Warband Dragonmen and Dark Elves released!

[Leon]

It's been a while since our last new Warband range, so we've got a double-header to make up for it!  

First up we've got the brand new Dragonmen covering everything from men-at-arms to knights to dragons of course.  These are all brand new sculpts (hence the longer timescales to get them ready) but they're certainly worth the wait as Techno has done a cracking job on them.

Secondly we've got our new Dark Elves as well, with new warriors, raptor-riders and witches ready to take to the table.  

As with all of our Warband ranges, each pack contains all different sculpts, so that's 25 different figures in the foot packs and 12 different poses in the cavalry.

Dragonmen - http://www.pendraken.co.uk/Warband-Fantasy-NEW-c36/Dragonmen-sc354/
FAN-DME1   25 x Men-at-Arms   £4.95
FAN-DME2   25 x Archers   £4.95
FAN-DME3   12 x Knights   £4.95
FAN-DME4   5-man Baron Group   £2.50
FAN-DME5   5 x Wizard Priests   £1.65
FAN-DME6   25 x Archers-at-Arms   £4.95
FAN-DME7   25 x Crossbowmen   £4.95
FAN-DME8   25 x Handgunners   £4.95
FAN-DME9   25 x Foot Knights   £4.95
FAN-DME10   3 x Cannons with crew   £4.95
FAN-DME11   2 x Dragons with Knights   £4.95
FAN-DME12   25 x Peasants   £4.95
(packs are £4.95 each, command/wizards are £1.65)

Army Pack: Contains 3 packs of Men-at-Arms and 1 pack each of Archers, Knights, Barons, Wizard Priests and Cannons, plus 8 x MDF bases.  Priced at £30.00


Dark Elves - http://www.pendraken.co.uk/Warband-Fantasy-NEW-c36/Dark-Elves-sc355/
FAN-DEL1   25 x Warriors   £4.95
FAN-DEL2   25 x Crossbowmen   £4.95
FAN-DEL3   12 x Raptor-Riders   £4.95
FAN-DEL4   5-man Command Group   £1.65
FAN-DEL5   5 x Warlocks   £1.65
FAN-DEL6   12 x Witches   £2.50
(packs are £4.95 each, command/warlocks are £1.65)

Army Pack: Contains 3 packs of Warriors, 2 packs of Witches and 1 pack each of Archers, Raptor-Riders, Chieftains and Warlocks, plus 8 x MDF bases.  Priced at £30.00


And some pics of them all!

Dragonmen:


























Dark Elves:














We're not quite done for 2016 yet, so keep an eye out for a few more releases coming on New Year's Eve!

[Fenton]

Very nice

[fsn]

You know, some of those may actually be quite useful!


Hope you're enjoying your "break"!


Break (n) a pause in work or during an activity or event.

[Leon]

Hope you're enjoying your "break"!

Unfortunately not, the youngest brought me a bug back from school before Christmas, so I've been out of action for about a fortnight now.  I've managed to get some of these releases sorted out, but not much else.

[GrumpyOldMan]

Hello

Are the Dragonmen Fantasy proportion or can they mix in with hystericals?

Holidays are times to come down with illnesses we don't have time for during the working year.

Cheers, get better soon.

GrumpyOldMan

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Superb job on those, oh... definitely on the 'to buy' list!
Dark Elves, yum. Techno, great job on the witches, much more realistic!
Dragon knights, ohhhhh....

[Steve J]

Those Dragon Men are great and perfect for some Imagi-Nations forces

[PB]

Nothing here that fits into my immediate project plans (loose concept at best), but I do fancy painting some Dragonmen. Great stuff.

[Nosher]

What big choppers they have,,,,,, 

On my to buy list at some stage in 2016

[Techno]

Hello
Are the Dragonmen Fantasy proportion or can they mix in with hystericals?

They were done on 'fantasy' dollies, Grumps..So they are taller than 'historicals'.
You could ask Leon to pop a sample one in with your next order, so you can have a good 'compare ??

Cheers - Phil

[fsn]

I've managed to get some of these releases sorted out, but not much else.

So not having a break at all?

[Techno]

He's not the only one. 

And the MIL just gets worse and worse !

Cheers - Phil

[Bodvoc]

Both ranges look great, I need to re-write my 2017 painting list already

[Leon]

Are the Dragonmen Fantasy proportion or can they mix in with hystericals?

As Phil says above, these are bigger than the historicals so they wouldn't match up too well in the same unit.  The new cavalry are a lot chunkier than their historical counterparts.

So not having a break at all?

Nope!  I lost a week before we 'officially' finished work, so it was a bit chaotic getting those last few orders sent out before Christmas, and then I've been sleeping mostly since then.  

[fred.]

Liking the dragon men knights, both foot and mounted - very heroic. The flying dragons look cool too.

[Steeleye]

Ok I'm going to be honest here...which will probably piss some people off.

Oh well hear goes.

Left handed archers? I'm not saying that there never were left handed archers but I've never seen any pictures of any. Yes you can get away with left handed melee weapon fighters, but I draw the line at archers.

Shields, ok these are fantasy figures but round shields? Might work if they're lower class fighters. Also it looks like you've molded dragons onto the shield faces, something that'll need to be filed/cut off.

Poses, all the poses look a little wooden in the photographs, I hope they're better in the 'flesh'. Also the horses look a little odd, like they're crouched down or something.

Having said this I will be ordering some in the near future. I mean, I've been waiting for these for ages and no one does anything better that fits in with the other figures in the fantasy range.

I'll also be ordering some of those Dark Elf witches. As long as they haven't got long flappy, pointy ears (or at least ears that can be quickly remodeled) and they're not all wearing WWII RAF life jackets, they might be useful as an Amazon Army.

All in all and after waiting so long for these guys I'm just a little disappointed, I hope that they look better in the flesh than in the photos...and before anyone asks; yes I have made my own figures...its bloody difficult which is why I gave it up!

[Techno]

Doesn't pee me off, at all, Steeleye.

I know that I'll never please every single gamer 100% of the time.....I just have to accept that. 

Yes.....The 'kite' (?) shields HAVE got a dragon's head on them. My thought there, was that a lot of/most (?) folk would find it more convenient to have something 'ready and waiting' rather than having to paint on their own designs.....Basically trying to save folk time there.  ....In your case, obviously not....Sorry !

I did  'boob reductions' on the witch elves......So they've not got 'beach ball' chests, anymore....They may have got the tiniest bit  of pointy ear showing  ....I truly can't remember........ they've been away from Techno Towers for so long.

Cheers - Phil

[fsn]

I don't want to get into an argument, but why not have left handed archers? My understanding is that left handedness was more common, but when we started doing things like writing, then there as a social norm to become right handed. The companies that came to David at Ziklag, (1 Chron. xii. 2,) " were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left."*

Besides, it's fantasy. You're OK with dragon riders, but balk at left handers? It's a bit like a letter I saw sent to the Catwoman comic, saying that a woman of her build could not perform the gymnastics depicted. To which the answer was "you believe a man can fly, another can run at the speed of sound and a third can create physical apparitions from his willpower, but you don't believe a generously endowed woman can do backflips."

http://www.anythinglefthanded.co.uk/left-eye-dominance-and-archery.html#sthash.wMqLtxDk.dpbs


*https://www.archerylibrary.com/books/guide/docs/chapter1_1.html

[Bodvoc]

I was left handed until I went to school (in the sixties) and was 'encouraged' to be right-handed as writing is easier that way. I discovered a year ago when doing some archery with my daughters on an adventure holiday that I am a left handed archer, no big surprise to me as I play snooker left-handed and am/was left-footed for football.

[O Dinas Powys]

Amazing what you can do with a can of Stella!