FireForge Games Ride Out With A Massive Mongol Horde This May
April 23, 2015 by brennon
FireForge Games (the website is down at present) have a massive haul of Mongol Horsemen coming to Salute this weekend and for general release in May this year. See what you think of them with a variety of different weapons...
The cavalry unfortunately won't be in plastic but instead a resin material that Fireforge call Firecast. There has been a bit of grumbling about this but when it comes down to it they've explained that not everything can come out in plastic.
There is a great array of different sculpts from FireForge Games here and I like that even when the riders have the same weapons they've changed things up with the positions so that it doesn't look too uniform when on the battlefield. There's nothing worse than a whole unit that looks the same!
Will you be picking up some Heavy Cavalry for your Mongolian horde?
"I like that even when the riders have the same weapons they've changed things up with the positions so that it doesn't look too uniform when on the battlefield..."
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Yes, please! About seven boxes worth! Just one criticism, and this also applies to their mounted crusaders: the spears are awfully big, and proportionally much too thick. It does, of course, make them more robust, but I’m almost inclined to lop them off, and replace them with metal ones. I’ve got two boxes of the crusaders built right now, and what to do with the spears is the only thing preventing me from painting them… well, and time of course.
Err, no. Looking lovely but after the GW Failcast experience, I am sticking to hard plastic.
I didn’t see that part. I’m ambivalent about resin. I got an atrocious piece from Forge World, and haven’t ordered from them since, but got some great figures from Mom Miniaturas, and subsequently ordered many more.
My conclusion: the company, rather than the material, may be the issue in many cases. And I don’t know enough about resin to say whether they all use the same recipe.
You shouldn’t use Finecast as an example of what most resin is like..
I’ve realized that now, and have ordered a bunch of things from Spain, where they seem to have figured it all out. I’m not entirely worried about Fire Forge, but may just pick up one box to be sure. Mom raised fat kids… not stupid kids.
Resin is a superior medium for miniatures. You’ll get better models with greater detail than plastic can achieve – all things being equal, and IF done right. Finecast was a GW only mistake and at any rate plenty of Fine cast models were flawless. It’s the company and how the do their resin that counts. If the company is bad at handling resin or uses cheap resin, then the models will suffer. From a quick look at the picks its unlikely you will get a quality looking (intricate) armour with plastic as you can with resin. That and demand for… Read more »
Those are really good.
These have been on my salute shopping list since I started it. They look great although the spears will need changing to wire ones and I will probably swap the standard for one out of the plastic set.
If the horses are one piece, I can see them being a very good product, quick to prep and get painted.
They’re three pieces in the Templar and Teutonic sets.