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Goat people & Contiental Army...didn't have that on my bingo card for 2025

Racerguy180 wrote:
Goat people & Contiental Army...didn't have that on my bingo card for 2025

Most people don’t know there were no goat people in the Americas until Europeans brought them over.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

Racerguy180 wrote:
Goat people & Contiental Army...didn't have that on my bingo card for 2025

Most people don’t know there were no goat people in the Americas until Europeans brought them over.

Damn Europeans and their Goat people!!! No wonder the Colonials rose up...

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

Racerguy180 wrote:
Goat people & Contiental Army...didn't have that on my bingo card for 2025

Most people don’t know there were no goat people in the Americas until Europeans brought them over.

Take your exault and get out of here!

(Actually don't get out of here, that was genuinely funny)

Goatman is no laughing matter.

I imagine a lot of other people had the same question I did when they saw this.

https://www.nps.gov/mima/patriotsofcolor.htm

And the answer is yes, there were Black Minutemen.

Learn something every day.

Aww minutemen would be a great base for some variant wild west guys if they didn't wear those pilgrim loafers

Okay, but IS there a game system where you can play as minutemen fighting beastmen in the forests of the new world, or is it one of those "you can make any number of generic rulesets work for that theme" sort of things?

I'm not sure I'd feel good about re-skinning actual human natives as beastmen, so an inherent fantasy element would be a must.

You could check out Witchfinder General - Days of Revelation, which are 17th Century Folklore Historical Wargame Rules. Set in England, no reason it couldn't be ported to the Americas.

That's the only one that comes to mind right off-hand. Maybe use Silver Bayonet (Naploeonic, but could probably be adapted).

I do have one concern with the new range. I notice that the dates are listed as 1775-2025. While I appreciate the implication that the "Age of Reason" definitely extends no further than the current year, I'm not sure it's accurate to say that it includes everything up to that point, either.

I think historians are still debating exactly which year we finally left Reason behind.

Hatemonger wrote:
I do have one concern with the new range. I notice that the dates are listed as 1775-2025. While I appreciate the implication that the "Age of Reason" definitely extends no further than the current year, I'm not sure it's accurate to say that it includes everything up to that point, either.

I think historians are still debating exactly which year we finally left Reason behind.

That's not the range dates.

That's the 250th anniversary of the battle of bunker hill.

also lexington and concord, earlier this year in April when we previewed these sets.

Oh no!

Not only did I have to teach about the Spaniards exploration and exploitation of the Americas, which was a perfect excuse to get students building Conquistadores and Aztecs and rolling dice for skirmish games, but now I have a perfect excuse to have them build Red Coats and Minutemen? What ever shall I do?

Going to need to look into some sort of grant process or money from the state to have them buy a bunch of models in bulk so we can have some proper war games.

I'm honestly going to be talking to my administrators about doing something at a bigger scale than just me ordering a box or two for each side.

WGA should set up some educator programs!

I think the 250 might be for 250 years of the US army.

Definitely confusing

Wargames Atlantic wrote:

Hatemonger wrote:
I do have one concern with the new range. I notice that the dates are listed as 1775-2025. While I appreciate the implication that the "Age of Reason" definitely extends no further than the current year, I'm not sure it's accurate to say that it includes everything up to that point, either.

I think historians are still debating exactly which year we finally left Reason behind.

That's not the range dates.

That's the 250th anniversary of the battle of bunker hill.

also lexington and concord, earlier this year in April when we previewed these sets.

I suppose that makes more sense, even if it does ruin my carefully-crafted jab about the decline of civilization.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:I think the 250 might be for 250 years of the US army.

Definitely confusing

Maybe they could have a parade to clarify. A Clarification Day Parade!

I'd love to know how those satyrs size up to the stuff from The Old World, and especially if there's going to be more!

I want to mix up my stuff (I loved in the Gotrex and Felix book, they were random animals and mutations, rather than all goats), and it would be interesting to see i these can be mixed with Gor or Ungor.

Plus, I hate the minotaurs, and having a WGA kit for minotaurs would be awesome!

I believe those were already released by RGD games, so you could look for size comparisons with their name. They also released Fauns, which were smaller goat men and centaurs.

Surprise release of Richard Sharpe, of Sean Bean and Sharpe's Rifles fame, before a release of a full game...

https://wargamesatlantic.com/products/richard-sharpe-1809?se_activity_id=140130910306&syclid=d1cpi2g2ir0c73drs850&utm_campaign=Happy+Birthday+to+Richard+Sharpe%21+Let%27s+Celebrate%21_140130910306&utm_medium=email&utm_source=shopify_email

I hope 54mm display dual kits don't become a regular thing with WGA. It makes a bit of sense in this very particular case since Sean Bean as Sharpe is so iconic, but having a few more of the show's named characters all released as a box set would have been so much more useful.

If Harper comes as a 28mm+54mm dual kit we riot

I'd hoped they would modify some of the Satyr bits to make them more useable. The handles on the hammers are all ridiculously thin, are prone to break and look silly to boot. Several of the clubs also narrow down to being very thin, and they didn't replace the odd turtle shell looking things. I still have no idea what those can be used for. Maybe shoulder armor for the three crossbody strap bodies??

At least several of the axes are nice. Heads are suitably weird giving them all a "painting from medieval period come to life" vibe.

I'm sooo down for doing a Sharpe diorama, in both scales.

https://wargamesatlantic.com/blogs/news/preview-25mm-deck-bases

 Wargames Atlantic wrote:
https://wargamesatlantic.com/blogs/news/preview-25mm-deck-bases

Those are... not great? Half of them look like cutouts from entirely different places with different floor paneling, when ideally a set of bases should look like differently offset cutouts from the same location. And the other half aren't even cutouts, they are perfectly centred on some design that exactly fits on a base... are they teleport pads?

For the future, I suggest your workflow for designing a base set is sculpting a 5x5" or so area of a coherent floor, then making cutouts of that.

Yeah, having the detail centered on the base is fine for a single display piece, but looks odd when it's repeated across a unit. This set has too many bases with centered detail, and too many details distinct to a single base, which throws off the uniformity.

A few examples of good base sets that look like every person is standing in the same room

https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-tech-alley-bases-pre-supported-406303

https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-tech-bases-standard-sizes-439434

https://wargamesatlantic.com/products/markets-barricades


The Markets & Barricades set first seen in the Barrons War box set is now available on its own

This makes me very happy. Also, the kit has way more little details and stuff than I thought. I only saw the photos of the barricade assemblies..

The market stalls will be useful for Guards of Traitor's Toll. And set dressing for the town scenario in Deth Wizards.

Question. How many market tables does one get? From the assembly guide, it looks like four.

 Ancestral Hamster wrote:
The market stalls will be useful for Guards of Traitor's Toll. And set dressing for the town scenario in Deth Wizards.

Question. How many market tables does one get? From the assembly guide, it looks like four.

Okay, the product description says it makes 8 barricades.

The two different sprues have 2 barricade bases each. So let's assume 2 of each sprue.
Going by the sprue photos, it looks like four tables is indeed correct.

 Rihgu wrote:
Okay, but IS there a game system where you can play as minutemen fighting beastmen in the forests of the new world, or is it one of those "you can make any number of generic rulesets work for that theme" sort of things?

I'm not sure I'd feel good about re-skinning actual human natives as beastmen, so an inherent fantasy element would be a must.

Silver Bayonet? it's set a few decades later (napoleonic wars) but given there wasn't much major change in weapons tech you could probably make the game work for the french and indian war and the revolutionary war. and it certainly would work for 1812. not sure if these figures would fit 100% into the rules, they don;t seem to have much on the way of melee options or poses. but from what i understand the rules for warband construction are fairly flexible so you could probably make it work with a little customization.

mithril2098 wrote:

 Rihgu wrote:
Okay, but IS there a game system where you can play as minutemen fighting beastmen in the forests of the new world, or is it one of those "you can make any number of generic rulesets work for that theme" sort of things?

I'm not sure I'd feel good about re-skinning actual human natives as beastmen, so an inherent fantasy element would be a must.

Silver Bayonet? it's set a few decades later (napoleonic wars) but given there wasn't much major change in weapons tech you could probably make the game work for the french and indian war and the revolutionary war. and it certainly would work for 1812. not sure if these figures would fit 100% into the rules, they don;t seem to have much on the way of melee options or poses. but from what i understand the rules for warband construction are fairly flexible so you could probably make it work with a little customization.

That was going to be my suggestion as well. Military technology really didn’t change very much between the revolutionary war, and the Napoleonic era that silver bayonet is set in. A few weapons/options are not quite seamless fits, but otherwise, the rules set should work with very little modification.

Valete,

JohnS