many, many small items on the sprue - a teapot, bunch of flowers, fish, cleaver, scroll, book, snake, bucket, smoking pipe, owl and lots more. It's going to be an incredibly useful kit!
The sprue has been made by Wargames Atlantic, sculpted by Rob Macfarlane - so it will mix perfectly with things like the new Peasant Levy set.
NB the pirate-looking chap in the pics uses parts from the Guards sprue.


city folk for Guards of Traitor's Toll

Love these. Will definitely get at least a box or 2. Hope the puddle bases don't kill these for some of you. Wonder how many you will get in a box. Hoping for 4 sprues... (24) for around the normal WA of $34.95- $39.95.

Edit: Confirmed on Facebook. 4 sprues. So 24 to a box

Only need a box myself for the moment. Want them for Deth Wizards, a skirmish game where you play a necromancer either PvP, co-op, or solo. On the Deth Wizards sub-reddit, they posted the number of NPCs you'd need at max, so 15 civvies, and 5 of the other types, who are standard RPG classes, so I have those already. And I have a large undead army so I have most of that side, but certain types need "fleshing out", as I didn't like ghouls in WHFB so never bought any. Couple other missing types like that easily filled by Reaper.

So eventually the WGA city folk will find a home among my GW cardboard village terrain, however brief ...

I definitely need a few boxes of those. They will work wonders for my major weak spot: townsfolk. After all, when you have a town, it should be populated.

I NEED these townsfolk. I need to populate multiple cities/nations for Big Fantasy Epic.

I love civvies. Have all sorts from all sorts of companies.

I forgot they would have puddle bases and now I'm livid all over again.

Are 25mmx3mm square bases with recess coming at some point? I didn't see that choice in the Bases survey.

If WGA is going to persist with puddle bases, and the most popular rank and flank game is now 25mm square standard, it seems like that would be a good product to offer.

EM4 is the only other company offering them and they seem to be out of stock most of the time.

So how did they do the bases in those photos? I dont SEE the puddle bases.. but maybe those are special large bases with a spot for the attached bases, or they removed them for the photos.. which implies they don't like them much either..

 porkuslime wrote:
So how did they do the bases in those photos? I dont SEE the puddle bases.. but maybe those are special large bases with a spot for the attached bases, or they removed them for the photos.. which implies they don't like them much either..

Likely those were 3D printed samples they got before the real sprue was completed. The 3D printed ones may not have had the puddle bases.

 Eilif wrote:
Are 25mmx3mm square bases with recess coming at some point? I didn't see that choice in the Bases survey.

If WGA is going to persist with puddle bases, and the most popular rank and flank game is now 25mm square standard, it seems like that would be a good product to offer.

EM4 is the only other company offering them and they seem to be out of stock most of the time.

I've been buying 20/25/30 squares online from evemodel_ca on ebay for years, no idea who makes them or if they're in house... so they're there, and they're bloody cheap!

On WGA, does anyone have suggestions for making heavy weapon crew suitable for the Bulldogs and Raumjager to pose with heavy weapons? Printing their digital offerings isn't an option for me. I suppose it will have to be good old fashioned plastic converting and bitz sliicing.

Well you could try their new 3d printing partner Strange Plastic who will sell you physical versions of their STLs

https://www.strangeplastic.com/c/miniatures/miniature-ranges/wargames-atlantic-3d-printed-models/death-fields/

they've got a generally positive response from the folk who've used them in the WGA facebook group and have the Bulldog heavy weapons & crew

(they print in the UK and USA but have a flat rate international shipping of $20 (US)

Cheers for that but with dollar conversion the price is $100AUD just for 3 weapon teams! Sadly it seems no local printers are offering WGA specifically, plenty of other interesting stuff to be found on etsy etc.

 RustyNumber wrote:

 Eilif wrote:
Are 25mmx3mm square bases with recess coming at some point? I didn't see that choice in the Bases survey.

If WGA is going to persist with puddle bases, and the most popular rank and flank game is now 25mm square standard, it seems like that would be a good product to offer.

EM4 is the only other company offering them and they seem to be out of stock most of the time.

I've been buying 20/25/30 squares online from evemodel_ca on ebay for years, no idea who makes them or if they're in house... so they're there, and they're bloody cheap!
.

Are they lipped with a recess in the center?
25mm squares are common and I've got plenty. What I want is 25mmx25x3mm recessed in the middle like these:
https://em4miniatures.com/en-us/products/25mm-square-with-lip-x-20
Or similar to what WGA already makes in 20x20.

They're supremely useful for figures with cast-on/puddle bases. Just glue the fig in and fill the recess. The end result looks much more natural than the figure-on-a-mound that is so common.

Oh no they're not, sorry I missed that bit! I've personally given up on caring about the puddle bases, unless I'm particularly keen and take the time to clip/trim them. Otherwise I just try to throw on enough PVA and sand to disguise them

I caved in and pledged for The Damned before it ended, myself and a mate going halves. It's absurd value the amount of extra sprues being offered!

Oh and on the subject of 10mm, there's an interesting article in Wargames Illustrated where WGA discuss the merits of 10mm and historical hatred by some of anything like 15mm!

I wonder if modern city folk would sell?

I'm definitely down for a box of the fantasy ones

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
I wonder if modern city folk would sell?

I'm definitely down for a box of the fantasy ones

You probably remember the Wargames Factory Survivors both male and female. Don't know how well they did for Wargames Factory, but Warlord Games bought the rights and molds for their now defunct zombie game. Got a box of the male survivors myself, and a sprue each of female survivors and female zombies while Wargames Factory still owned the molds.

Not exactly what you want, as both sets were armed to the teeth with firearms (wanted more fire axes and crowbars myself), but closest thing that made it to market.

 Ancestral Hamster wrote:

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
I wonder if modern city folk would sell?

I'm definitely down for a box of the fantasy ones

You probably remember the Wargames Factory Survivors both male and female. Don't know how well they did for Wargames Factory, but Warlord Games bought the rights and molds for their now defunct zombie game. Got a box of the male survivors myself, and a sprue each of female survivors and female zombies while Wargames Factory still owned the molds.

Not exactly what you want, as both sets were armed to the teeth with firearms (wanted more fire axes and crowbars myself), but closest thing that made it to market.

I actually bought a box of the female survivors, and thought the models were pretty cool for the cost, if not terribly useful for most games (despite the number of spare weapons/alternative arms in the box, some figures would only be able to take one option).

I had the males and never painted or even built them, WGF tried for action poses they really weren't able to pull off.

My dream is civilians who can wither be panicking and running or rioting.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
I had the males and never painted or even built them, WGF tried for action poses they really weren't able to pull off.

My dream is civilians who can wither be panicking and running or rioting.

I have digital sets of modern panicking/rioting civilians from both Anvil and Wargames Atlantic, but I don't think I've ever seen a physical set for retail.

Looks to be a new WGA collaboration coming to KS soon



some plastic gladiators could be cool

Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bloodonthesands/arena

And they have a webpage, but not much info on it: https://www.bloodonthesands.com/

Blood on the Sands is a historically inspired skirmish game that immerses players in thrilling one-on-one gladiatorial combats. Players build and manage a stable of gladiators at their school, or ludus, battling for survival in the provincial arenas of ancient Rome. Blood on the Sands recreates the dynamic, back-and-forth 'dance' of the gladiatorial duel, reflecting the balanced intricacies that the Romans infused into their deadly bloodsport. The mechanics produce thrilling, narrative combats that move across the arena, demanding tactics, skill, and a degree of luck from the players. Between games, players manage their stable across the course of a campaign. Each gladiator strives to be crowned Champion and lead their ludus to victory—but most will fall, forgotten, like Blood on the Sands!

I have some of the 3D printed Gladiators from Wargames Atlantic and they Speedpainted up great!

I don't really need more Gladiators, but I always WANT more gladiators.

The rules themselves are a bit too focused on one-on-one duels for me, and ignores all the other ways Gladiators fought in the Arena. However, the core system is pretty solid and popular with the historical wargaming set.

I can use some multipart gladiators so this is now on my radar. I wonder though as the company they did the roman gang set for, there was talk about doing gladiators for them... this is a different company. So now I wonder if there will be 2 sets of gladiators through WA or how that other company will feel about this. Also hoping since this is a kickstarter that there may be a female gladiator set if funding supports it.

On one level, I am impatient for all the WGA kits that we are waiting for, on another I love that WGA is doing exactly what I've wanted for years, ie be an American company doing the plastic production for other game companies.

 Smokestack wrote:
I can use some multipart gladiators so this is now on my radar. I wonder though as the company they did the roman gang set for, there was talk about doing gladiators for them... this is a different company. So now I wonder if there will be 2 sets of gladiators through WA or how that other company will feel about this. Also hoping since this is a kickstarter that there may be a female gladiator set if funding supports it.

Wargames Atlantic Digital does have female gladiators. However, I doubt they will get a wide release in plastic.

 Easy E wrote:

 Smokestack wrote:
I can use some multipart gladiators so this is now on my radar. I wonder though as the company they did the roman gang set for, there was talk about doing gladiators for them... this is a different company. So now I wonder if there will be 2 sets of gladiators through WA or how that other company will feel about this. Also hoping since this is a kickstarter that there may be a female gladiator set if funding supports it.

Wargames Atlantic Digital does have female gladiators. However, I doubt they will get a wide release in plastic.

Yeah but this launches a week after my birthday. So, if I save my birthday wish, then maybe?

The great thing about Gladiator models, it they can be used in a variety of game systems from 1-on-1, to skirmish, to big battles.