My experience assembling a Warlord Games Soviet army put me off plastics for a time. This was quite the opposite of that experience. With 4 parts per model, I got them glued up in 2 hours. I build them generic enough that I can run them in other Dark Age warbands and Frostgrave too. I moved these from sprue to a game in less than a week. Thanks to Conquest, I've renounced my silly "no plastics" pledge.
I like how Conquest put loads of extras on the sprue and I've now got lots of spares for headswaps. Detail are well molded and the figures painted up nicely, especially the faces. For variety, you can make left-handed archers and command figures too. They're well worth a look if you want to create your own Storm of Arrows! Here's a quick summary for Smartphone readers...
Pros:
28 figures.
Lots of options to customize.
Price is right at $1 a figure.
Lots of extra heads and bits.
Work well for Frostgrave and other fantasy games.
Cons:
Some assembly but its simple.
I couldn't find a US distributor but I did find a UK eBay seller with affordable international shipping. You can order them straight from Conquest Games too.
This is going on the must buy soon list. I like being able to kit-bash stuff. I have some medievel minis from Deus Vult that I have added some helmetless heads from Gripping Beats dark age warriors. Gives the troops a bit of variety and makes it more interesting to paint.
ReplyDeleteThanks for taking the plunge back to plastics. Monty! Hope things are going well on your end. :)
David
Thanks David! Great call on the kit bashing.
ReplyDeleteAll is well here. Your blog tells me you're painting and playing lots!