Reply To: Changes coming to Warlord's support for exisiting games

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“Putting questions of scale aside, I will say something that I do like about those Epic Naps – the infantry are actually formed shoulder to shoulder. I don’t think any other models ranges manage to replicate the tight mass of soldiers as effectively as these strips.”

Actually Old Glory in the UK (and in the US) sell 10mm “strips” of figures shoulder to shoulder (although these are in strips of 5 figures). I’ve got some, and they are quite nice. The Cavalry, Skirmishers etc are all individual figures. At £16 for 100 infantry figures (the Cavalry cost £15 for 30) they aren’t too costly (the Warlord Plastics cost £25 for 300 figures, the metals cost £45 for 300 (so the metals cost about the same))  …..

https://www.oldgloryuk.com/10mm-french/28/89/259/261

..if that link works 🙁

If ONLY Warlord had gone with 10 or 15mm I’d be buying LOADS (particularly the plastic infantry for ACW). For me one of the other “niggle” is that fact Warlord do battalions/regiments of 5 bases (or you can make 3 base battalions/regiments by buying extra command strips). That’s ok for ACW and British Naps (where one base nicely represents two companies), but for the other nations using four or six companies to a battalion?  Most of the rules I use have you base up your battalions in the proper number of companies for that nation (I know that’s not an issue for Black Powder as it’s more small/medium/large battalions and number of figures represented).