Bavarian Infantry Marching Forth From Victrix Soon
October 22, 2021 by brennon
Victrix Limited won't be turning up at Salute this year but they have been showing off more of their Napoleonic range with some 28mm Bavarian Infantry. A big new plastic set is on the way!
Bavarian Infantry // Victrix Limited
There are going to be all manner of interesting options within this set. You will be able to build fifty-eight figures that can be broken down into attacking and firing line figures as well as those marching forward. You will also find two command frames in the pack that come with a mounted officer or colonel and loads of other standard options.
Bavarian Infantry // Victrix Limited
The idea behind this kit is that it has been designed to give you some really detailed plastic troops for one of the more neglected Napoleonic nations. There are lots of great options in here for making marching troops or more dynamic soldiers that are in the midst of the action. I like that you've got a lot of them reloading, aiming and firing at will.
It's neat to see more folks looking to expand the options for the Napoleonic era and I imagine a lot of people are going to be snapping these up when they finally release in the next few months.
Bavarian Infantry Command // Victrix Limited
If you're interested in checking out more of these Bavarians then you can head on over to their blog where they showed off the way that the sprues have come together and more individual units. It does seem like a great way to bulk out a Bavarian force.
Are you tempted to snap up these plastic miniatures?
"It does seem like a great way to bulk out a Bavarian force..."
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Very nice, look forward to getting these even if I don’t play Napoleonics.
I am currently painting up 1/72 Bavarians, but these are sooooooooo much nicer. Maybe in a year or two when I start playing Sharp Practice again, I might build a Bavarian force. The Lardies have a free army list for them – iirc.
Or maybe I might get a sprue off ebay when they come out and build a Bavarian team for The Silver Bayonet.
Given the variety in the set, I’d say it’s almost a perfect Army in a Bag for Sharp Practice.
Lardies army list of Sharp Practice, for reference for anyone looking for it
https://toofatlardies.co.uk/bavarian-army-lists-for-sharp-practice/
Can’t wait for these to come out, they teased them what felt like years ago and will be a really nice addition to the Napoleonic range, and a first in plastic at 28mm. The mounted commander is a really nice touch in the victrix kits so great to see this continued. No details on pricing yet but I suspect these might be at their new higher price similar to the normans (£38) rather than matching their older Napoleonic pricing (£25), even so these really are fantastic value still, considering the range of figure variety, the quality of victrix sculpting and… Read more »
Actually, a correction, Hat Industrie (who usually make 1/72nd scale kits) made some Bavarians in 28mm around 2009, though in the softer plastic they use.
http://www.hat.com/current28.html
I have actually had the opportunity to inspect the Hat ones up-close and they are not as good as these though. I think the mounted officer is a new thing for Victrix?
Yeah the hat ones still have the 1/72 scale look to them, shame as I have fond memories of the old Hat kits, they seem to have dropped the 28mm line around 2010, I guess they just don’t have the right tooling or sculpting expertise to suit it vs the hard plastic sets.
The Austrian sets have the mounted officer, which really is a nice touch as you can add them into the units or use them separately as commanders.
They look great love the sharp shooters? looking as if they’re up on a ridge/wall picking off people as they struggle to get to them.
Highly detailed and a great addition to napoleonics
I just wish Victrix would do these (and basically their whole catalogue) in 15mm. There once was a time when 15mm was THE popular scale and the reasons for so still stand today. I just don’t have the table space to do a mass battle game in 28mm, and for most 28mm means “skirmish” level games like Sharpes Practice. But for me Naps means MASS battles and refighting the historical battles of the day. Now I don’t know who is going to break the barrier first for 15mm Naps. It could be Warlord with their “weird” insistence on 13.5mm scale… Read more »
It is an interesting idea, that victrix’s range is digitally sculpted (or at least a lot of it is) would facilitate them rescaling them reasonably easy in theory, but I think the reality is they would need resculpting, things like the size of weapons and bayonets would probably be hard to cast once scaled down to allow the injection process to work. When warlord brings out their Epic Waterloo set it will inevitably revive some interest in the smaller scale Napoleonics but I think 28mm is here to say for the foreseeable as the main scale. Economically it’s going to… Read more »
Well it’s no secret that Warlord are planning on doing some Naps in their “Epic” scale (so probably in strips like the ACW releases), they even did a poll sometime back asking what two armies you would like to see (presumably for a starter set). Problem is it’s going to be 13.5mm scale (I loath them for being an asshat in doing such a weirdass scale), and the only other manufacturer that you can get minis that roughly match the scale are from Kallistra (12mm), but although they have ACW minis they don’t do Naps (so Warlord are going to… Read more »
The high costs of metal was the reason I did not start my armies in 15mm. To build the army I wanted to build would have sent me way over-budget. But I did find a ‘solution’ in 1/72 scale. The figures are still as cheap as chips and the quality has improved a lot. The Strelets range of British and Bavarians are very good and characterful for their price range, and I have high hopes for their French in summer uniform. Also the French Light infantry of the Hat range is very good. You might have a problem with uniforms… Read more »
Bavarians were the only thing that could have tempted me to do another force for Sharp Practice.
These look great.
I do really like the Victrix ranges – I have lots and I much prefer plastics to metal