Footsore Release New Shieldmaidens & Viking Skirmish Force
July 4, 2018 by brennon
Footsore Miniatures has now released their set of Viking Shieldmaidens starting with the Viking Valkyrie and her Banner Bearer...
With sword and shield at the ready, hunkered down amidst the shield wall, she looks like she would be a deadly warlord to fight in combat. The Banner Bearer is also very cool and you could almost combine the two into a diorama if you wanted to I reckon.
We also have the set of Shieldmaidens which were previewed last week by Footsore. Each of them has a lot of swagger about them I think!
A nice mix of armour types, weapon choices and helmet designs means that you get some more individual looking warrior women to use in your games. Again, it's getting very hard not to get together a full-on Shieldmaiden force for SAGA II.
Raiding Force
As well as the Shieldmaidens above we mentioned they'd also created a new Skirmish Warband for SAGA. Well, here is the bundled pack.
Inside you get the Warlord and his Banner Bearer, both amazing models, two sets of Warriors with their spears at the ready and then two bands of Heathguard which could be mixed and matched to create a set of Berserkers and another as standard heavily armoured bodyguards.
What do you think of these new offerings to Odin?
"Each of them has a lot of swagger about them I think!"
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The Valerie’s rise again,great figure’s
Yes please.
One of the final touches I wanted to add to call my Viking war-band complete.
Look even better painted
Those look really good.
cheekily released them while I’m not in the country, that’s Andy being mean to me. Regardless home soon and I’ll be ordering them once I get back in country, just need Bill’s bowmen and my vikings are complete, they’re due in August. Happy days 🙂
I have the Footsore Irish (tempted to get the Scots next), I have always been a fan of Bills sculpting (back when we used to see him at shows before he moved to the US). He has a distinctive style and his sculpts always have great posing.
On the subject of Shield maidens (and rivet counting), how often were they in the field (or was it a more ceremonial or mythic thing)?