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Some new releases from Mierce. These are to support their Darklands Dark Age fantasy skirmish game due out later this year:
All these are funded from their recent kickstarter. Most of the stuff here has already been sent to backers and are now being put out to general release. Still to be released include quite a few infantry and monstrous infantry pieces such as a Werewolf unit as well as the huge beasts currently being worked on including; a huge Hydra, a Dragon, a Raven-giant, the Gorgonares (Snake men), a Lískarchon (Man-Basilisk) and an Ice-golem.
Unless you've been on the moon since January, you'll know that our fantastic Darklands: A World of War Kickstarter project is very successful in that there are now many happy backers that have received much of their pledges and we've also produced many new miniatures to tempt dark age fantasy fans into reaching for their wallets - in fact, when all the new miniatures are eventually released, we'll have doubled the size of the Darklands range!
The first eleven of those new miniatures were released last month, of course, but there's still plenty to get out there to the masses and thus it's time to release eleven more - including the first Norse and Angelcynn miniatures for a good long while and more Brythoniaid, Fomoraic and Ysians for your Darklands hosts! These particular releases will be officially available on the 3rd of August, but feel free to pre-order to your heart's content.
Beowa, Once-Thegn of Beornica
Beowa, Once-Thegn of Beornica [BAY-oh-wa, once-thane of BAY-or-ni-ka) is everyone's favourite bear-man in human form, a Sell-Sword who will work for most other kindreds; for he was kicked out of his homeland by the Christians, who are thus the object of his vengeful thoughts. They'd better lock all their doors and batten down their hatches! With a concept superbly drawn by Des Hanley and an equally superb sculpt by Benoît Cosse, Beowa is a perfect example of an idea taken by artists and transformed into an amazing miniature.
Beowa, Once-Thegn of Beornica in Bear Form
A superb concept by Des Hanley was sculpted by Stéphane Simon, who stepped in faithfully when Benoît Cosse was indisposed, but the result is just as good as Benoît's work of course! Beowa can transform into bear form at will, but can also do so involuntarily if he gets angry enough. So, our advice would be not to get him angry...
Glaun, Tarwdraig of Cynfelyn
He's a big, bulky bull-dragon type with a bad temper and some really spiky bits - here's Glaun, Tarwdraig of Cynfelyn, with concept drawn by Stefan Kopinski and sculpt by Roberto Chaudon! Now, the pronunciation of our miniatures' names can be problematic sometimes, for we do tend to use old, obscure names from the dark ages, but the Brythoniaid releases can be especially difficult for the non-Welsh speaker to say. Whilst we'll provide pronunciation guides when the various warrior profiles are available, let's have a go at Glaun here and now, eh? Okay. Here we go. Glaun should be pronounced 'Gleyen' in one syllable, with 'eye' as in, er, 'eye'; Tarwdraig is 'Ta-ROO-drayg' and Cynfelyn is 'Kun-VE-lun'. Got that? Hope so...
(One more thing before the next release, if you're Welsh: in Glaun's name, Cynfelyn isn't soft-mutated to Gynfelyn as 'Tarwdraig of Cynfelyn' is actually an English sentence using two Welsh words and one English word ('of'). Hopefully that wasn't too patronising, either, and yes, this author is Saesneg.)
Geraint Nerthol, Teyrn of Cedweli
More Welsh for you to pronounce! Let's talk about the miniature first. Geraint Nerthol (which means 'Mighty Geraint') is the first human for the Brythoniaid kindred, and he's a minor king from the south who lends his blade and his warriors to Gwynedd for their fight. With a superb concept by Stefan Kopinski and a great sculpt by Benoît Cosse, Geraint will happily lead your Dyndraig into battle!
Oh yes, pronunciation. Geraint Nerthol (GE-reyent NER-thol), Teyrn (Tairn as in cairn) of Cedweli (Ked-WEL-ly as in welly).
Rocqaan, Srónax Warrior
Here at Mierce Towers we love our rhino-men, so it's great to release some more, finally! Here's Rocqaan (ROCK-an), Rocky to his mates, sculpted by the ever-amazing Allan Carrasco and from a concept drawn by Georges Clarenko.
Luqkaan, Srónax Warrior
...and that's the unit: Luqkaan (LOOK-an) makes a grand total of five Srónax to be available, and thus enough for a full-size Srónax unit (funnily enough). Lucky, as he is known, looks particularly thick but we're quite sure he can lift heavy things, including that bloody great club.
Unnolg, Troll Warrior
Now this guy is an absolute beauty. Again scupted by Allan Carrasco (that's three of his sculpts released this month), Unnolg is the first of three Troll Warriors we have in store for you all - and which will thus make a unit of five with Vörtun and Gjöll. With concepts by Stefan Kopinski, these guys are going to look superb on the battlefield - and they really hit hard, too...
Mawdred of Carn Dhu, An-Kern-Drune
The Ysians are fleshed out - at least in terms of miniatures - more than most of the other kindreds, and we're adding four more this month and there's more next month too. Joining Carrowek and his mates is Mawdred of Carn Dhu, basically a battle standard-bearer, sculpted brilliantly by Stéphane Simon from a crazy piece of art by Danny Cruz. Mawdred is very, very cool!
Talan of Carn Maen, Ax-Drune
The fourth member of the Ax-Drune unit, sculpted by Juan Navarro Pérez from a concept by Danny Cruz, Talan of Carn Maen is a cracking miniature with a broken-backed axe and a bad temper to boot. Don't meet him in a dark alley, folks!
Kenan of Carn Dinas, Bow-Drune
There's four Bow-Drunes to make up the unit and Kenan - concept by Danny Cruz and sculpt by James van Schaik - is a cracking miniature. All of the bow-drunes have lots of accoutrements and accessories to catch your eye, and we especially love the horn-bows!
Judoc of Carn Lann, Goad-Drune
Judoc is the second of three Goad-Drunes, important little beggars that help Ysian generals control those nasty beasts of theirs!
We're in Scale!
The size of our miniatures is always a talking point so we thought we'd better sort out a scale chart to show just how big (or small) they are, compared against Meloda - a 30mm human-sized miniature - and Krull, who is... well, big!
As we stated above, all of the eleven miniatures unveiled here will be officially released on the 3rd of August 2013.
Early next month we'll be unveiling September's releases, which will include mucho Norse and Angelcynn as well as some Brythoniaid, Fomoraic and Ysians (as usual). Watch this space!
All these are funded from their recent kickstarter. Most of the stuff here has already been sent to backers and are now being put out to general release. Still to be released include quite a few infantry and monstrous infantry pieces such as a Werewolf unit as well as the huge beasts currently being worked on including; a huge Hydra, a Dragon, a Raven-giant, the Gorgonares (Snake men), a Lískarchon (Man-Basilisk) and an Ice-golem.
