Jägers! Plus, Spanish Guerrillas Coming Soon For Black Powder
August 9, 2021 by brennon
Some new releases and some pre-orders from Warlord Games this week for those diving into the 28mm Historical wargame, Black Powder. We start with a band of Prussian Jägers who are available for you to snap up now and send ranging into the woods.
Napoleonic Prussian Jägers // Warlord Games
Elite light infantrymen, these marksmen were perfect when attached to larger companies and used as skirmishers. Nothing annoys your enemy more than being attacked from the flank or rear by soldiers using a few sneaky tactics. They were often armed with rifles although apparently there was no hard and fast rule as to which one they should use. So, they often carried around quite the assortment.
Spanish Guerrillas
As well as the Prussian soldiers, we also got a look at the new Spanish Guerrillas sets which are available for pre-order. These sets will be released in September.
Napoleonic Spanish Guerrillas // Warlord Games
Led by colourful yet ruthless men, these Spanish Guerrillas were the bane of the French. They would run the "little war" and attack the French army in any way they could. Wellington was lucky to have these soldiers on his side of the conflict and it was by their hand that many French soldiers were turned away from the advancing British forces.
Napoleonic Spanish Guerrillas // Warlord Game
These miniatures have therefore been designed to show off the mix of different men and women who would fight as irregular troops as part of the Spanish army. I like that you've got such diversity and variety within this pack, especially in their attire. They would make for perfect miniatures for a bespoke scenario too as you hunt down French troops marching through the countryside.
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It was actually a pleasant surprise to see these as we haven’t seen a 28mm Black Powder release from Warlord Games in quite a while. These are actually reasonably nice-looking sculpts the Spanish have some character and variation. I’m a big fan of the Prussians so will be pickup up a pack of the Jagers and the Spanish Guerrillas look good too so those shall also be going on the list. There also in Metal rather than resin, woohoo! My only complaint is the price, £11.25 for 6 figures is pretty costly when you can get 6 from Perry Miniatures… Read more »
Yeah my brother was looking at some Warlord stuff a little while ago and was shocked by the prices of things there. I hadn’t really kept track of it with being on a bit of a spending hiatus, but they really have raised their prices quite a lot recently.
Well under 2 pounds a mini is not bad but I accept the point about the postage perhaps more reason to go to a local hobby store if your are luckly to have one that will stock them.
Sadly I think Perry prices are going to have to go up soon as well. The price of metal and transport costs have increased so much this year it is only a matter of time before companies have to put up proces sadly.
Sadly it’s become almost impossible to get Warlords metal blisters in local hobby stores (except bolt action) at least in my area of the UK, though if you know anywhere I’d love to know. If you look at some of the other manufactures of the Napoleonic metal minis (that are arguably better quality in casting and sculpting) they all fall in a standard price range of £7-8 for 6. Perry, Calpe, Front Rank, even some of the more specialist companies such as offensive miniatures only charge £10 for 8. The pricing in the wider hobby context isn’t that bad as… Read more »
Great looking figures the gorilla group’s would be good for the pirate game’s as town’s people fighting them.
Having just re-read Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell I was immediately thinking of using these to recreate moments from the book version of the Peninsular War. That said, is there a game system that allows you to introduce magicians into the Napoleonic Wars?
Kings of War Historical includes gunpowder units so you could create army lists. Totally compatible with Kings of War Fantasy so you could add magic to a Napoleonic ga.e
The Purssians I thought looked nice but I am blown away by those Spanish Guerrillas. They look amazing I am sure helped by that paint job but the mix of different outfits and styles. I am sure they could find uses across a number of different games.
Oh so much good stuff out this week.