Warlord Games Napoleonics

 

 

cavalry and cannons individual castings well detailed for single-piece models

 I am left to wonder if the infantry come in blocks like the ACW stuff

       I just picked up the latest issue of Wargames Illustrated and affixed to the front was a sprue of Warlord's latest offering; plastic Napoleonics. To my delight and surprise they appeared to be 15mm figures! So I got home and dug out a few of my 15mm figures for a quick size comparison and my suspicions were confirmed, they match nicely with the Minifig 15mm figures in my collection. Mind you, they are probably a tad small by "modern" standards where it is easy to find figures marketed as "15mm" that tower nearly 20mm tall, but they would be an easy mix with my existing armies.

 

quite sturdy and look a simple thing to paint

the horses seem very well-fed

 

 

 

a tad larger than my 30 year-old Prussian general from Minifigs

 

and here they are next to Spanish Dragoon from the same era

 

       It looks like Warlord listened to the feedback from the ACW set and decided to cast these in 15mm (or maybe that was the plan all along). These boxed sets will provide a inexpensive "right out of the box" way to get started in Napoleonic wargaming. With luck they will be popular enough to warrant additional armies (Prussians at least!)