Wargames Atlantic New Releases and News 2024

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**Perfect Organism**

Of course, if it's a very close take on Count Orlok's look, then they will be in long coats, not robes. So alternative builds might be more along the lines of the headless horseman, Jack the ripper, scarecrow, etc. rather than cultists and wizards.

**ArminTamzarian**

Oh yeah coats would be perfect actually. Hoping for evil clawed hands. Multiple heads. At least vampires and pumpkins. That would be perfect.

**Perfect Organism**

Coats would also allow for some dual-use monster-hunter vs. monster builds. Vampire slayers, witch-hunters, and the like often seem to wear late 19th century style greatcoats even in 'early modern' settings like Warhammer's old world. Gothic horror detectives are, of course, eminently suited to that style as well.
All you would really need is WA's usual wide range of heads and a mix of 'monstrous' arms (claws and 'evil' weapons like straight razors, scalpels, and daggers) and 'heroic' ones (holding bibles, crucifixes, stakes, revolvers, garlic, and the like).

I feel like I'm setting myself up for disappointment by wish-listing all this...

**Gallahad**

Hopefully WGA isn't kicking themselves hearing all these great ideas from the community at this point!

Long double coats and a variety of heads (vampires, witch hunters, civilians, pumpkins, etc.) and arms with claws, pistols, swords, etc. seems like a great idea. For my purposes I'd hope they would be more on 1500s style of clothing than the Victorian, but seems there would be something there for everyone

**Kid_Kyoto**

For what it's worth Star Grave has sci fi long coats in their Scavager kits

**ArminTamzarian**

Yeah now that I finally got to check out the original Facebook post. I’d have to see it I suppose but I hope we get separate vampire and hunter kits. I feel like combining them would lead to too many compromises they both would be lesser.

**Smokestack**

Smokestack wrote:
The email (for the Conquistador cavalry) said they plan on an October Delivery, and then the next Vox Populi vote will start.

So these should be shipping soon if they syill plan on an October Delivery. Cant wait to get mine.

**Dysartes**

Gallahad wrote:
Hopefully WGA isn't kicking themselves hearing all these great ideas from the community at this point!

...if they're smart, they use this sort of reaction to brainstorm ideas for next year.

**Gir Spirit Bane**

Im starting to be concerned the Damned wont even ship to me until after christmas!

**GreenScorpion**

Gir Spirit Bane wrote:
Im starting to be concerned the Damned wont even ship to me until after christmas!

My original estimates for the Damned based on previous releases from Wargames Atlantic was some time in early 2025 for the gamefound delivery and something like mid 2025 for the retail release, not really sure why they decided to say May 2024 was their estimate and then just keep delaying things as the kits obviously take time to finalize.
Given we are at the end of October and there are still some kits to be finalized in terms of layout or in terms of tooling, I seriously doubt they will be able to ship the minis to people before the end of the year.

**Kid_Kyoto**

Don't forget nothing happens in February due to Chinese New Year

**GreenScorpion**

Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Don't forget nothing happens in February due to Chinese New Year

Didn't that stop being an issue for production once they moved the factory to the US?

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

Since everything but the boxes are done in house, and they've got distribution in place i'm hopeful things will come together fairly quickly once all is finalised (and the final version of the pledge manager is released so we can all re-pick our stuff to account for the changes in sprues/content)

and Chinese New Year might be a great time to ship as there will be loads of empty space in the worlds transport networks with a month of minimal Chinese input

(but i'm still hoping for before Xmas)

**Kid_Kyoto**

GreenScorpion wrote:
Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Don't forget nothing happens in February due to Chinese New Year

Didn't that stop being an issue for production once they moved the factory to the US?

Did they? Never mind then!

**Smokestack**

Valkir Heavy Troopers

This hard plastic box set includes enough parts to build 12 heavily armed Valkir Heavy Troopers with options to build the legs in multiple ways by adding or removing the hanging cloth tabards, pouches, side tassets, and other accessories. Three helmet types are included: the trooper, commander, and the more heavily armored Sturmhelm. Weapon options are many and include: heavy assault rifles, heavy anti-materiel rifles, grenade launcher, flame thrower, pistol, and power sword.

**Smokestack**

https://gamefound.com/en/projects/mwg--wargames-atlantic/the-damned/updates/64

Update #64
10/25/2024 10:19 AM
We're so close! I can taste it.
Update #64
We're very nearly at the end of this journey.
Good day all! I hope this update finds you all well.

As mentioned in the title above, we are very close to having everything tooled and in a place to begin production runs. I have some assembled models as well as a layout to show you.

Below is the final layout of the female infantry.

And, I've managed to get some test shots to show you some of the assembled miniatures. Check out the below!

We also need to say a big thank you to the ever vigilant and supportive Farglator for catching a mistake on the Artillery sprue. The connector on the two damaged gun shields is missing. This has gone back to tooling and will be fixed within the next couple of weeks.

Finally, I am hoping to have the last two infantry layouts in the next couple of weeks now. That's the Beastmen and the Hounds and Handlers. As soon as I have those I will do a big update showing every sprue layout and what's included in each set (number of each sprue). I will then give the date that the pledge manager will close.

Once the pledge manager has been closed, we will be able to plan and begin production and fulfilment. I will put together an update detailing that plan for you as soon as it is ready (I estimate a week from closing the pledge manager).

Thank you again for being awesome and for supporting us in this project!

I hope you all have a fantastic weekend.

Best wishes

Charlie

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

Valkir are looking good,

and the Damned are getting so close i can taste them (chicken... everything tastes like chicken with a strong hint of cordite)

**Smokestack**

I like the Valkyr... are they ogre sized? Or closer to marine size? 12 seems a bit light otherwise.

Automatically Appended Next Post:
When asked in the comments about whether the artillery and heavy weapons sprues will contain crew:

Charlie-WargamesAtlantic
Yeah my bad, I tried to repeat everything I have said around completion and fulfilment etc and missed that point. I will clarify that during the big update prior to the pledge manager closing.

I wouldn't say it is being ducked. We're just working out whether it is viable to add the additional sprue to each of the free artillery and heavy weapons sprues.

**GreenScorpion**

The artillery looks great, but overall I think I will likely get a couple of the Damned kits once they hit retail later down the road as I want to see the full sprues and likely a couple of reviews on most kits first.

If Wargames Atlantic sees this as a sign that full armies are a good thing to do, it might push them to do all of the other kits for Death Fields that have been pushed down on the queue for a long time.

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

Smokestack wrote:
I like the Valkyr... are they ogre sized? Or closer to marine size? 12 seems a bit light otherwise.

Valkir were effectively space marines to the Eisenkerns imperial guard in the previous Dreamforged version

(the eisenkern shown here might even be a preplastic resin version, marine is pre-primeris size)

my brain had incorrectly registered the 12 as 18... it does indeed seem quite small, but probably a consequence of only being able to get 3 minis per sprue due to the separate legs , hopefully it will mean a slightly lower price too

**Smokestack**

OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:

my brain had incorrectly registered the 12 as 18... it does indeed seem quite small, but probably a consequence of only being able to get 3 minis per sprue due to the separate legs , hopefully it will mean a slightly lower price too

Nah, its the higher $39.95 price on the preorder unfortunately. I may still get a box to "damnify".

**GreenScorpion**

Given that the other Iron Core kits were 20 to a box and these guys are bulkier I think 12 is mostly in line.
Thinking about sprue numbers I think the other 2 kits are 4 sprues with 5 minis and this one should be 4 sprues with 3 minis so likely an extra sprue to make them cheaper individually was not in the plans at all.
If they are as big/bulky as the old ones it will still be far cheaper than current alternatives on the market.

**mithril2098**

no kidding.. $39.95 for 12 is $4.33 per figure..

Horus Heresy marines are $60 for 20, or about $3 each..but once you add in the special weapons options that the Valkyr come with, the 30K marines just about double in price, if not triple, depending on how you break the costs down from needing multiple upgrade sets. so there it will depend on what you intend to use the valkyr to portray.

and the 40K primaris marines are running $62.50 for 10 dudes, and they don't come with all the options the valkyr do either. (nor do they have upgrade sets)

they're closer to the First Born tactical squad box.. but there you are paying $60 for 10 ($6 each) guys, so it's still more expensive.

**BobtheInquisitor**

Aren’t they more like $3.33 per figure?

I was really hoping they’d stick with $35 for the box to remind everyone of the days when space marines were $35 for 10, back when Dawn of War exploded their popularity.

If space marines are really $60 for 20, this release isn’t quite the Space Marine killer I was hoping it would be.

**ProfSrlojohn**

BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Aren’t they more like $3.33 per figure?

I was really hoping they’d stick with $35 for the box to remind everyone of the days when space marines were $35 for 10, back when Dawn of War exploded their popularity.

If space marines are really $60 for 20, this release isn’t quite the Space Marine killer I was hoping it would be.

HH marines are 84$ for the Mk6/Mk4s, and 79$ for mk3.

**BobtheInquisitor**

For how many?

**Geifer**

All three are boxes of twenty.

**Shrapnelsmile**

I'm eager to the new Forbidden Psalms Last war rule book from Wargames Atlantic, but I don't really need the box set. I have a lot of WW I troops. Is it sold separately anywhere, the newest version? Online search is yielding nothing.

**lord_blackfang**

Shrapnelsmile wrote:
I'm eager to the new Forbidden Psalms Last war rule book from Wargames Atlantic, but I don't really need the box set. I have a lot of WW I troops. Is it sold separately anywhere, the newest version? Online search is yielding nothing.

I haven't seen anything to indicate the Atlantic box would have a different version of the rulebook to what is available now.
https://spacepenguin.ink/collections/forbidden-psalm/products/the-last-war

**Shrapnelsmile**

lord_blackfang wrote:
Shrapnelsmile wrote:
I'm eager to the new Forbidden Psalms Last war rule book from Wargames Atlantic, but I don't really need the box set. I have a lot of WW I troops. Is it sold separately anywhere, the newest version? Online search is yielding nothing.

I haven't seen anything to indicate the Atlantic box would have a different version of the rulebook to what is available now.
https://spacepenguin.ink/collections/forbidden-psalm/products/the-last-war

oh that's good to know. I just assumed they would of re-worked it. Thanks Blackfang.