When you play Warhammer you pretty much have to use Games Workshop figures. With a game like this, you can use any miniatures you like so long as they look the part. There is a pretty wide range of companies that make suitable miniatures but hopefully the links below will provide you with plenty of options to get started. They are all available to order from our fine local gaming store, The Gamers Guild. just phone or visit the shop.
The most economical option is probably to get one of the multi part plastic kits. They're comparable to GW kits but a great deal cheaper. Most of the boxes contain 30 to 40 miniatures for about £20 so sharing a box with a friend is entirely possible. If you like metal minis you have yet more options to choose from.
- There are no less than six boxes of plastic Greeks to choose from as well as a choice of metal figures.
- Gallic Celts and British Celts including chieftains and druids.
- Assyrians and Babylonians could be interesting for a Persian or Egyptian warband. They're all metal so they're a bit more expensive than some of the other options though.
Wargames Factory's boxes cost $20 which is £16.50 at UK retail and all of their miniatures are multipart plastics.
- Greeks and Persians Since the presentation of the Persian miniatures really doesn't do them any favours you might want to have a look at these rather beautifully painted examples here.
- Amazons Warrior women with a range of weapon options.
- Celts including plastic cavalry and chariots.
- Numidians These are wonderfully versatile models that could be made into light infantry from Greece, Egypt or Persia. There are some nicely painted examples of them in a review here.
Mantic Games make some rather nice undead. Their Zombies and Ghouls could easily belong in an Persian or Egyptian warband. The Undead Mummies which are about to be released would be great for an Egyptian warband. A lot of their other fantasy figures are too medieval for this campaign but the Trolls are crying out for conversion into something!
Games Workshop can't be ignored entirely because the Tomb Kings are the obvious choice for an Egyptian warband. The Skeleton Warriors are actually okay in terms of value for money too at £20 for 16 figures. Not a bargain but not terrible either. Some other things from GW, like minotaurs, could be used too.
Harpies Five for £15 is not a bad deal if you want some evil scary flying things!
Minotaurs £20 each, nice detailed sculpts.
Satyrs from Fanticide are another nice but badly presented range of miniatures. Happily there are some well painted examples here.
The 28mm historical personalities are nice character figures for £2.50 each and include Ramases II in case you wanted to find that elusive Pharaoh miniature. The rest of their figures are in small scales unfortunately.
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A good starting list!
ReplyDeleteBlack Tree Designs http://www.blacktreedesign.com/home.html) appears to have recovered from its blight of bad customer service from a few years ago (I have placed 2 orders in the last couple of months, both have arrived within a week or so of placing them, with everything complete and as expected). The have a 'sales'/Special offer page which is updated weekly, and often has discounts of between 25-50%, bringing the figures down to 0.68-1.14 GBP each. They've a large range of Egyptians, Celts, Picts, Germans, Greeks, Assyrians, Trojans... well, you get the idea. They also have a fantasy range which, whilst tending to be more expensive than the historicals, still has similar special offers...
I should probably also recommend Wargames Foundry (http://www.wargamesfoundry.com/), as whilst not the cheapest (12 GBP for 6 figures) they have a very wide selection of ancients, and quite a few packs of Greek Myth types (which might only be sold through their eBay store now?) Generally their ranges (especially the older ancients ranges, as opposed to the more recent 'World of the Greeks' range) are slightly thinner then BTD, but both should work with Warlord, if not with each other...
Gripping Beast, Aventine and A&A minatires also do assorted ancients, although mainly from a Roman perspective...
Hello Xander and thank you for your comments! BTD, Foundry and Gripping Beast do indeed make nice figures. I don't really know Aventine or A&A so I'll have to look into them. This list was limited to things that could be ordered through our FLGS because that's where we're playing. One day I'll have to make a bigger list of minis that are good for mythic gaming.:)
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