It's Not All Dungeons and Battlefields! Two New Sets for Classic Fantasy!

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Chris - February 9, 2025

Both of the kits look great, the villagers look super varied. To be honest it makes me want to see a sci-fi version of the villagers. Some good quality plastic hivers could make an excellent addition to necromunda and similar games.

Justin - February 7, 2025

@Joe Mansfield
There’s a reason most kits don’t include both men and women. It’s because differing body proportions means you have to spread out parts between male and female and you end up with a kit that’s overall worse designed because it’s trying to do too much at once, especially at such a small scale. Looking at the sprues, this is frankly something the villagers kit suffers from, but the Guards doesn’t because it’s more difficult to tell a man and woman apart when they’re under 50 lbs of armor and weapons, especially at 28mm scale. This is also why almost no one even noticed that the revamped Cadian Guardsmen line from Games Workshop has female heads in nearly every new kit.

When your options are one mediocre kit that represents both, or two very good kits that represent each, the choice is obvious. But the demand for the second kit must also exist otherwise the investment isn’t worth it.

Aidan - February 6, 2025

These are awesome. Cannot wait to get it for my skirmish games!

Jordan - February 6, 2025

These kits look fantastic! The guards are characterful and the villagers will be great fun mix & match parts on to make different professions.

Has working on this kit affected your approach to the Reptilian Overlords mercenaries at all? I notice that a few of the items from their old mercenary kit which didn’t make it into the 2.0 version (lanterns, torches, scrolls, sack slung over the shoulder) appear in these kits instead.

Glorious Grunt - February 5, 2025

100% Awesome releases, Villagers are great for rescue/city defense scenarios and those guards would make perfect Captains/characters for a bunch of other games, lots of personality but a bunch of options. Great stuff!

William Redford - February 5, 2025

@Joe Mansfield. I agree that the Citizens of Rome set SHOULD have had females. But, there are 2 things with that. The first is that was a set that another company paid them to make. It was part of a kickstarter and the funds to create the set was crowd-sourced. And the Second (which is related to the first) is that a female citizen set was part of that kickstarter but didnt reach funding. :) Now they could have combined the set and add females to the sprue, but since they only reached the males based on crowd-funding, those that backed may not have appreciated the females… Alot of historical collectors dont… I wanted the females so cancelled my pledge.

Ernest - February 4, 2025

Echoing Maximilian’s comment, how compatible are these parts with the Age of Chivalry sets?
From the pictures provided they look a lot more “squat” than most wargames atlantic humans, but I’m happy to be proven wrong. Would definitely love more hi-res photos of the miniatures and the box art/back, as well as comparison with other wargames atlantic properties!

Looking forward to these sets!

Paul - February 4, 2025

Both these two sets will be amazing, with so many kitbashing otions and using parts with the new Medieval Peasants and Sergaents. Really waiting nmow for the Mounted medieval knights. Well done WA.

Joe Mansfield - February 4, 2025

Wasn’t aware of the female figures in the Grognard Command Box. I purchased a couple of the Female Cannonfodder along with the original version precisely because these figures are so useful in a SF setting. The power armor gals from the Iron Core range are excellent as well. Clearly your digital sculptors aren’t afraid to sculpt reasonable female miniatures. I agree WGA DIGITAL offers a wide variety.

But this is exactly what makes the apparent disconnect at the injection molding end of your business all the more disconcerting. Somehow WGA managed to release a plastic set titled Citizens of Rome entirely free of female figures. Allegedly in support of a game abundant with female characters? Ancient Rome didn’t reproduce through cloning. I’m calling this out because—to my surprise frankly—it appears to have gone unnoticed.

This is no universal condemnation; I own lots of your products. I shall continue to buy the ones I like. I’m heartened to see both male and female figures in this set here. Exactly what I need to populate a fantasy city. Looking forward to this Friday.

Adrian - February 3, 2025

I haven’t delved into games like DnD but I know folks who have and these would be a fun project to give em some NPCs