I think I've solved my problem!

Pendraken's very own Ratmen.

They have pole arms and blunderbusses and are 'large'; other things should be capable of being cobbled together from other bits and pieces, like artillery. And the reason behind this revelation? I found some photos on another thread!

Anyway thanks for all the suggestions...apart from the 'Burn the heretic' one...which although I assume it was meant in jest, I found it a little offensive, having spent two months in a burns unit when I was nineteen.

I think it might be as well to accept that the world isn't going to change its history, humour, and idiom to accommodate every unpleasant memory, and that offence lives in the intention more than in the overlaps of experience.
To put it differently, how many old soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder would find our very hobby objectionable?

Speaking as an 'old soldier' I quite agree, as I say I found the comment a 'little' objectionable. I'm not going to fly into a rage about it or sink into a deep depression! I just think people should be just a little more careful about what they say on the internet.

The thing is, had someone made that comment to my face it would probably have provoked a humorous come-back from me and I would have thought no more about it. But its there on the internet FOREVER! to be looked at every time myself or someone else reads this thread.

Think before you type...and I'm not suggesting self censorship, just a little thought.

those Miniatures are really cool!

It sounds to me like Pendraken's League of Ratsburg figures might fit the bill, especially as they are on the larger side. To be a little heretical as well, Kallistra also do a range of rat fantasy figures in the slightly larger 12mm size.