Watch The Skies For Two New Wild West Exodus Posse Sets
June 12, 2019 by brennon
We're looking to the skies for two very different Posse Sets for Wild West Exodus this month. Leading the way we have the Death From Above Posse for the Warrior Nation.
The set comes with a range of powerful Warrior Nation characters for you to use on the tabletop including Alcon The Sky Spirit, Ahota The Tireless, Manaba The Oath Keeper and Tiponi The Vengeful. Each of them was given the gift of flight after their spirit walk, becoming one with the birds of the skies.
I really like the Warrior Nation as a faction in Wild West Exodus. As well as being nice and inventive with the characters and the stories behind them the sculpts look awesome. I love were-folk of any persuasion so seeing people who turn into bears, wolves, birds and more is really up my street!
Amber Aliens
As well as the forces of the Warrior Nation we're also looking to the Watchers and their Amber Clade Posse Set.
This set contains Jocasta, the Amber Alpha as well as four Grey Elites and two Vermilion Sentinels. If you want to embrace that Sci-Fi edge to the world of Wild West Exodus then this is very much the set for you.
Whilst I'm not so much a fan of this faction, mainly because it's so very different from the Wild West Exodus I 'know' I do like the way they've done their aliens. They have taken that stereotypical look for the Grey and twisted it a bit to fit into the aesthetic of Wild West Exodus.
Jocasta here has been welcomed into the Hegemony because of her ability to harness psychic powers and so works as a go-between when it comes to human/watcher relations in Wild West Exodus. I'm sure that more than often this results in a firefight but she doesn't really give her foes that much choice I think!
"I love were-folk of any persuasion so seeing people who turn into bears, wolves, birds and more is really up my street!"
I really like those. Death from Above Posses gives me feel of Thanagarians from DCU that Hawkman and Hawkgirl sometimes belong to depending on what origin they happen to have.
I dig the Native American unit, but man those other minis (aliens don’t) fit into a wild west setting.
They do fit the WWE backstory that the game has developed. I can also see that they might work well in the new Antarctic setting that comes out later this year. I think theses may be duel role. That said I won’t be picking them up ( I will get the Native Americans) as I buy WWX for cowboys and six guns. My sci-fi tends to be grim dark or infinite
I don’t really care about the backstory. If a game is advertised to me as an outsider looking in, a wild west steampunk sci fi game with aliens that look completely out of place makes me think ‘Hard Pass’. Even in the context of a game setting (which can be easily re-wrttein or added to to force something out of style to fix) it does not work for me, regardless of what the in-world reason is. It just seems silly.
The Hawkmen are great. I have never watched the movie Cowboys v Aliens for a good reason. Jocasta would look more at home fighting against Spiderman in a comic book. Has that super villian vibe and those Greys would be awesome for other sci-fi games.
I love the detail on those wings, not really my cup of tea for a force but they really are amazing.
I may have to pick them up if my painting table ever empties a little, just to give them a go.
The Death from Above posse has more of a Mayan or Aztec vibe to it, imo, rather than the leather clad Native Americans of the rest of the Warrior Nation. And yes, I know, that, technically, those 2 cultures are “American”. Nice figures, though. Not sure about the elf ears.
Watch out Gordon the hawkmen are about again great figure’s.
don’t like the aliens, but winged warriors are cool
AS always Warcradle have outdone themselves with these lovely minis . Now if only I had the time to collect all of them … sigh