Warlord Games: Plastic Siberian Veterans

Warlord Games: First seen at Salute in London earlier this year, our Siberian Veterans have been eagerly awaited ever since. The armies of the Third Reich are about to have a bad day as they are now released!

Epitomising what Hitler referred to as the ‘Asiatic Hordes’, the Siberians were battle-hardened from their service in the conflict against Japan in the east. Coming as a rude shock to the forces of the Third Reich, the veteran Siberian troops fell upon the over-extended German forces. They were used in mass assaults hurling themselves into the German lines fully prepared to fight in close quarters, wielding wicked knives and using their entrenching tools to terrible effect.

Raised from the forces in the far east of the Soviet Union they were used to deprivation and hardship, and their stamina in the the deep, hostile snows in their homeland was a constant source of amazement to their foe. This boxed set contains a mixed force of Siberian troops led by a commissar exhorting his troops with the aid of a loudhailer, all eager to fight the German invaders for Stalin and holy Mother Russia!

Siberian Veterans contains:

• Enough plastic and metal components to make 34 battle-hardened Soviet Union infantry miniatures. Includes a host of options to allow for different weapon configurations and command models.
• Weapons included: Maxim machine gun, Mosin-Nagant rifle (scoped, with bayonet and without), PTRD Anti-tank rifle, submachine guns (PPS-43 , PPSh-41 and PPD-40), Mosin-Nagant carbine, DT-28 light machine gun, Tokarev semi-automatic rifle (and bayonet version), pistols and rifle grenade launcher. Also includes captured Panzerfaust and MP40 SMG!
• Round plastic bases (25mm diameter).
• Background leaflet.

Mantic Games: Pictures of the new Kings of War Miniatures

Mantic Games has just published several pictures of new Kings of War miniatures:

Grekwood Miniatures: Line of 28mm Modern vehicles

Grekwood Miniatures: Today, I have uploaded four resin vehicles to our website. They are 28mm in "scale," and are solid resin. Some parts may be metal. Here's some photos:

First of all, here's all four together for a size comparison against each other:

Pinzgauer

CVRT Scimitar

Snatch Land Rover

WMIK Land Rover

Battlefront Miniatures: M42A1 Duster

Battlefront Miniatures: The experience of the Korean War led U.S. Army officials to begin the phasing out of the M24 Chaffee in favor of designs based around the more modern M41 Walker Bulldog. Included in the M24 family of vehicles was the M19 GMC.

Developed towards the end of the Second World War, the M19 was armed with two of the highly effective 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns, mounted in an open-topped turret capable of traversing 360°. Since the 40mm Bofors was still considered an effective anti-aircraft weapon, the turret of the M19 was simply mated with chassis of the M41 to create the M42 - or Duster, as it became known as by troops serving in Vietnam.

The first M42s begun arriving in Vietnam during 1966, and as it become clear that the threat of North Vietnamese air power would never materialize, the M42 was quickly put to work in a ground-support role. With each gun capable of firing 120 rounds per minute, the 40mm rounds of the M2A1's Bofors proved devastating against both unarmored ground targets and massed infantry attacks.

Osprey Publishing: Of Gods and Mortals

Osprey Publishing: Of Gods and Mortals is a set of rules to conduct tabletop battles between small forces of chosen warriors led by mythological beasts, heroes, and the gods themselves! Thor, Loki, Odin, Ares, Zeus, the Dagda, Poseidon,Horus, Hermes, Cernunnos, Crom Cruach and Seth clash on the battlefield, and the fate of the universe is at stake. 

Four factions are provided – Greeks, Egyptians, Celts and Norse. In addition, a point system lets you design any other figure from mythology. The rules are fast and convenient. A game can be completed in under an hour, playing on a small table (a 3' x 3' area is enough) with about 16 to 20 figures per player, in any scale. 

The games is scalable, so the players can set up larger games if they want. Each player controls a god, one to five legends, and a couple of units of mortals. Gods and mortals are bound by a mutual relationship: the gods need the energy deriving from the mortals' faith, and the mortals need the protection of the gods to stand fast when facing the supernatural and impossible odds. Between the gods and the mortals stand the legends: demigods and heroes – characters like Herakles, Theseus, Cú Chullain – or spawn of darkness and chaos like the Hydra, the Kraken, Medusa, ancient mummies revived by necromancy, or guardians of Hades like the three-headed hound Cerberus. 

Models are singly-based, allowing to remove casualties as they occur. Gods and legends move as single figures. Mortals are arranged as close-order or open-order units, and placed on trays to speed up movement (rectangles are used for close-order troops; flocked CDs are used for open-order units). A complete, self-contained, uncomplicated game which can be expanded at will by the participants, Of Gods and Mortals uses the award-winning Song of Blades rules engine, making sure that all players stay involved at all times, plenty of tactical choices are made, and the turns flow in an unpredictable manner.

Slug Industries: RV Suited For Zombie Games

Not sure if I have shared this great model before so here's the RV made by Slug Industries that retails for £20 including some nice decals.

Osprey Publishing: Companion book for In Her Majesty's Name

Just found this companion book for In Her Majesty's Name

Minairons Miniatures: IGC Sadurní d'Anoia Assault Tank

Minairons Miniatures: Now that the thing is at an advanced enough state, let me acknowledge you what will be our next 1:72nd scale SCW model: this is to be no other than the Catalan made IGC Sadurní d'Anoia assault tank, carrier and tractor, a model never before released in any material --either metal, resin or plastic--, except for a hobby shop in El Vendrell town that dared, a lot of years ago, to make it as a vacuform model.

Here below you can see what does its assault tank version look like:

In spite of some advanced features, as well as it high mechanic reliability, the assault tank version was never approved for production, due to its designers not having foreseen a rotating turret capable of carrying a heavier weaponry than the standard-designed front machine gun. However, both its carrier and artillery tractor versions were produced in some numbers and delivered to the Aragon Front, where the Republican lack of armour was dramatic. A number of them were still active at the start of the Ebro Battle.

IGC Sadurní, assault tank version

IGC Sadurní, universal carrier version

IGC Sadurní, artillery tractor version

The artillery tractor version will come with a 155mm Schneider gun and crew.

CP Models: Medusharks, Alien Scientists and more!

Just found these new 15mm Science Fiction miniatures from CP Models.

Medusharks

Alien Scientists

Alien Guards

Assault Bots



Dragon, Alien Mutant and Alien Bot, available as single figures

Crocodile Games: More miniatures for Kickstarter

Crocodile Games: Things have been a little quiet here on the Croc page for last few months, as we have been working behind-the-scenes on something big: the WarGods Kickstarter! 

We are putting the final touches to a Kickstarter project that will launch at the beginning of June and run throughout that month. The goal will be to fund the production and printing of the WarGods of Olympus rulebook, and to get the latest miniatures into production, including new Demigods, Trojans, Amazons -- and possibly much more if the campaign is successful!