Warlord Games - Imperial Roman Army

Well, I ordered an Imperial Roman Army for £45.00 from Maelstrom Games last week. They had a nice sale due to their 10 year anniversary so I took advantage of it and bulked up my Roman collection!

The contents are listed but I hadn't seen a review or even an outline of how it's packaged and pictures of the sprues anywhere so here is a quick list and pictures of what comes in this deal. I apologize for the poor pictures but I'm still learning. You can find detailed pictures of each sprue on the Warlord Games Web Site.

First, you get a nice big box. A box of Romans. Boxes of Romans are cool. The art work is really well done. One thing I really enjoy about Warlord Games products, especially their box sets are how they make me feel like I did when I was a kid. Way back in the day I used to talk my mother into buying me boxes of Airfix toy soldiers, usually the 1/32 scale. It was always so much fun looking at the art on the boxes and then getting them home, opening the boxes and removing them from their sprues.

Here is the Praetorian sprue:

It has 20 miniatures in two sprues. The command sprue has the musician and standard bearer who carries the supplied vexillum plus there is the Centurion who is a bit different than the "regular" Centurion in that he's wearing his cloak around his body.

You have the option to attach their plumes if you so desire. I suspect that it's only right and proper for them to go into battle dresse

d as best they can but it's nice to have the option of not putting the plumes on.

The Auxilia

They're quite animated.

Twenty four models are supplied. Surpris

ingly no command!

Now for 60 regular Romans. Almost a century of them!

The Survivors, the Veterans. Little Scipio put together a couple he liked them s

o much too! These are the best miniatures in the box in my opinion. I love the campaign look and how they appear to not have had an opportunity to fix up their equipment. I'll stop here and summarize with; If you want to start an Early Imperial Roman army in 28mm, this is a great box set to start with.

Warlord Games Bolt Action Universal Carriers Mark II

I purchased a couple of Universal Carriers Mark II from Warlord Games last week. I had a special request that they be shipped to me for my son (Kyle is 11 years old) to paint up before our game at Fall-In! on Saturday.

Warlord Games delivered!

Even better was the product. They sent two great looking carriers and crew. So here are the pictures of the carriers and the crew before being painted.

The nice thing about the carriers are how 'clean' they are. I couldn't find any pit marks on either model. The edges and sharp parts were straight and clean up was minimal. There was some resin in the tracks but that's expected and was easy to clean up.

This top down view shows some of the interior with crew. Kyle punched out the front opening for the hull machine

gunner and the gunner with machine gun fit in very easy.

I'm no expert on Universal Carriers but these appear to be well sized to match with the driver and crew. It seems to have all the right pieces and form.

More of these are in my future!

This front shot shows the second carrier and the crew added to it. Note that I had only

purchased one set of crew thinking of splitting them between the carriers. I regret that decision now and will be buying more crew.

Notice that the head on the driver is wearing a baret. This is because Kyle is using them for his Red Devils. The driver body is a resin part of the carrier and you can put on different heads. Warlord Games shipped us the Red Devil head upon request.

This carrier doesn't have a hull machine gunner but Kyle put in a machine gun!

Kyle and I are very happy with these models. They put a smile on our face pulling them out of the box and unwrapping them. The grade on these is A+.

Here is a picture of the back end of the carriers. Driving away as this review ends...

Warlord Games Bolt Action British Paras

It's been a long time since the last post on this blog, hasn't it?


I've been quite busy with work, family and painting when I have the chance. I thought I would share an experience today as my son decided he wants some 28mm WWII British Paratroopers. Since he has done very well in school, I thought I would treat him with a few.

Kyle likes "larger" 28mm sizes so we looked online at:
Artizan Miniatures
Bolt Action (Warlord Games)
Renegade Miniatures

All of them looked good, but after closely reviewing them, Kyle preferred the Bolt Action range. I think it helped that almost all of the pictures were of painted miniatures. It appears they were painted by Paul Sawyer too, who is one of the owners of Warlord Games. Very nice paint work too I look forward to Mr. Sawyer posting more pictures of his work.

Also, I recently purchased and started playing the new Flames of War: Market Garden campaign and board game. So far it's been a lot of fun to play. I'll follow up with another post reviewing this game.