War & Empire range of 15mm Ancients ready to launch

You may have noticed that Westwind/Forged in Battle have been quiet for a while…

Thanks to a very successful Kickstarter campaign last year (359 backers, £53,687 pledged), Andy, Wendy and the team at Westwind have been busy sculpting a brand new range of 15mm Ancients figures for their War & Empire range.

This is a large range of figures, which includes:

• Germans
• Parthians
• Armenians
• Arabs
• Later Republican Romans
• Spartacus Gladiators
• Early Persians
• Early Greeks
• Sarmatians
• Skythians
• Thracians
• Carthaginians
• Celts
• Numidians
• Etruscans
• Campanians
• Oscans
• Republican Romans
• Spanish
• Successors
• Seleucids
• Later Persians
• Later Greeks
• Macedonians
• Indians

A total (currently) of 167 individual packs. There is also a accompanying range of buildings and accessories, including villagers and siege engines.

As well as individual packs, there are a total of 29 Starter Armies available, and 6 smaller Starter Sets.

This is very much a ‘big bang’ release – everything you will need to start ancient gaming in any of several periods. Whilst War & Empire are also producing their own rules, these figures will also be ideal for rules such as ‘To The Strongest’ and ‘Sword & Spear’ which have both been recently featured on the podcast.

They are currently up for pre-order on the Forged in Battle website, with a release date of May 5th. However, they should be available to purchase at Salute this coming Saturday.

We are hoping to speak to Andy & Wendy Cooper about this new range on the podcast very soon.

In the mean time, they are well worth a look. Here are some examples: