Aim & Fire With Warhammer Age Of Sigmar’s Freeguild Fusiliers
July 11, 2023 by brennon
Games Workshop have been previewing more of the Cities Of Sigmar miniatures that are coming out soon for Warhammer Age Of Sigmar. We've seen a lot of the rank and file that you can get from the Launch Box but there are also plenty of folks armed with firearms, ready to protect cities across the realms.
Freeguild Fusiliers // Warhammer Age Of Sigmar
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Hunkered down behind their hefty, hardwood pavises, these Fusiliers are prepared to bring down all manner of foes. Under the command of a Fusil-sergeant, these Fusiliers can bring down Ogors, Orruks and everything else in between whilst hopefully being able to hold the line.
Freeguild Fusiliers // Warhammer Age Of Sigmar
Their guns can tear through the flesh and armour of mortal foes but for those more magical in nature, that's where the blessed shot and sigil-wrought ammo comes in. Fusiliers are also able to deal with wraiths, demons and more that they might encounter in The Mortal Realms. Whilst most of these soldiers carry those regular guns, there are others with multi-barrel contraptions and even pistols.
Freeguild Fusiliers - Details // Warhammer Age Of Sigmar
I really like how grimdark and Oldworldy these miniatures are. There's something distinctly The Mortal Realms about them but with a lot of inspiration coming from the Old World at the same time too. There's even an errant little Mordheim-esque fish running around on the base of one of the miniatures which is a glorious little callback.
As well as the regular Fusiliers, you also need to make good use of your Blackpowder Squires. These fellows run up and down the line handing out shot and powder, allowing you to re-roll hits.
This gives folks another fun set of miniatures for the Cities Of Sigmar that really nail the personality of these new Mortal Realms citizens. Are these too much or are they just what folks needed?
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The more I see the Free Guild, the more I go off them.
Agreed – the blast from these guns would kill 100% of their users.
They look awful.
Looks very Warmachine. Khador to be precise imo.
Though I’d have said Cygnar if they’d had blue shields etc.
GW is really knocking it out of the park with the redesigned free cities. I know it’s a heresy, but I never liked the Empire pyjamas.
I am not a fan but concede that I am probably falling victim to my love of the Warhammer Old Word Empire aesthetic and not appreciating that these are something new. On the plus side (and in my opinion a huge plus) much preferable to elves on kangaroos.
With the return to the old world, I feel that perhaps GW is trying to increasingly differentiate between the races which will be in the two systems. Hence the divergence for Elves and Empire/Cities of Sigmar, whereas Lizardmen are more of a refinement as they are not appearing in the Old World return.
its easy to criticize however in the hope that some feedback reaches GW (likely to be ignored if it did) i would say that these are pointless even in a fantasy setting. Too heavy for credible mobility, too undergunned for impact and overly sculpted as a practical playing piece. transhuman shield bearing breachers i can buy into but not wielded by some half starved foot slogger or even a city guard.
They had me until this pointless uglyness!
Nice an different look to them.