Lady Ravenclaw Rides Into Battle From FireForge Games
October 23, 2019 by brennon
FireForge Games are riding into battle alongside the valiant Lady Ravenclaw this week as she got added to their webstore for Forgotten World and the Albion faction.
Lady Ravenclaw is another of the Grail Knights, riding out across the land looking for ancient treasures to deliver to her King (or Queen). I really like the look of the model both on foot and mounted on that mighty barded warhorse too. Comparing the two, I reckon that the mounted version has the edge though as she looks dominating, especially with that dark helmet.
Here we also have some Lloyd-views of the model where we can see the back of both the on foot and mounted versions of the model.
She seems like an ace addition to a Fantasy army which is ready to ride into battle under the glow of the grail. I like the idea of using Lady Ravenclaw, at least in her on foot format, as a bit of a dungeon delving hero, perhaps as a paladin maybe?
As it stands, this is an awesome looking new release for the game and I like that they've managed to make her appear female without having to resort to plenty of old fashioned techniques. Are you going to be picking her up to use in your knightly force?
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It’s a nice miniature and it would probably fit nicely in my Bretonnian army, but I don’t think it looks particularly feminine anywhere other than the head of the dismounted version. Swap that head for a helmed one and that model immediately stops being female
I think her ‘frame’ as it were hints that it’s a woman rider if you look at the back of the model. But, that’s just me maybe.
It’s hard to tell really whether it’s a bulky woman or a lithe man. It’s only the head that really gives a clue. The mounted version just looks like a knight.
“The mounted version just looks like a knight”
In essence, nothing wrong with that either. I can see the feminine element to the sculpt though.
Well, Lady Ravenclaw looks all male to me, the mini just has long hair (and let be honest that doesn’t magically make you female like it used to do), in fact it reminds me of that one vain Chaos lord model GW use to sell (my overall opinion). And I am not alone in this assessment, my art major brother thinks her hips are more like a man’s hips (a somewhat important detail) and the bridge of her nose is too masculine (his opinion).
However I think I know the reason why they are marketing her this way as far as the gender neutral armor goes. It is because certain people keep asking for realistic armor for their lady knights and these same people assume that it should look exactly like the male armor regardless of actual differences in body shape and comfort of the average female (https://www.livescience.com/21771-army-female-body-armor.html) or the fact that they could achieve the same effect with the helmeted knight models already out there with literally little to no conversion work given the scale (unless the minis have absurdly well defined Adam’s apples).
Frankly some female head-swaps for Perry’s offerings would probably satisfy these individuals, though a few character resins like this might be okay. Personally for fantasy miniature female knights I want pretty armored battle dresses that make the mini look like a princess who has decided to slay her own dragons (sort of like Saber’s outfit from the Fate/Stay anime franchise)instead of a bimbo or a pretty boy in armor. Sorry for making you read all that its just a pet peeve.
I know exactly why it’s been done, but this only further proves what I have always said. You can either have realistic looking female miniatures or you can have miniatures that look female on the table. You can’t have both.
Clearly you didn’t read the article I stuck in (its just one of many out there) to quote :
“Better-fitting armor for female soldiers could also improve armor-fitting for all soldiers down the road. The Army has begun investigating how to make armor plating that better fits the human body — a process that could lead to science fiction visions of futuristic body armor fitted to both men and women.”-Live Science staff
I think we all the know what the “science fiction visions of futuristic body armor fitted to both men and women.” they are referring to looks like,Mass Effect anyone?.
My point is that for a fantasy setting where women have traditional regular combat roles, we don’t know squat about what “realistic female armor” would look like since their smiths would probably notice that women are built differently then men. For all we know realistic female armor might actually have a booby plate given that there are no real surviving examples of female armor since girls tended to just steal dad’s armor when going out to battle, no big surprise given that female fighters tended to be so rare in history that their very existence is often up for debate even in places noted for higher volumes of lady warriors like Japan, its unlikely most armor smiths would even think of making armor for women. But heck, in a world where female warriors where just as common as their male counterparts, or even at a stable 20% of the fighting population, boob-plates might get made for similar reasons that the very real oversized armored codpiece where made.
Fabulous looking figures for game’s.