Wargames Atlantic Preview New Dark Age Irish Sprues
December 20, 2019 by brennon
Wargames Atlantic are churning out the goodies right now and they have moved onto another peek at the Dark Age Irish who will be popping up soon. This sprue here gives you an idea of what is going to be in the box straight out of the factory.
As you can see, you get a selection of different bodies in striking poses as well as a range of weapons. This brings into the mix a selection of javelins and hand weapons plus some shields which hold off attacks and missiles. Obviously, you have the heads and as an interesting twist a bunch of dogs/hunting hounds which will be chasing down your foes.
I'd hazard to say that they might even be actual Irish Wolfhounds which would be great to see painted up, stalking through the grass in order to drag down your prey.
What do you think?
"What do you think?"
Five guy’s a commander an two hunting dog’s is a nice size for a adventure game?
6 sprues in a box and will probably only cost £25 rrp. Good value as well.
5 sprues, 10 dogs and 30 men in a box, so a bit less but still spectacular value
I thought 6×6 was 30 last night. I am smrt!
> 5 sprues, 10 dogs and 30 men in a box, so a bit less but still spectacular value
That’s only two boxes you need for a Rangers of Shadowdeep all-hound companion band. 😀
That would be an interesting war band, is the ranger the dog loving neighbor from “a Christmas Story”?
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I’m sure I saw a picture of the painted dogs on social media a few days back, but I’ll be damned if I can find it again. They look great! Can’t wait to get my hands on these.
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Would have like to have seen them a little more historically accurate.
I’ve not been able to find assembled examples. What do you believe is at issue?
It’s a little unfair to make judgements based on an single photo of a test sprue, but the shields dont look like ones used in Ireland during the Dark Ages, some of the weapon choices seem a little odd for Irish Kern/Light infantry and they dont see to have the darts. I cant see the clothing to comment and cant see the heads well enough to seeing any have the leather helmet worn by some. I’m guessing a command sprue might have models in the hide armour and boiled leather cuirass, or the bronze plates. However I’m no expert on… Read more »
this is for the Viking Era so they should work out for Saga Irish (not as sure on the Irish as much as the Saxons and Vikings cause all the books seem too darned focused on England), the Kerns your talking about where more the Middle Ages(HYW)to early renaissance (WoR)which is a tad later. That said a shield swap here and little green stuff there might get you some nice Kerns.
They have clothes on, my Dark Age Irish from Footsore are naked, lol. Joking aside they look good but a little too generic but I am hoping that they will mix in with my Irish. Pity no Great Axes but i do love them and will be collecting them.
Definitely getting some of these and more Footsore too just for good measure.
I’ll stick to my metal Gripping Beast Welshies but these look superb. I can’t wait to see what’s next from this company
colour me interested, but is it me or are there 11 bucklers for a 6 man sprue? (well 10 if you want to be charitable and not count the shield that’s reversed so you cant tell what variant it is).
Seems overkill when they could add more unclothed arm variants for topless Joe, I count only 2 options for him.
Excited for these!
So, which one is Lloydie?
Nice. Might grab a box
Taking Saga as an example…. Will a box of these give you the sort options to field a full team of warhounds and a reasonable force of warriors / levies?
I think that I will be adding these to my mix!