I've thought of using them for something before, when I've seen You can also use the tile material as movement trays for steel-based figures: just laminate a piece of magnetic sheet to Shogun Miniatures have steel bases for Impetus: square (which has a long steel ruler as one side)to guild my cuts.
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Darn you Renko you know what you gone and made me do.. Interesting analysis with regards the various armies. I agree with the sabot bases idea and will look at doing that for Alexander and the Indians and give Impetus a try. These are very much my favourite Ancient armies. I'm still trying to find a rule set that makes Wars of the Roses a bit more fun than you rather accurately describe. Otherwise it looks like the Mongols could be a lot of fun with Impetus - I just love the speed and decisiveness of lots of light cavalry in pretty much any set of rules.
Following in from the last couple of pieces, having selected your army and decided on the rough numbers it's time to actually buy some figures. This can be fraught, so here again are a couple of pointers. In many ways we are living in a golden age because plastic 28mm historical figures are making some armies financially viable again. What is more, the availability of cheap plastic figures has imposed something of a cap on metal figure prices. This is good for the gamer in the short term but we may end up with less choice in the future.
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As a personal choice I prefer plastic over metal for a number of reasons. Firstly, the aforementioned price. Historical plastic figures tend to sell at roughly around half the price of metal ones. A second advantage is weight. Seems a bit of a strange thing to have to consider but humping around several hundred metal figures can be something of a chore. On the downside be prepared to stick more bits together in plastic rather than metal.
There are a couple of excellent sources too - Victrix, Perry, Gripping Beast and Warlord Games are probably the leaders in plastic, but you should also look to smaller outfits such as FireForge, Agema and Conquest.
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One word on Warlord. Their Hoplites are reboxed "Immortal Miniatures" ranges, which were probably the very first Ancient figures in plastic. They're ok, but not a patch on Victrix. The same can usually be said about the reboxed Wargames Factory Persians and Hoplites available from Warlord, although they are damned useful and very flexible figures. Victrix are currently in the lead here as they have just released their first Cavalry sets with more to follow, including Elephants in That's not to say you should ignore metal, but you do need to be careful if you are going down that route.
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Twenty years ago Essex miniatures ruled the roost, but today they are largely ignored due to their static poses and lack of variation. Old Glory in both the US and UK are however very much worth looking at the US website has many more pics than the UK and the quality ranges from "rough and ready" to "Foundryesque" but with the advantage of discount prices.
Warlord also produce a good selection of metal figures that vary in style and proportion, a result of their "hoovering up" of smaller ranges such as Immortal and Bronze Age.
So going back to the earlier post on Romans, where would I get them? There is a stand out range available in plastic from Warlord, with Victrix promising another later in the year. If that happens, jobs on the list get moved from one season's to the next. Once in awhile, though, getting the necessary jobs accomplished requires us to finally get ones done that have been shuffled from list to list for a few years. That was the case last Saturday when we needed to clean out a space in the barn to put the straw we planned to bale the next day.
After moving tack and other horse equipment, Brian's weight set, several bikes a variety of tools and an assortment of scrap iron from the barn so we could organize it, we decided that rather than put everything back, we would find the mish-mash of items new homes.
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However, before we could do that, we needed to clean out the machine shed so there was room for the new stuff. We re-focused our efforts on the machine shed and piled junk in the pick-up box to take to the local landfill, put the scrap metal pieces stored there in an empty garbage can and moved the horse equipment to a corner of the building where I hung up the bridles and stored the saddles.
Our next step was to move a bunch of tools from the barn to the old oil shed attached to it. Once I was in the oil shed, I couldn't help myself from cleaning that, too, so we threw some more junk in the pickup-up, organized tools and got out the shop vac to clean the sunflower hulls that mice and squirrels had left on the bench.
Then I picked up the nuts and bolts that were scattered on the floor and swept it.
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By this time a few hours had passed, so we took a lunch break, and afterwards, Brian took the load of junk to the local landfill while I finished cleaning the barn. I swept the floor, organized and vacuumed out cabinet drawers and threw some small pieces of junk in the dumpster, and when Brian returned, he loaded up the scrap iron from the barn and put it in the barrel in the machine shed. He also moved the weight bench and weights to our son's club house. The projects took a total of about half a day, which was quite a bit longer than I had anticipated when we initially started cleaning the barn, but I also got a lot more done than I had thought we would.
Not only did we make room for plenty of straw in the barn, I got to check three more items off of my summer to-do list.