Victrix: Carthaginian sculpting completed and all models are now at the tooling stage. Early 2015 release expected. We are really please to be able to reveal all the figures for our forthcoming Carthaginian boxed sets. Everything is now complete and is now being tooled. The main frame and command frame are well under way but they won't be ready for Christmas we have been informed. As early as we can in the New Year is all we can say at present but we will give you a more definite timeline in the beginning of 2015.
The first set is Warriors of Carthage'. This will be a 62 figure set comprising of 21 Veterans in mail. 21 Libyan spearmen in Lino-thorax armour. 14 Libyan javelin men plus 6 command figures of officers, standard bearers and musicians. The second set is 'Citizens of Carthage. This is a small 24 figure set giving you 21 Citizens plus officer, standard bearer and musician. The Carthaginian Citizen levy were called out in dire emergency when the homeland was being invaded. They fought in the second line with the Libyan Spearmen at Zama and put up a stiff fight.
Citizens of the Carthaginian cities in Spain were also called out on occasion. The figures are portrayed un-armoured but with a choice of long scutum or Thureos. There is no reason why a few armoured figures could not be mixed in to add more variety. These figures would also work very well as earlier Citizens fighting the Greeks of Syracuse, Carthaginian Marines and also as Phoenicians who fought Alexander the Great. Simply replace their shields with smaller round buckler styles.
We think these two sets will be fantastic! offering you a huge range of figures to fight the first and second Punic wars. We will show some updates of the Carthaginian allies we are working on in the New Year so keep checking the website!
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