[Victrix] Nouveautés

C'est dans la boutique :

We are really pleased to announce the release of the 28mm hard plastic Numidian cavalry. This is a 12 miniature set packed with pose options and fantastic detail.




https://www.victrixlimited.com/products/numidian-cavalry…



The Numidians were from North Africa, around modern day Tunisia and Morocco. They were superb light cavalry and supplied large quantities of horsemen to their close neighbours the Carthaginians.



Numidian cavalry excelled in skirmishing, hit and run tactics. They would shower their enemy with javelin fire and run away to avoid contact and then wheel around again to pelt the enemy with yet more missiles. They were often used as scouts and in pitched battles would outflank the enemy and wait in ambush.



They fought brilliantly for Hannibal during the second Punic wars, being major factors in his defeats of the Romans at the Trebia, Lake Trasimene and Cannae and they were also responsible for beating the Romans in Spain at the battles of Castulo and Ilorici under their charismatic and brilliant chieftan Masinissa.



At the final Roman battle against Hannibal at Zama, some Numidians under Masanissa changed sides and fought for the Romans defeating their fellow Numidians under the leadership of the aged King Syphax. The Numidians helped swing the tide of battle to the Romans favour.



Numidian cavalry fought as auxiliaries for Rome for many hundreds of years, they fought for Caesar and can be seen in evidence on Trajans column looking very much the same as they did during the punic wars.



Our Numidian infantry will be going to tooling soon. These will be light skirmishers with the option of making them close order infantry with the addition of oval shields and helmets. With plans for African Elephants for the Carthaginians you will be able to field a Numidian force totally in plastic quite soon.



With the addition of the Spanish cavalry in a few weeks you will be able to muster full Spanish and Carthaginian armies in plastic.

Rien que pour les yeux :

Lots of news this week and here is the latest.





We have just received the render of the Early Imperial Roman Centurion along with renders of the resized scutum. With the Centurion now completed there is just the musician to finish sculpting and this set will move onto the tooling.



This means we will shortly commence sculpting Macedonian/Hellenistic Cavalry and Carthaginian War Elephants.



I have been told that the Ancient Spanish Cavalry are tooling rapidly and we may see a release date mid to late August. Once this set is complete we start tooling the Numidian Infantry.

 

C'est du lourd la vache oO




 




Les visages sont prometteurs




 




"Give me your war face!"

Du FB :

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Final figure option that will be on the command crew.




Macedonian/Greek cavalry sculpting has now started and this should be a relatively quick project as we already have many of the figure components in digital form from previous Greek sets.




The brief for the war Elephant is ready for the sculptor. At present the thoughts are to provide options for 2 differently posed elephants and to provide a choice of crew for Carthaginians, Romans and Numidians.




Once these are complete we will move on to the Early Imperial Roman Auxiliaries set.

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Currently on holiday in Normandy so posts will be less frequent, however, today I have the opportunity to share images of the Optiones choices you will get in the Early Imperial Roman sets.

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Today I received renders of the Ancient Greek Cavalry horses. Bodies, heads, arms, weapons etc are now underway and will be posted once complete.

Des news !




 




On commence avec la cavalerie ibérique :








 




Les cavaliers grecs :












 




Et le gros néléphant :

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Quelques photos de la cavalerie numides :






De la cavalerie grec :







Et les illustrations des futurs boites :







 

Des news pour les gaulois, des FDP offert et du romain :

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The Gauls are well underway as can be seen from the 2 images. However, before the cascade of comments asking about armour, fanatics, helmets etc let me iterate the following:



Unarmoured infantry now complete.

Command figures now being sculpted.

Helmeted heads now being sculpted.
Armoured warriors planned.

Naked fanatics planned.

Cavalry planned.



Roman tooling is well underway but will not be complete until next month, please be patient.

 

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As already announced we are currently tooling the Greek Heavy Cavalry.





However, the design team are currently working on Greek Light Cavalry and here is a montage of the first Greek Light cavalry figure.



It shows a few head and arm options.



The frame will contain 4 different rider bodies, different bare and helmeted head options. Javelin and sword arms plus shield options so customers can make Tarantines.



Once this set is complete we will move on with Gallic cavalry.

Quelques visuels des nouveaux romains :







 

Juste pour dire que les romain en armure de plaque (early) sont sorti depuis quelques temps et franchement pour les avoir sous la main en ce moment même c'est du tres beau/propre, bien plus convainquant que du Warlord pour le coup (moins trapus/petit)




J'attend maintenant qu'il sorte la cavalerie de la même période [img]<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/default_wub.png[/img]







 

En effet ils sont bien beaux. Entre ça et la sortie de Gangs of Rome, il y a de quoi faire de belles tables