The Basilean Legacy Will Be Writ In Stone By August!
July 24, 2013 by brennon
Mantic Games have put up all of their Basilean Legacy line up for pre-order on their webstore. Check out a list of some of the miniatures below for Kings of War...
The book contains army lists for the elemental Forces of Nature, the Basilean Paladins and the Forces of the Abyss. However to start things off you better start collecting your holy army as the Basilean are out in force.
There are a few more other big models out there too and while I know a fair few of you aren't fans of the Basilean Men-At-Arms or the Sisterhood you can't deny that the Paladins are looking top notch. They look a lot like the Templars from Dragon Age so I think that's why I like them.
I have been thinking of ways I can include them in my existing armies and I reckon I'm going to use the Paladins as Grave Guard in my growing Vampire Counts army. Give them spectral faces and skin and then paint them as spirits in armour.
What do you think of the Basilean?
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Can’t deny that Brennon, you’re right there. Paladins do look nice. The rest imho though, simply do not. For cheap rank n’f file, they work just fine, but simply can’t immagine myself spending hours in painting them…
I don’t think that the men at arms look that bad either though I’m more interested in seeing the Forces of Nature list. I want to check if that will be a a good list for using Celt miniatures with the Albion Truthsayer, Rincewind and Cohen the Barbarian. Though I can still use the Kingdoms of men list if not but wasn’t a fan of the Priest in that list.
Man basileans look great.
I saw these at their last Mantic open day and the Paladins looked cool, I don’t think this picture does them as much justice than seeing them up close imho. 🙂
Mick
Maybe it’s just the fantasy tragic side of me talking but I think everything Mantic have put out for Kings of War has merit. Give them a few more years to expand and improve the range.
I say this a lot but if they re-do the Dwarfs then I am totally in there when it comes to collecting an army for Kings of War. I don’t like their bunched up look at all but if they could develop the range and bring it in keeping with the look we’ve seen from the Ogres (cartoonish but amazingly well sculpted) then that army will be filling my shelf.
BoW Ben
The beauty of Mantic is you may need more than one shelf too.
This is exactly what happens when, I’ll put it nicely, “people” demand Mantic bring out unique armies. You get those awful sister models (which they must have spent a lot of cash making). The rest of the army looks either pretty good or good enough but I don’t see too many people but the real test for Mantic’s IQ is if these minis are compatible with other 28mm models such as GW, by that I mean head swaps etc. The current heads look pretty rubbish I have to say. Pretty happy with the scale of the horses. @brennon give their… Read more »
I wonder why they call them Basileans? Anything to do with Mister Fawlty? 🙂 I watched the Ronnie and James vid on Mantic (guys please for all our sakes show them how to set up microphones) and seeing some of these minis in extreme closeup was surprising as they have more detail than I expected. Well done Mantic!