Warlord Gather Together Two 1000 Denarii SPQR Warbands
October 9, 2019 by brennon
The folks at Warlord Games have brought together some rather large warbands for you to use in SPQR. If you're looking for a hefty degree of Caesarian Romans and Gallic warriors angry at these upstart invaders you're in for a treat.
The first set of models include twenty-four plastic Infantry, nine resin Cavalry options and then one resin Scorpion crew. This should give you a lot of different options for bringing together a Roman warband, tweaking things to suit whatever your enemy can throw at you. You could certainly use one of the mounted figures or the unmounted legionaries to act as your hero in this set.
Gallic Rage
As well as Caesar's Legions up above the Gauls will have something to say in return.
This is a pretty impressive set which comes with twenty plastic Infantry, forty resin infantry, seven resin Cavalry figures and then twelve resin Dogs who will be hounding routed Romans through the forests of Europe. You can also get some heroes of legend for this set as they've tagged on Vercingetorix and Lucterius too. I like the addition of the mounted leader holding that head high and a Druid to make sure your Gallic warriors know what they are fighting for!
Make sure to check out both of these sets if you're looking to try SPQR or perhaps another Ancient game that has caught your eye.
What do you think of the two sets?
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They would work well for Clash of Spears
two great sets of figures.
Rebranding of old figures. Buy Victrix instead would be my recommendation.
They’d be good for Clash of Spears.
Instead of rebundling old kits they should be playtesting their rules.
About as lazy as it gets. Can’t say much about the Gauls as I haven’t work on mine yet. As far as the Romans go the cavalry is so so, but the legionaries are just poor kits now and very dated. If you can pick them up very cheaply that’s fine, the bundles aren’t cheap.
I think the Ceasarian plastics are a LOT better than the old Imperial Roman ones (are these the ones you are think of) as the Imperials were Warlord first ever release in plastic. Never been a fan of the plastic Gauls however, but the resin (remastered from the metals) are a lot better as well.
They might well be I don’t know the old Imperial ones, but no I don’t mean them ;). I mean those Ceasarian ones up there. Okay I’l admit I was building them at the same time as a new GW kit which is worlds apart in terms of detail and material (and price). Nonetheless I found the plastic poor, extension mould lines, washed out detail. Options for posing aren’t extensive. You are going to get 4 standard bares/trumpeters in that lot and you don’t need that. As a very cheap alternative to bulk out an army maybe they are okay,… Read more »
There are two types of replies here and they are “Oh I could use this for clash of spears” or “These are shit buy somewhere else”.
Totally understand both but ouch to Warlord. I got the SPQR starter set and feel like I may have jumped onto a dead game here. But I quite like the minis and its not bad value. (TBH I think two starter sets are a better deal than these warbands).
Warlord are the new GW, everyone hates them now and thinks their figures are crap. Their plastic resin is very good unlike finecast and I quite like their figures as well.
But no matter what anyone says, Victrix can’t do mail. Their models that don’t have mail look great.
Honeycomb does not look like mail, though. It looks like Honeycomb and something that should be full of honey, not something that could stop an arrow or sword.
To be fair it’s a problem (been saying this for years now), that many “in house” ruleset from mini manufacturers just aren’t that good. I think they try too hard to make the rules as appealing to as many broad churches of wargamer as possible (and they all end up a bit bland and simplistic for my personal preference). When authors for rules like Clash of Spears do a ruleset, it’s all they sell (so all their focus is on the rules). Wargamers then pick and choose from the available rulesets for what they want from a game and are… Read more »
I think it’s a problem with ancients in general that they try and cover 4000 odd years of history and changing warfare with one ruleset
This conversation is worth having on pointless views. Thoughts @warzan?
I joined the Facebook group for SPQR and it was full of arguments. I can’t help but want to side with the detractors – SPQR feels like Saga without the any incentives not to make a big death star or the flavorful mechanics like managing fatigue.
Warlord in general does deserve some credit for releasing great plastics and mainstreaming historical gaming.
I think I will stick with Gripping Beast for my ancients. Does anyone know how I can get my hands on a copy of Clash of Spears? I have searched the Wargames Illustrated website and can’t find it on their shop site.
It’s not been released yet. November sometime I think.
Try http://www.thewargamespot.com/
Worth keeping an eye on Victrix as well, they are going to be releasing boxed sets to fit in with the game – Romans, Celts and Carthaginians.
Thanks, Torros, I thought I was going mad.