Warlord Create A Viking Raiding Party With Saxon’s Range
September 2, 2017 by brennon
Saxon Miniatures is transitioning to new ownership and Warlord Games has now banded together with them to produce a new Viking Raiding Party set for your Dark Age games in Hail Caesar for example.
Collecting together a range of different units these breaks down into a neat set of warriors that would set to the high seas in search of plunder on distant shores. This set comes with the rather awesome Revel Plastic Viking Ship...
...which would be epic as part of our Kattegat board based on the Vikings TV show. Of course, if you were looking to find a leader for this set then Harald Steptoesson might be worth checking out.
You might recognise him as the warrior from the front cover of the Army Lists book which is used alongside Hail Caesar.
Could this be the time you snap up a Viking warband for SAGA and the like?
"Collecting together a range of different units these breaks down into a neat set of warriors that would set to the high seas in search of plunder on distant shores..."
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Those are rather nice.
Still, how best to base the ship? – could it be set in a clay-sculpted sea-painted base?
Really pleased that Saxon have found a new home and also pleased it’s Warlord. I’m not a historical gamer however I love that Warlord have stepped in and essentially saved two companies now, Saxon and Wargames Factory. And I have to say I have been tempted on a couple of occasions to look at historical miniatures for a Kingdoms of Men army for Kings of War so there’s definitely a chance I will end up shopping at Warlord at some point in the future
Oh and that collection looks pretty awesome.
Don’t worry … you too will find a historical game that you like.
It happens to everyone eventually.
Heck, games like ‘Kings of War’ can be pretty ‘historical’ if you avoid the magic & monsters.
So you’re just one small step away already … 😉
Doubt it. I kind like what might be called Hollywood Historics – Wild West, Pirates, that sort of thing. I don’t think I would go much further than that
Hollywood Historics is a kind of historical.
So what if it’s not a perfect copy of the real thing ?
There’s nothing wrong with adding a few mythical ‘what if’ elements to an army either.
Not everyone is a rivet counting historian.
It’s not as if the division between ‘historical’ and ‘fantasy/SF’ is a strict one.
There are lots of shades in between.
Remember how Warren started with Flames of War and his ‘Nachtwulfen’ ?
Some historic genres lend themselves to dramatisation/fictionalisation more than others.
3 companies they also in the dawn of time picked up a range/company called Bolt Action
Can I ask how you know Saxon miniatures were in trouble? They’ve been expanding their miniature range a lot over recent years (and the minis I own of theirs are fantastic, at least as good as GB if not better in some instances) – is there anything to suggest this is nothing other than Warlord helping with publication and distribution?
they’re weren’t and they’re not. About 6 weeks ago Colin, the owner of Saxon, posted that he was looking for someone to take over.
This wasn’t because they were struggling, it was because they were too successful. Colin was sculpting, casting, dealing with orders all by himself and as they got more successful sculpting fell by the wayside as he had more orders to deal with.
The idea behind selling was to allow him to sculpt and grow the range while someone else dealt with the customer service side.
This is no different to what Northstar do in regards to taking over the admin for companies for example Crusader and Copplestone
indeed, but in no way were they in trouble is the main thrust here
Warlord didn’t save either company, both were acquired for different reasons, but neither company was in trouble and required saving.
From what I have seen about Wargames Factory, they were having (and had previously had) a lot of difficulties. They might not have been in financial difficulty but they had experienced significant issues around production and logistics that were harming their business. It’s a long time ago now and I can’t remember all the specifics and the announcement that they posted on their website lost to internet history. However it’s quite probable that Wargames Factory would have started to fail if they weren’t already
no it had had problems and then was bought out by the partner/co owner who owned the Chinese factory, essentially to recoup the losses the WF part were incurring through piss poor management he bought it out and started doing the much more business savy moves, like producing Dreamforge games stunning range of plastics. Any problems they had were long dealt with. From what I understand the WG buyout was simply to gain access to the moulds worth having and the manufacturing side, while the Chinese part of the WF venture were looking to offload a mini company that they… Read more »
I thought Warlord were only distributing?
I have no idea what deal has been struck. But Colin was looking for someone to buy him and the business and then with the Deal done he said it was transitioning to new owners.
It’s been a while since I last looked I just seem to recall them saying that Warlord would now be distributing the products. That said, Warlord also seem to be reboxing them, using them in their own games etc which kind of points at ownership. Either way it’s still good, IMO, that they acquired them.
Harald Steptoesson – not he from near the Bush of the Shepherd by any chance?
Please tell me some people did get the joke???
I got it. I noticed first time I saw the miniature.
As with all the Warlord specials the name is a story by it self
a great looking ship.