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Post by mesper on Apr 11, 2014 16:27:01 GMT -9
Barbarians IPERMES Fantasy SeriesAvailable at WargameVault and RPGnowBarbarians are a fiercely proud, brave and cruel warriors armed for melee, carrying swords, maces, battle hammers, axes and spears. Some carrying round or sharp-edged shields, some prefers dual wielding. These courageous tribal warriors wore iron or bronze helmets but no mailcoats, tunics or sleeved shirts just long wool or linen trousers, wolf or bear pelts and cloaks in the winter. Enraged berserkers, most dangerous among barbarians, fought almost naked as " neither fire nor iron had effect upon them". This set contains high quality art two sided minis including warchiefs, berserkers, totem bearers, dual-wielding swordmasters and scouts in different poses, with various weapons, accessories and colour versions. The mixture of ready-to-print minis lets you field anything from individual heroes to entire tribal units! A total of 36 ready-for-battle barbarians warrior figurines can be printed out from the first 4 pages of minis. You can also use optional accessories from page 5 - various shape and colour A and B side shields to enhance the pre-prepared minis for extra variety in your armies! The final page to print out includes three styles of universal wide base (grass, sand and stone) - to cut to size and fit to your completed minis. Previews(selected minis included) Hope you will enjoy adding Barbarians to your game worlds! Mesper
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Post by cowboyleland on Apr 11, 2014 17:46:03 GMT -9
They look great!
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Post by WackyAnne on Apr 11, 2014 17:49:46 GMT -9
They do look great! But... where are all the kick-ass barbarian women hiding?
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Post by dungeonmistress on Apr 11, 2014 20:18:28 GMT -9
They do look great, but I agree with WackyAnne, barbarian women fought alongside and just a fiercely if not more so then their men! Don't make me invoke Gloria Steinem! LOL!
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Post by madarchitect on Apr 12, 2014 2:01:52 GMT -9
They do look great! But... where are all the kick-ass barbarian women hiding? They are there! You just need to shave off their beards But seriously. Maybe a small set of barbarian women would be in order? However following this line of houte-couture you would be probably banned from advertising them on CW considering nudity standards Ok. Now seriously-seriously. Great looking set mesper.
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Post by wyvern on Apr 12, 2014 7:28:28 GMT -9
I agree; we're definitely needing some barbarian women to go with this set! Also, I'm intrigued by how some of the barbarian male sample figures here could very easily be changed to cave men, simply by replacing or removing all the metal items with hides and stone-bladed weapons; cave women too, naturally! For anyone thrown into a panic at the thought of naked barbarian women, I've been hunting around the late centuries BC Greek art lately, and it's been fascinating there to find the Amazons (women tribal warriors, who, being non-Greeks, could be considered "barbarians") almost always feature as fully to heavily clothed, usually in trousers and tunic, plus helmets, shields and weaponry, while the Greek men fighting them are most often naked, except for a helmet, shield and sword or spear! There's a complete turnaround to modern cast minis for you, though I can see the prospect of naked men warriors as paper minis throwing some into a proper "rinse and spin" paroxysm. But any amount of gratuitous violence and gore is fine, eh? O tempora, o mores
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Post by WackyAnne on Apr 12, 2014 13:46:27 GMT -9
Didn't the Amazons slice off one breast, the better to swing their swords?
I don't mind barely clad barbarian women, as long as they are dressed to emphasize strength rather than sexuality.
LOL, autocorrect tried to input "bavarian women" over "barbarian women".
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Post by cowboyleland on Apr 12, 2014 18:32:47 GMT -9
I always heard that Amazon's cut off one breast to make it easier to draw a bow. One of the least plausible aspects of the myth.
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Post by mesper on Apr 12, 2014 23:33:20 GMT -9
Didn't the Amazons slice off one breast, the better to swing their swords? I don't mind barely clad barbarian women, as long as they are dressed to emphasize strength rather than sexuality. OK, as you wish... But under some conditions: -err... no, no, no - no slicing - so just to stay on safe side there will be no She-swordsman... -can she emphasize rather agility than strength?
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Post by wyvern on Apr 13, 2014 2:42:26 GMT -9
There's a Classical Greek etymology that derived "Amazon" from "a - mazon" = "without - breast", but this is not considered plausible, given that ancient Greek art never shows any single-breasted Amazons. There's a quote on the Amazons Wikipedia page (which has some good info and images), but by a Latin author, Justinus, from his "Historiae Phillippicae ex Trogo Pompeio", Book 2.4 (in translation only here!): "They exercised the virgins on weapon-wielding, horse-riding and hunting, and burned the right breasts of the children, so that arrow-throwing would not be impeded; and for such reason, they were called Amazons." There's been a suspicion more modernly that this etymology persevered in preference to others because it devalued the role of women warriors.
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Post by cowboyleland on Apr 13, 2014 20:38:51 GMT -9
And it makes no sense. Look at two breasted athletes: archers? Check. Javelin throwers? Check. Fencers? Check
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Post by dungeonmistress on Apr 16, 2014 17:53:03 GMT -9
Being a woman and a former archer, I can say I have never had any problem with things getting in my way. Thank you, mesper for not cutting anything off! With that proviso, I am fully in favor of women Barbarians.
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