Gripping Beast’s Undead Rise & Shieldmaidens Do Battle
March 30, 2019 by brennon
Two new fully metal sets are now available from Gripping Beast for you to get stuck into when it comes to SAGA and the new Age Of Magic expansion too. We start off in the Historical however and their new Shieldmaidens.
The Shieldmaidens Set contains enough for you to start playing games at four points. It's awesome to see an entire force of warrior women, ready to throw down on the tabletop, and with the addition of a few more models from the likes of Bad Squiddo Games, you'd suddenly have a fearsome fighting force that could go raiding along the coast of Britain.
The Undead Rise
If you're looking forward to Age Of Magic then you might want to delve into the Undead Legion Warband that Gripping Beast has put together.
Here you get a mindless horde of shambling zombies, skeletal warriors drawn from the depths of a barrow and a warlord ready to lead them all into battle. This set is looking pretty cool although something about the painting here doesn't actually let you see too much of the detail work. I think I'd have to see these in the flesh to tell whether or not I liked them.
Sly Sorcerers
As well as these larger warbands the team have also chosen two Sorcerer models you could use as spellcasters in your games. The first of these, rather originally called Sorcerer A, looks more like a dread wight, summoned forth and now ready to claim vengeance.
Sorcerer B, on the other hand, looks like a mortal although I wouldn't say that he is any saner than the previous spellcaster.
Both of these would be good options for either undead hordes or barbarian tribes that are making their way to battle in Age Of Magic. I reckon you could also get away with using the second spellcaster as a wyrd of some kind in one of your Viking warbands too.
What do you make of the new offerings from Gripping Beast?
"What do you make of the new offerings from Gripping Beast?"
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Interesting departure for a largely historical company to have a bash at some fantasy. Choice is always better but I’m not sure this offers much different to what is already out there. I do love the second sorcerer though so that is definitely going on the to buy list.
It’s a shame that I already have enough undead minis… Just kidding, nobody has ever managed to accumulate enough undead… 😉 They are all glorious sculpts – not a Saga player (yet…) but could quite easily see these models being incorporated into various other fantasy projects. Glorious paint jobs but I think for the purposes of the display photos they could have maybe used a background with greater contrast to bring out the ring on Sorcerer A’s right hand that he is using as a focus to channel arcane energies, just to make it clear that he is not using… Read more »
Sorcerer two looks like they are under the influence of something illicit and is tripping his balls off rather than doing sorcery
Those look really good.
lol is that Justin’s head staring at the sorcerers wand ?
I would love to see the battle bords from both these factions. Can saga be played as historical against magic?
Love the Skeletons and the undead sorcerer. Very nice.
Wish they would have gone a bit more historical on the undead – zombie vikings, skeleton legionairies, etc. These look like standard fantasy undead, of which there are a ton of sets already available.