Tor Gaming Preview Their Feudal Ridend In New Renders
April 5, 2015 by dracs
Tor Gaming are working on a new faction of goblinoid miniatures named the Ridend who are getting ready to go medieval on the enemy's backside.
Let Your Arrows Fly
First we get to see the archers of the Ridend, made up by their serf peasantry.
Archers were traditionally looked down upon as being a dishonourable form of warfare by Ridendean society, but with the world of Relicia the way it is this prejudice has quickly faded. While they might not have the accuracy or hitting power of the other factions' ranged weapons, a group of these archers together still provides vital support for such a feudal army.
We Fight on Foot
Of course, a feudal army would not be complete without honourable knights and the Ridend Foot Knights are taking to the field in search of glory.
The Knights of the Ridend must all start their quest for advancement by serving among the foot soldiers and men-at-arms of the peasantry, providing a valuable link between the elite ruling class and their subjects.
Given how sinister most of the factions of Relics, the Ridend's focus upon feudal ideals of honour are a rather refreshing addition, while their goblin-like design puts me in mind of some of the creatures you would find in Jim Henson's fantasy movies.
What are your thoughts about the Ridend?
"The Ridend's focus upon feudal ideals of honour are a rather refreshing addition."
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ha ha 🙂 love the bee on the shield 😛
ATM am slowly painting my way through the Britanans I have.
Had thought about some Vaettir, but despite my initial reaction to the Ridend, I think the quirky Froudesque nature has won me over.
Not sure how to explain how the mediaeval and the Enlightenment coexist.
Just put it down to being Relicia and the
Age of Unreason! lol
Those Knights are excellent. Quirky. A few more variants and they would make a nice unit for a fantasy game like KOW.
These are very characterful indeed. Nice to see a different take on the ubiquitous goblin.
They are chock full of character, I like them.
Love them! They would make a fun little Retinue for Lion Rampant!
Any goblin aesthetic that hearkens back to Brian Froud designs/illustrations are a must-buy for me.
I’m with you on that!
Think you mean Labyrinth iirc There were no goblins in Dark Crystal.
Sorry this was meant to go after some posts below.
No, I meant Dark Crystal, in terms of style. I never saw Labyrinth, but if there were Jim Henson goblins in there, I can imagine these being pretty close!
Made me think of Froud too 🙂
I don’t play relics, but i gonna own a lot of these miniatures, they are some of the most cool i seen in a long long time.
These models look really nice imho, and I have to say I have recently purchased the Brits too. I do have to say I detest the other factions tbh, which have always turned me off collecting any models at all from the range. I think when Tor Gaming put their minds to it, they can achieve some very nice result indeed!
The one thing that has put me off relic was that one faction (the red coat puppets) was awesome, but the rest were a bit meh. Now with two good factions I’m temptedto start.
Very cool miniatures.
I like all the races Tor have put out sadistic Dwarfs, evil fairies Orcnar SMASH
I think those are really sweet. Lots of character.
They remind me of Jim Henson’s Dark Crystal critters.
yeah thats it 🙂 thought i had seen em around somewhere
These guys would be fantastic gnoblars for any Ogre Kingdoms army, whether brettonian themed or not. Heck theyd make good men at arms for a Brettonian army! I love em.
Those are really neat.
I do like these a lot. I used to have a pet crow so that has probably and sort of remind me of him.