Wargame news from Victrix, Wargames Factory, ...

Hi, here's another newsflash about the newest releases of the wargame industry! First of all we have Victrix which is proud to announce that the four napoleonic Austrian army sets are due to be released! Each of these sets will include 48 Infantry, 2 officers, 2 drummers, 2 flagbearers and 2 mounted colonels. Giving you a total of 56 miniatures for only £20! This also allows players to make two full 24 men-battalions.

The four sets are

• Austrian infantry (helmet)
• Austrian infantry (shako)
• Austrian grenadiers (of which you can see a picture below)
• Austrian landwehr

But if that wasn't enough Victrix is also releasing their metal British Light Dragoons for the Peninsular War 1808-1812 uniform both command and troopers. These figures have been sculpted by Paul Hicks. He has put some great character and movement into these models and they are packed with fine, crisp detail making them a joy to paint.

Yes! And finally there are pictures of the Perry Miniature plastic Ansar! The box contains 40 28mm multi-part, hard-plastic miniatures, including command. These can be assembled to represent the Beja (Fuzzy Wuzzies) (early or late war), Kordofan rebels, or Nile Arabs that fought the British and Egyptian forces between 1881-85 during the Mahdist Uprising. There are two command sprues and three infantry on which are 40 Beja heads, and 40 bare-headed and capped ones as well. All arms are separate with a mixture of spears, swords, throwing sticks, and eight rifles. The 36 shields are intended for the Beja.

The full content of the box, 40 miniatures for only £18! Perry quality at a more than reasonable price!

And Warlord Games is also releasing lots of new miniatures! First of all we have the Puma armoured car! The Puma is one of the best-looking armoured cars of WWII. A variant of the Sdkfz 234 it boasted a fully enclosed turret with a 5cm gun and thicker armour than other variants. Despite this additional armour the Puma was still capable of speeds greater than 50 miles per hour (that's 85km to you metrically obstinate Europeans) and saw use as a scout vehicle as even the thickened armour didn't offer much in the way of protection.

The second new kit is the Russian anti-tank team! With a lack of their own anti-tank weapons the Soviet forces had to be resourceful when fighting German armour. Our Anti Tank team consists of three men, one with a Soviet anti-tank rifle, one with a captured Panzerfaust and finally a dog handler armed with a PPsh. The dog is an anti-tank dog and has been trained to search for food under tanks. When carrying an explosive pack this makes for an effective, certainly controversial, anti-armour weapon.

There's also some news from Northstar Military Figures, no new miniatures but finally they have added some more photo's of the great DeeZee Miniatures prehistoric animals! Just look at this massive beast!

And at last we have a preview of the Wargames Factory artwork for their Shocktroopers heavy weapons set! Not sure what you are thinking but I think it's a massive improvement especially when compared with their British firing line artwork!

I hope you enjoyed this newsflash!

Greets,