LEU03 Princess Julianna marches into eternity....

The last sets of the third limited edition unit code from Alternative Armies is now sold out.  Hence the Princess Julianna marches into eternity only to be seen now second hand or in our 'swop drawer' if we ever get any back to us for exchange.  The final sets went out of stock overnight and my thanks to those who snapped them up.

You can see the sold out page HERE on our website.  It will remain there for reference in the future. It joings the also sold out LEU01 Bella Manicotti and LEU02 Moldsk Guard units.  Each of these units has a story behind them but as I have publically before the story behind the Princess Julianna is the most touching and real to me.

We may create another limited unit code and if you have ideas as to what it might be then tell me by email or in the comments.  You never know...we might just do it.

Thanks for Reading.

GBS

ORB Orc Rock Band – Spinal Crack

“The smell of smoke on the rancid air.  The hum of power and the flash of lightening.  Screams and chants.  Be this battle and the sound of slaughter?  No its Spinal Crack and their latest album at full volume.  An Orc Rock band from the era before music shattered and collapsed into floppy hair and corporate sound bites.  These hard rockers will give you bites for real!  A 25mm scale collectors set brought back to life by Alternative Armies.”

Not everything a wargamer wants has to do with putting troops onto the field.  Sometimes something a little different, a bit special makes an appeal to a wargamers nature and says 'I speak to your soul' and the Orc Rock Band is just such a thing.  Originally released by Tabletop Games in the early 1980's and now restored to glory.  Excellent characters or a superb diorama or just for fun.  You can purchase every part of the ORB set as single miniatures or small collections as well at the resin stage too.  Or get the whole band and the stage with a small discount or even three sets with another 10% off if you are looking for something to impress with.  White Metal except for the Stage which is cast in Resin.  Go HERE.

Here is an outline of the parts of ORB Orc Rock Band:

ORB0 Rock Band – Complete with Stage

(Contains all the parts as per the image shown including the stage)

ORB1A Orc Drummer on Seat (1 Miniature) 

ORB1B Centre Drum Set (1 Piece) 

ORB1C Side Drum and Cymbal Set (2 pieces)

ORB2 Female Singer (1 Miniature)

ORB3 Female Backing Singer (1 Adult themed Miniature)

ORB4 Orc Bass Guitarist (1 Miniature) 

ORB5 Orc Lead Guitarist (1 Miniature) 

ORB7A Mike Stand (1 Piece) 

ORB7B Speaker (1 Piece)

ORB7C Amp Deck (1 Piece) 

ORB6 The Stage (1 Piece with Wood Planking Effect)

This set is supplied unpainted and unassembled.  Images of every part are on the web page (blogger could not handle all the pictures..sorry!).

Thanks for Reading.

GBS

Alternative Armies is now on Facebook!

 

As of the start of this week Alternative Armies is on Facebook with its own page. This is an expansion of our website and blog presence and its a place where I will be putting all the news, releases, offers, specials, articles, fiction and more. Indeed if you are on Facebook you can comment and show us your miniatures and games using our thousands of codes. 

 

So have a look by clicking on the link and if we are of interest please hit the 'like' button. I might even run some competitions once its all purring away nicely. Go HERE. 

 

Thanks for Reading.

 

GBS

Flintloque Lite now free to download in Italian language

Thanks to the efforts on the Chimerae group in Italy and its group of Flintloque wargaming fans we now have an Italian language version of the free to download Lite Rules.  These are complete with all needed text and tables and so on.  Its a full version.  These guys have done a great job and to celebrate the link to download the file is below and also the same announcement in my awful attempt at writing in Italian.

Grazie agli sforzi sul gruppo chimere in Italia e il suo gruppo di Flintloque appassionati di wargame ora abbiamo una versione in lingua italiana dei liberi per scaricare Regole Lite. Queste sono completi di testo e tabelle tutto necessario e così via. La sua una versione completa. Questi ragazzi hanno fatto un ottimo lavoro e per celebrare il link per scaricare il file è al di sotto e anche lo stesso annuncio nel mio tentativo terribile a scrivere in italiano.

Click on this link to download the PDF direct from our dropbox folder:  DOWNLOAD

This file can also be found on the Notable Yahoo Group which is the place to be for all Flintloque chat.

Thanks for Reading or Ciao!

GBS

VNT01 Eternal Guard at Alternative Armies

“We made a mistake when we failed to bury the fallen in deep corpse pits. A mistake that cost us all dear at Black Heart Lake. The army marched past the foul shores of that dead lake expecting to face only the fell lords and their minions. Little did we know that those evil doers had the services of a great Necromancer who had followed us and raised the dead. Corpse pits provide rich fruit and since this fruit had not been buried, only piled with those we had slain it meant that the army of the dead had caught up with us. On two fronts we split and I for my sins survived only by shedding my axe and mail and swimming the slimy waters of the lake. Even now I can hear the screams and the endless creaking and brittle motions of bones ending life. Dead sockets where eyes had once been.”

This code contains five different 25mm/28mm white metal miniatures approx 27mm average height. Great quality, great choice and great value too.  Go HERE.

Poses in this code are as follows:

VNT1-01: Skeleton with Great Sword and Helmet.

VNT1-02: Skeleton with Axe and Shield in armour and cloak.

VNT1-03: Skeleton with Spear and breastplate.

VNT1-04: Skeleton hacking with Sword.

VNT1-05: Skeleton with Sword and Shield.

These miniatures are not supplied with bases and are supplied unpainted. Select your choice from the drop down product menu. Choose from a pack, three packs with a 10% saving applied and single miniatures. Total choice! Assembly is required with some white metal miniatures.

The Alternative Armies classic high fantasy range dates from the period of the early 1990's through to the end of that decade. Designed by leading names in the wargaming industry and highly successful in its day this range has been on hiatus. Alternative Armies, under the name 'Project Darkhelm' is dedicated to re-mastering, re-molding and re-releasing this entire range back onto the market. We will be doing this work at a measured pace and a weekly rate maintaining high quality and excellent pricing. During and beyond this process Project Darkhelm will see the range continue to be expanded in the mediums of white metal and high grade resin using top industry designers in new releases. Every pose in each pack is unique with no duplicates making them perfect for skirmish wargaming, roleplaying and unit building for any battle system.

Thanks for Reading.

GBS

Ferach Elf Line Dragoons the Parts

“Captain Sharke ducked the sabre that sliced through the cold air above his head and before the Elf realised his sword stroke had failed to decapitate the half-orc Sharke swung his own heavy blade and it smashed into the leg of the rider as he passed.  Blood fountained as the ruined leg drooped away from its owning body.  Sharke ignored the scream from the Ferach scum as he continued on and instead looked to the rest of his Rifleorcs.  After a day of walking the ridges of the mountains and avoiding the valleys where the Armoricans rode free they had been forced to cross an open plain to get to the next set of raised stony ground.  It had been a risk, Sharke had known that but they had waited until nearly nightfall and then started at a run across the plain.  It was not far and they had gone in two groups.  When he and the second group were a third of the way across the sparse grass the Elves had sprung upon them at a gallop and now they were fighting for their lives.  But the Dragoons did not have it all their way as bullets from Bakur Rifles spun in the seven grooves of the barrel whip cracked from the hillside where the first group were already pitch up and now lending fire to their fellows aid.  Captain Sharke grimaced and the scars on his face went a livid white.  Some of the Orcs were going to die in this crossing but now a lot more of the pointy eared horse botherers were going to end up worm fodder.”

The standard set of five horses for this new code

Back in the middle of July I put up a posting talking about the modular concept for Ferach Elf Line Dragoons.  If you have not yet had a look at it please read it before this article as it will help it make more sense to you.  Of course if you are a true Flintloque and Slaughterloo fanatic then you will have committed it all to memory by this time and know all about it.  So now I want to show you all a couple of images of what is literally the very first master tins to come out of the brand new master molds and to explain how it will all work for this modular set of white metal miniatures.  Read on.

There are two main focuses in terms of the parts of these modular dragoons.  These are firstly the horses and secondly the riders.  I will look at each in turn starting with the horses.

We wanted to create a set of pieces very much like the white metal ancestors we had seen from the 1970's for our horses.  Basing the design on the typical Ferach Elf horse which is that used by the 51502 Lanciers Rouge its a close match up and blends in well.  There are several pieces to a horse and they are the left side, the right side, the head and the base.  Three different left sides with two legs and three different right sides with tail combined with two different heads means realistically eighteen combinations of pose for the horses. The 'domino' base with its eight holes mean that all the possible poses will 'plug in' easily into place before being mounted finally on a resin cartouche base which we will also supply for free.

The Eight different micro kits for the Elf Riders

With the horses accounted for its time for the riders and these are a bit more original and unique for Alternative Armies certainly.  There are eight different micro kits of Elf rider.  These are an officer, musician, standard bearer, sergeant and four different troopers. Each is composed of white metal parts including legs, a saddle box, upper body, a head and a selection of weapons or special items.  As you can see from the picture the possibilities for each Elf are large with head position and body orientation along with arm selection and pose being your choice.  Armed with Sword or with Musket.  While the special items make your Eagle Bearer and Musician.  At a rough estimate we think that swoping parts about and posing you can get eight riders to about twenty four unique final poses.

So this means that when you combine up the options for the horses and for the Elves riding them you can honestly get around three hundred final cavalry poses or even more if you do a bit of conversions and scratch building yourself.  

This brand new set of miniatures looks like it will be given the following code and title at this time: 51533 Ferach Elf Line Dragoons.  There will be a core Flintloque set of five along with a Slaughterloo unit of ten (with a saving) and also options to purchase single troopers or command poses and also a separate option for the horses too.

Next time we will be a lot nearer to the release of these miniatures and the production molds will be made and ready.  I will be looking at the process of building one of these horses and one of these riders stage by stage.  I will not be doing this myself of course but instead Sam Croes will be your guide and his nimble fingers will show you just what is possible.

If you have any questions or just want to give us a thumbs up then drop me an email or comment here.  I was touched by the emails from the last time telling me that I had made the right choice and that Elf Dragoons were just what was wanted.

Thanks for Reading.

GBS 

The Crimson Bunionette - Flintloque Mini Campaign at OITW

Captured by Ferach forces Bette awaits execution in the prison of a small fishing town, all is not lost however as her true love, Oratio 'Horny' Hornblairer, is just off the coast and is headed to rescue her with some stalwart Royule Albion Navie marines.

Now on Orcs in the Webbe you can find the last scenario of Matthew Hartley's 'A Rhyme for Our Time' Flintloque mini-campaign. Captured by Ferach forces Bette awaits execution in the prison of a small fishing town, all is not lost however as her true love, Oratio 'Horny' Hornblairer, is just off the coast and is headed to rescue her with some stalwart Royule Albion Navie marines in this classic scenario from the Flintloque Archives.

Go HERE on OITW to find this scenario and then seek the others from there.

Excellent work from Mr Hartley.

GBS