Victrix Miniatures Hit The Mark With New Dacian Archer
June 12, 2019 by cassn
Victrix Limited have revealed the first render of their new Dacian archer miniatures. Dacians were ancient inhabitants of the cultural region of Dacia, near the Carpathian Mountains and west of the Black Sea.
Dacia was home to vast gold mines and wealth. After several tense battles and incursions, the Romans finally defeated their Dacian neighbours in 105AD, and celebrated by throwing the most expensive and longest ludi (festival) in Roman history with the spoils of war.
However, this Dacian archer is not giving up without a fight! Victrix Limited have included multiple arm options so he can be drawing an arrow or ready in firing pose against the Roman forces.
While this brave warrior is currently on his own, Victrix Limited have promised more images of other archers will be released in the coming weeks. Until then, you can get a closer look at this Dacian archer on Facebook.
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"This Dacian archer is not giving up without a fight!"
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Those look really nice.
I’ll be super impressed if these can be replicated from the plastics. Plus no honeycomb chainmail is a bonus!
Now THIS is a render that has me going WANT (not always happens with Vitrix), again be interesting to see how the render turns out in physical form. But the posing (for a multi-part plastic) is spot on, and the level of detail is spot on (not overly done). Dacians were always an interesting army to play as they were almost always pitted against Roman’s Legions (and in most Wargames rules, that’s an uphill battle to fight them). 🙂
they look good.
These look great!
Not sure why they’re marketing them as “Dacian” when there’s nothing Dacian about them but that’s a big bonus in my book, these could fit in any European Army from Ancients to Medieval.
I presume the rest of the box set will have warriors armed with the falx
Well the BIG give away is the recurve bow (you don’t see that in Western European use), along with the slit tunic and sandals. You could probably get away with using at as a Persian Archer, but the Greeks thought trousers were positively “barbaric” (as did the Romans). The “trouser wearers” in Western Europe at this time would have had turned their nose up at sandals (you can’t kick a Roman in the head with em), so all in all it IS pretty Dacian 🙂
Everyone used Mercenaries or Auxiliaries especially the Romans post Marius and since we don’t really know much about how they were equipped one very plausible option is that they simply bought along their own traditional weapons and clothing especially if they were going into a “Specialist” Role like Archers or Cavalry. Recurve Bows have been found all over the Empire from Scotland to Egypt hardly a BIG Giveaway. Recurve Bows were very much seen in Western use and continued in Western Use until the Crossbow took over in the late Medieval period. After Marius the Romans accepted that they sucked… Read more »