Gripping Beast Working On New Dark Age Irish Plastic Kit
October 28, 2021 by brennon
Gripping Beast has announced that they are releasing a new plastic set of 28mm Dark Age Irish warriors for use in your Historical games. May I suggest SAGA as an example? They are aiming to release them in Mid-November.
Dark Age Irish // Gripping Beast
This new plastic set will come with twenty-five warriors armed with various weapons including spears, axes and short swords. You will also find additional plastic frames which offer up extra weapons like Dane Axes, extra heads and fringed/tasselled cloaks. Defence-wise, the warriors will be able to use bucklers and shields.
Here are some of the examples that Gripping Beast showed off over on social media...
Dark Age Irish Examples // Gripping Beast
It looks like a solid set that would work for those wanting to make Irish armies but also all manner of Dark Age forces. I like the addition of the cloaks for this set which are handy when looking to break up the silhouette of the force when it's all together.
Are you going to be snapping these up to use in your games of SAGA next month?
"It looks like a solid set that would work for those wanting to make Irish armies..."
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How many Gerry’s are there going to be?
Cloning in the age of Vikings? I knew there was something to the Ancient Astronaut Theory!
I like the minis a lot. More choice, better armies.
More Gerry’s, and in plastic too, fantastic stuff.
Perfect for games like SAGA… for example.
With the Gerry tribe being the scariest thing out their.
I’m surprised their new kit is going to be Dark Ages Irish given there is already a kit for these on the market from Wargames Atlantic. I’m all for competition but there aren’t so many plastic 28mm kits out there that we need to be doubling up already yet surely? Wouldn’t have been a big design tweak to make these Picts, Scots or Welsh which all deserve some plastic love too.
That was my initial reaction too.
Previous box sets of plastic GB mini’s seemed to have very large heads in comparison to their bodies, these look a lot better to me. I like them