Winner! Conquistador Cavalry Up For Pre-Order!
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Now up for pre-production ordering! Conquistador Cavalry here: https://wargamesatlantic.com/products/conquistador-cavalry
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@Eduard Garfella
I just told you that they are likely going to have to cut at least half of those lances as is, possibly cut three fourths them and they still won't have enough space for pistols!
First we all saw how jam packed the Grognard cavalry sprue was without the horse bodies on the sprue. They only had one pistol and a sheathed rifle on the sprue which pretty clearly had gone through a lot of back room haggling to even get in. Given what we are seeing here in this preview, the grog set is the model we need to look at more or less for this set minus the guns they just aren’t worth adding compared to say sheathed swords.
Just from what I am seeing here even if the sprue ultimately just has 3 lances, 3 sword arms, etc. on the frame for 3 bodies that will still take up a lot space. Particularly since it seems they are also doing the horse armor they are showing off here for at least 3 different horses (same as the grog sprue, this is a heavy cavalry set). What this means is at best it’s either one of your pistols that again didn't exist at that time and place or something else that the conquistadors did in fact have that would actually be more useful for general gaming and modeling (like feathers for the helmets, shields, sheathed swords or perhaps even the attack dog cause folks in the main US and UK markets play Frostgrave more than Mordhiem or WFB).
Likewise we don't know if this is whole frame or a half sprue, but single frame sets make the most money back for manufacturers, so they may even add the horse bodies to the frame making the sprue space constraints even tighter.
And just to clarify something, I would love to have more pistols in plastic too, I just think this remarkably dumb place to have them and you guys are all being incredibly dense about this.
The real renaissance set for pistols would be a Knights of Malta set for sea battles, which would be a way better source of wheel lock pistols than any conquistador set (and Cavalry sets in general if you ask me). If you really want wheel lock pistols in plastic that bad why the heck are you all not vox populiing these awesome sauce pirate knight dudes instead of arguing for guns in cavalry set where there should be none?:
You know, I am going to do God’s work and set that up myself right now so this nonsense ends.
Also as much as I want pistols in plastic pistols, I would say the "not everyone has a 3D printer at home" isn't actually a good argument anymore in our hobby's circles since a lot of public libraries and clubs have 3D printers they are more than happy to let you borrow or rent out as well as folks who do custom 3D printing, so you don't even need to mess with STL yourself beyond downloading onto USB drive in some cases. And I say this as someone with STL files I want to print out but no printer at home and looked into it (the only reason I have held off on printing that stuff at our local library is because my sister is vacillating about getting a 3D printer to build some prop armor, which I might add is now more like a $100 investment since some second hand shops are now carrying used 3D printers).
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These are updated renders of the more final parts - part #s are not finalized or the mix of parts yet. And others may be added.
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