Wargames Atlantic Prepare Persian People In Plastic
June 17, 2019 by brennon
Wargames Atlantic have been preparing a new plastic kit for you Historical lot to get stuck into. Here is a look at some of the options that will be part of their Persian release.
This will be their first historical release (although Dark Age Irish will be a close second) which looks to give you the core of a good Persian fighting force on the tabletop. If you're getting stuck into games like Mortal Gods or maybe SPQR from Warlord Games this would be a good option.
There is no hard and fast release date for them yet but they will be arriving sometime in 2019. As you can see there is a plethora of different weapon and head options here giving you the chance to make blocks of infantry with hand weapons and bows.
I like that they've also worked a dead Persian into the mix here too. They make for great battlefield objectives!
What do you think of the kit from this early preview?
"I like that they've also worked a dead Persian into the mix here too..."
love them since I saw the first concept sketches, really nice that someone is finally working on different forces from the norm, if I see one more greek, celt or roman plastic set I’m likely to vomit blood. Carving out a sensible niche instead of retreading the same old ground clever move.
If they’re the quality of the initial sprues we’ve seen then these should be excellent indeed.
Indeed…. The amount of plastics that are available for Romans, Greeks and Celts by all the companies in 28mm beggars belief. Yet no-one has done plastics for any “horde” armies (where you do need the cheap option for buying loads of figures). Looking at the renders for the parts, I DO think they would have been better doing all the bodies as unarmoured (ie no linen cuirass). Then that would give you more options for the bodies to use as Archers, Peltasts and even the “line” spears (the wicker shields would still be used). Then perhaps if it sold well… Read more »
Actually the cuirass sells it for me as do the head options and fatality since I already have a ton WGF unarmored Plastic Persian peasants to play with (you can still get the two figure sprue on ebay) and little in the way of elite options for armor except kit-bashing with dark age warrior minis.
Probably, however if they do the sprue contents as above then 50% of your foot is going to be wearing Sparabara equipment (when it was at the most 30%). So if someone’s starting a new Persian Army using these figures then your going to have an overabundance of them. But not sure if those bodies are for “officers” or not (as it’s going to be silly to have a standard with every six figures), but that’s the difficulty with doing a single sprue (you try to cover all the bases). It may be they are planning on doing a command… Read more »
I don’t think the casualty will be on the final sprue and it might only be 5 bodies from what I have read. But if they are the same sized box and sprue as the Skeletons it would mean 40 plastic fighty men.
Skeletons are very, very good especially for a new company and first kit!
I really like these. I’m very tempted to pick them up for Mortal Gods, especially if there’s a decent amount in the box.
Looks a good range of weapons on the sprue.
I don’t mind the poses but then I’m quite old school and my romans and Greeks have a single pose per unit mostly.
From a couple of feet away on the table you don’t really notice the similar poses anyway, plus it gives it a more regimented feel. The other advantage I find, quicker to build and paint – you know were the mould lines are, where to highlight etc and you get through them faster (or that is what I found especially with Mantic’s Dwarfs).
Not that excited about these, but am for the Irish especially if look ok with Footsore’s range.
yeah, I don’t need the irish, but I’ll be getting them. One box looks like 4 points for saga, 3 warriors and 1 hounds. I think I’ll have to start looking for what larger scale system I want to use as it will push me over 40 points for my Irish