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I am pleased to announce that today we have released our set of Ancient Iberian Unarmoured Warriors. In addition we have also released the Balearic slingers.

To go with the unarmoured warriors we also have 4 sets of shield transfers.

The Armoured Iberian Warriors will probably be released in 3-4 weeks as we make a few enhancements to the tool.

Full details can be found at www.victrixlimited.com

This is a quick post having just arrived hot foot from London where I had a very positive meeting with the tooling company. The future is looking very up beat with lots of new products planned.

Immediate news is that the unarmoured and armoured Samnites will be released in about 3 weeks. I am also confident that at least 1, possibly 2 of the 3 Macedonian sets will be ready for Salute.

The Armoured Iberians should be released sometime in the next 5-10 days.

After that will be the 3rd Macedonian set (Hypaspists) with the Numidian cavalry following in quick succession.

Then will come the Ancient Spanish cavalry and these can be seen in the attached images.

We will shortly commence work on 2 more ancient mounted sets and a major series of sets that cover one of the most powerful armies from the ancient world. More news to follow.

There will be quite a bit of news over the next 24 - 48 hours. First of all the Samnite artwork arrived to day do we will now sort out the packaging. For all those painters and gamers who like bright vibrant armies the Samnites will appeal. There will be 2 sets, armoured and unarmoured with 4 figures per sprue and 6 sprues in the set. All the parts for command figures are included in the frame. A total of 24 figures per set.

At some stage over the weekend I will be showing the completed digital models of the Iberian cavalry. In keeping with the Iberian theme I have also posted a few photograhs of the Armoured Iberian warriors.

These fought for years against the Republican Romans and also fought as mercenaries for the Carthaginians so all in all very useful troops.

Responses to the last post raised a few questions about various subjects and I will try and deal with these in this thread

But before I do this I want to share with everyone images of the finished Ancient Iberian Cavalry. The release date is uncertain at present but I would expect sometime over the summer. The set will be made up of 3 horses and 3 riders but with lots of head, crest, and arm options so there will be plenty of scope for ensuring every figure and horse looks unique. We will probably sell it in sets of 12 figures.

There are many posts about what people would like us to produce and in an ideal world we would produce everything requested and give the sets away free of charge. However, we live in the real world and therefore time and commercial reality will dictate what we produce and how quickly it can be done. Nevertheless, I will confirm the following:

1. We have not abandoned Napoleonics and I have already discussed with the Head of Design both mounted and foot sets to be worked on in the autumn. More news later.

2. I am hoping to announce a new range of Ancients sometime in the next 2-3 weeks. This new series of sets are already being worked on but I want to wait for an image of the first render before making an announcement. I noted that there has been much speculation on TMP with some potential good ideas and some not so good.

3. WWI will remain on hold for the foreseable future due to technical reasons.

4. Reworking our non digital sets is possible but not commercially sensible so I am afraid Napoleonic Dutch Sappers will not happen.

5. Taking a digital model and turning it into something that can be moulded in metal is not practical so I am afraid Campanian cavalry is also a non starter.

6. Someone asked why I had not shown the illustration of the Iberian Cavalry artwork. We have only just finished the digital sculpting and these "renders" will be used as the basis for the artwork. Be patient and all in good time.

Salute 2016 Deals

Due to the varying price of our plastic products it is difficult to run multi box deals. However, instead we will run a sliding percentage discount depending on the number of plastic sets you wish to purchase. This applies to all plastic products be it figure sets, aircraft, bases or movement trays.

1 box 0% discount
2-3 boxes 10% discount
4-6 boxes 20% discount
6-10 boxes 25% discount
10+ boxes 30% discount

Unfortunately we are unable to offer discounts on the LittleBigMenStudios shield transfers.

The Samnites were a tribal group of the Oscan peoples that occupied Central and Southern Italy. They were fierce warriors and in their many wars with Rome they earned a high military reputation.

Samnites fought in loose formations armed with javelins and sword, preferably in hilly or wooded terrain. They were formidable fighters in close combat.

These fantastic and highly detailed miniatures are ideal as enemies of Republican Rome or fighting as allies and mercenaries in a Carthaginian army. They can also be used as earlier Italian peoples such as Lucani, Bruttii or Campani.

Both sets of 24 figures will be on release at Salute 2016 at £17.95 each.

The New ancient range we are starting at Victrix will be Early Imperial Romans. This is a period we have wanted to work on since we started Victrix in 2008 so we are very excited about this and look forward to showing more updates over the coming months.

We have a render of one of the figures so far. Most of the work up this point has been sorting the equipment such as helmets, shields, armour, weapons etc... Now that is pretty much finalised (a couple of minor tweaks) then the poses for other figures will come thick and fast over the coming weeks.

The plan is to do a set of Roman Legionaries in attacking active poses and a set in marching/advancing poses for those who like their Romans active and those who like a more linear look.

There will be pilum and sword arm options, 2 helmet variants plus segmented arm armour variants and some leg options with greaves. Some separate crests and oval shields are being looked at to make Praetorians. We will see if we can fit these on the frame or whether it has to be an extra set?
We also want to put a few nice bits in there such as arms holding torches and severed heads, this adds a nice touch for those doing skirmish games and as you know we always like to give the customer extras and not just the bare minimum.

There will be full plastic command frames and a mounted General figure will be produced.

Other sets in the planning are Auxiliary infantry attacking and advancing, archers, cavalry and Scorpions (Possibly with an ox cart to mount it on)

Steve form LBMS will be producing a large range of shield transfers for these figures.

Don’t worry about the Punic wars we are still producing sets for this as well and will hop back and forth between the periods. The great thing is the Numidian cavalry and the already released Balearic slingers can be used in the Early Imperial Roman army.

We will also be returning to Napoleonics at some stage later this year.

Hopefully we will have a few more renders by Salute in a couple of weeks.