Let Arrows Fly With Gripping Beast Shieldmaidens
August 27, 2019 by brennon
Gripping Beast have some new options for those building up a Viking warband to use in SAGA. Here we have the Shieldmaiden Archers set which will give you some alternative Levy to throw into the mix.
Whilst the image here shows just four Archers you will get yourself twelve of them in the set, enough to form a proper unit. There is a pool of these four to choose from so there might be a bit of variation in what metal figures you get.
As both Lloyd and I have said, Archers get such a raw deal in most wargames. They are usually made so useless that there's very little point worrying about them! Once you get down the skirmish level though with a handful of models on each side having access to a bow can make you a deadly shot, just as I'd hope.
So, whilst you can use these as your SAGA Levies I would also suggest maybe bringing them into a more man-to-man style game like Blood Eagle or Ragnarok perhaps?
Will you be picking these up?
"...you will get yourself twelve of them in the set"
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Those look nice.
Shame the painting looks rushed when care was taken with the basing.
nice.
Seriously, these look quite dated. Apart from the horrible painting, is this another rebrand of existing (old) miniatures?
Not impressed with the sculpts or the paintng tbh. They look like some of the sub-par stuff that Foundry perpetrated back before Bryan Ansell rerurned and kicked their arses back into gear. I mean they have hams for hands, ridiculously disproportionate waists, huge feet, melon heads….
I think the Beast dropped the ball on this one. Not a patch on Bad Squiddo’ s.