More 10mm Previews Introduce Gripping Beast’s Romans
September 17, 2019 by brennon
Gripping Beast has been previewing some more 10mm soldiers for use in your small scale wargames set during the Ancient period.
This shows off an enemy for the Parthians to battle against, the Roman Auxiliaries. The set comes clad in the armour of their patrons and whilst most likely taken from the various kingdoms conquered by the Romans they now have a fierce loyalty to the cause.
A full-on Roman army seems to be on the way as they revealed the Roman Legionaries this week too.
Parthians Gathered
As well as the Romans shown above there was also a full look at the Parthian army which got previewed over the past week.
Here you can see the ranks of cavalry arrayed at the back as well as skirmishers and horse archers at the front. You also have the additional Commander figures we looked at too. A few folks have said that this is a neat first attempt at bringing 10mm troops into the mix for Gripping Beast.
Are you going to be picking up these 10mm soldiers when they release?
"Are you going to be picking up these 10mm soldiers when they release?"
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Those are nice.
The arms on the command stand just look wrong
I didn’t notice until you mentioned it but they look too long – they could tie their shoe laces standing up straight.
Ooh nice rank an file troops for the scale.
In case people want to know all these 10mm GB figures will be in metal
Over all those are nice.
They are ok, but I much prefer 15mm as my eyes can’t paint 10s anymore.
Will these be used for Swordpoint?, or a different system?
I was of the impression that Swordpoint was not a foot-print wargame like Kings of War, but removed figures as damage accrued on units.
@nightrunner Gripping Beast are releasing a version of Swordpoint called Milites Mundi smaller scale figures in November
Thanks for the reply!
Why do the rules need changing for smaller figures? (I’m not familiar with the rules bit I know Swordpoint has no figure removal, for example)
No idea. I dont know anything about Swordpoint and I heard a demo game of this smaller scale version ws bring played at Joy of 6
I think the Milites Mundi rules has a different basing system (40mm X 80mm I think) and a bit like Kings of War/Warmaster, you just stick a specific number of figures on the base. Sword Point is more of a Skirmish style basing system with individual bases for each figure….if I’ve got that right?
Good to see the Gripping Beast foray into 10mm ancients.