New Poll - Next Hard Plastic Ranges

imperial roman legion or auxillaries would be great...

A good post-apocalyptic range including mutants, humans, robots, etc would be awesome.

DARK FUTURE RAAAAAAAAAAAAAARG

Do we really need more WWII........

You can never have enough WW2! Especially since nobody is doing hard plastic 28mm! (but I personally want Marlburians)

Bring on your greatcoats. I'm waiting for greatcoats and power armor. I don't do fantasy or historical. I'm a sci-fi nut.

i am voting for macedonians and persians. i would collect both of those armies if they become available in plastic!

gw makes all the cartoony future stuff and warlord seems to have the ww duce under controll. what we really need are some quality plastic greeks and persians.

Dark Future/Post-Apocalypse

Warlord's WW2 is all metal. They just put it in fancy boxes to try to fool people. Har har har. If Warlrod did the plastic they'd probably have us use the same spruce for British and Germans anyway. Hardy har har. Anybody else cheesed off about the fact that almost every set they make for anceints uses the same gaul plastic spruces?

North African Cav Please

More in the Dark Futures range. Maybe a set for the outbreak of the Zombie Apocalypse. Human survivors, National Guard, SWAT, regular police, and anti-zombie spec-ops.

Yes, more Dark Futures, please.

I just received the Vikings yesterday and I am BLOWN AWAY by the detail. My personal vote is to get into some Horse and Musket period...but whatever you guys do from here on out is going to be FANTASTIC if you just match what you did on the Vikings.

Samurai!

A lot of ranges are already catered for so choose one period where no much figures in 28mm are made; in my opnion FPW

Greatcoats finish them please

The Anonymous guy who says to do ranges that aren't done in 28mm already isn't getting the whole economics of producing plasics, is he? Dude it costs a thirty grand to make one of those molds. You can't make some obscure thing or WF would be out of biz in a week!

More Dark Futures! The zombies need someone to munch on.

I would say the Greatcoats and more Dark Furture types.

I'd love to see some Mongols and Teutonic Knights!

You should concentrate on the Dark Futures range because it has a different slant from all of your other ranges, and it needs more effort put into it if it is ever going to be anything more than a kind of "rag tag" collection of a few boxed sets that are not cohesive. It will also be very popular. There are ALREADY TWO RANGES OF HARD PLASTIC NAPOLEONICS, which are very high quality and very cheap indeed. You can't seriously hope to make money by releasing more napoleonics. Instead, concentrate upon dark ages stuff and do everyhting from the viking period up to the hundred years war. That will attract less competition but at the same time be very popular. If you do napoleonics, you will have to reduce the price of your troops to compete with big companies. Dark Futures will probably be the most popular by far. It will bring in a whole new bunch of gamers if advertised properly, but apart from that.. finish off dark ages?

I don't know...theres a lot of low hanging fruit in Napoleonics...Austrians...Prussians...WF should maybe just put out one and see how it does. The French have to fight somebody accept the British at some point.

Would LOVE some AWI stuff, as no one does that in plastic, and a really varied militia pack with a lot of options would be HUGE... plus, it wouldn't take many packs to give a nice general covering of the period.

I would like to see some WW1 figures or at least be able to buy the dark ages in the UK.

My wish list is that you would start doing ancient and medieval plastics in 15 mm. That would be "wow" news to me. Thanks! - Greg

i would love to see some samurai!!!

Quality SciFi plastics in realistic proportions would be my first choice (the big maker of plastic SciFi models has their gauge stuck on "cartoony". After that, Macedonians and Persians would be awesome!

Crusaders and Muslims!!!!

Crusaders and Muslims!!!!

More Dark Futures, please.

there are soooo many companys that make sci fi miniatures, they are all the same. i say stick to historicals, maybe some king leonidas and the spartan 300 type figs?

WWI would be my favorite (amongst other things but if I'd have to settle for one I'd choose this period). Very popular rules available. No plastics on the market yet. Lots of infantry needed. Cavalry still on the battlefield as well though! Seperate heads could provide early and late war troops in one box. Easy conversions for trench raiders or stormtroopers. British, French and German first, then maybe ANZAC, Turks and Austrians, tanks, planes...and all the rest of it. Oh well, unfortunately WWI is not so widely popular over there in the colonies, so very unlikely to happen. Guess I'll have to do my own company (or stick with metals..) Cheers Labienus

WSS/Marlburian have reach the 1500 in the league… I want some! lol

Fantasy, especially the Dungeon Builder I sprue I submitted on L&U!

Ancient greek/persian/macedonians

dark futures!!! something for my zeds to fight!!!! suvivours and swat! aint the near future civilians already done on the lib & union?!?!

Hundred Years war. There is nothing in plastic available and the stuff in metal is way to expensive.

definitely a greek army! maybe not the 300 thing but a generic greek pike phalanx and some greek cavalry suitable to represent any of the city states. (and yes, you would then have to make persians to battle them)

War of Spanish Succession - just makes so much sense. All the nations line foot could be covered with a single sprue. Throw in some conversion sprues with Grenadier head variants and you have a complet infantry range. Same rule applies for the cav (exc Currasiers). One mould for all nations - why wouldn't you? Black Powder seems to be generating Horse and Musket fever and no one does a competing range- Simples!!!

Personally, I agree with Labienus and would like to see some WWI figures in plastic. It is my favorite time period and I don't want a horde of metals all in the same dozen poses advancing across No-Man's-Land. I like the posability your models allow when assembling and would love to see some Great War troops with that. And the range wouldn't have to focus on 1914-1918, but could include everything from the turn of the century to Inter-War period.

To that annonymous poster on napoleonics- eventually the other fellas will probably do a very full range of napoleonics. It would be madness for WGF to try to specialise in one niche area of napoleonics because the French and British are the most popular. Unless you can make the box sets seriously cheap (like thirty for less than £15) you are going to have trouble with Napoleonics.

Most WF sets are $19.95 about £12 and most are 28-32 figures...so they're already there with the pricing. I kindof doubt the Perrys will have the attention span to do much more in Napoleonics and they tend to do rather boring marching pose type sets anyway. Victrix are more dynamic...

I would like to see more ancients, presently I have been holding back(although I have bought some zombies) waiting for Imperial Romans....once they are available...and I buy them..I will get the germans. Other than that, I would love to see biblical-Hittites/Egyptians/etc. I love the period but the price for all those chariots is crazy in metal. Really any army with alot of cav. would be great in plastic to save the cost...just my thoughts.

I really hope time isn't wasted on sci-fi and fantasy nonsense. Just an opinion. I'd love to do something in the 18th-century time frame, but am unwilling to pull the trigger without knowing if WF will do some generic infantry in plastic. If they do, I'm all aboard.

Definatly dark future and post apocalypse with mutants, survivors and modern military for patrolling the ruins.

A set of modern civilians would be very nice. Unarmed, not spectacular, just ordinary people, like the Zombies but not undead. Usable in modern and Sci-Fi Settings. I would defiinately buy that and know several peple who would as well.

Crusades. Both sides of course.

more dark futures

More Dark Future... Knock out the near future civilians to take on the zombie hordes, then work from there :)

DARK FUTURES!!!

A complete Crimean war range would be the best choice. British,Russian,French,Turkish, etc. Take advantage of the marketing that Black Powder rules and Great war miniatures have started.

The last time I cheecked $20 was about, hmmm lets see - £20 (post credit crunch), particularly if you include the exchange rate. I am pretty sure Vitrix will produce a large amount of Napoleonics. It would not be commercially viable for WGF to enter this field when they already have so many competators. You may like the idea of it, but it would probably be a commercial disaster.

I voted for 7YW, but come to think of it, I would really like to see some dark future/post-apoc stuff. By that I don't necssarily mean the far-future tribal anachronisms (alla mad max, fallout), I think a situation shortly after the zombie outbreak would be cool; armed civilians, few, but well equiped spec-ops (with cool equipment, possibly wearing creepy gas masks, so they can be also used as some distopian "gestapo" force) and lone rangers, with rag-tag hazard suits, armed with all sorts of russian and western weaponry of our time. Let me argument on that; such figs could be used for anything from (near-future) sci-fi gaming to survival/distopian horror and post-apoc. So far one had to chase down appropriate SciFi minis and/or mod moder stuff. For references (especially on the "army" and "loners")check; -the Ariadna faction in Infinity (for the mix of new technologies and wooden-stocked assault rifles) -S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game series (to see how the army and how the civilians would equip to venture into the radioactive zone) -Half Life 2 and following episodes (for the "gestapo" masked bad guys and organised civilian resistance) -a bunch of horror movies, games and books, where some special forces unit takes the central stage and gets choped up piece by piece

Near Future Russians and Near Future Police Please!

I'd love to see some Madhist Ansar infantry, cavalry, and Beja fuzzy wuzzy infantry in their plastic Colonial range.

While I would love to see a full range of ancients, WW1 would be great also. Produce plastic greatcoats and gasmasks and I suspect you'd sell so many for W40K Imperial Guardsmen conversions. Affordable Death Korps of Krieg...

Near Future Russians, Near-Future Weapons, and 40mm Dreadnoughts!

IMHO WSS/SYW etc. is the premium way to go along with further Dark Ages releases. There is no one else doing either in plastic, and for the 18th century the demand is going to be there from Old School wargamers. Another thing is to look at fantasy. Any plastics that compete favourably with GW prices, which cannot be a difficulty, would be snapped up. Dwarves? Lizardmen, Ratmen. You name it, if I can pay $20 for 40 figures versus paying $20 or more for 10 figures in this day and age, well, I know who is going to get my money.

I want a conversion sprue with gasmaskheads (plain simple full head covering gasmasks, no helmets or hats) that could be used to convert other WF historical figures to something dark retrofuturistic.

i agree with joe and hope that time is not wasted on futuristic sci fi minis. it does not seem like a good direction for wgf. you guys have the best historical minis for the price and i would like to see a full range of ancients. greeks, persians, egyptians, mongols and the like.

i would rather see a new historical set of any army from any time period over a dark future set.

There is already a company doing a full range of fantasy plastics! With more coming out soon. Fantasy is less competative than sci fi. Im a fantasy fan but thats the truth of it.

French and Indian war or AWI would be awesome.

Marlburians, and lots of 'em...!!!!

You needed to put Dark Futures up as an option here I think!

Boxer Rebellion and multinational intervention. (i.e. late colonial.)

More Sci-Fi units like Marines and security and police forces in normal power armors and MBAs and stuff!

Moderns! The US and our allies are fighting two wars at the moment and few companies are supporting them, AFIK none in plastic. A hummer, US infantry and Middle East insurgents are at the top of my list.

I was seriously torn between ancients and medievals, but voted for the former.

War of 1812! There's a lot of interesting things that could be done with that period, I think. US, British, Canadian, and Native American forces, etc.

Dark Future, specifically something in the vein of Necromunda which would also be useful for sci-fi militia.

Another vote for a broader range of Dark Future models here - there is a potentially huge market for them as I'm sure you are already aware.

Greatcoats / Dark Futures

seriously there has to be some kind of addition to the zombies (at least armed civilians). Some postapocalyptic stuff could be added later, but actually you should focus on historical lines (imo greeks/persians) - although personally i'd prefer dark future

Great Coats! Dark Futures!

Voted for "Other" I am still waiting for good Renaissance plastics, especially Italian wars (NOT 30YW/ECW, which is not in any way Renaissance anymore)

DARK FUTURES!!!! Should have been an option in the poll!

Good poll…. Boy did you open a can of worms!! Loved the comments and have to concur with many. I voted for WWII although I like what you have been doing with the Ancients and believe that continuing that line to its natural conclusion is worth pursuing. AWI & ACW are something I enjoy playing as well as Franco/Prussian/Austrian…etc. BUT, I want plastic WWII troops. Let me rephrase that…GREAT LOOKING plastic WWII troops!! I can more easily modify to my needs. I have a nice metal army, but with the plastic troops I can customize gun crews, vehicle drivers and riders, truck loaders and assorted “other” poises that are too static in the metal ranges available (not to mention the expense!) I believe I am not alone in this desire. Metal is not that easy to modify/customize and although many other manufacturers produce a wide range of poses, do you really want a duce and a half full of sitting troops that look more like clones or a dynamic set of “boys” that look war weary and individualistic??? I put together about 50 "Caesar’s Legions" and even though there were several similar poses, they were all still unique individuals and when painted and mounted up this was clear to see! Adding in a bunch of plastic with my metal can only help make the entire force look better! I already mix metal manufacturer’s troops together, I have no problem with some being a little large than others….people are not all the same size either!!!

I love all three of your historical ranges (and have bought bunches of all) but have to vote for additions to the dark future/ post apocalytic line, hands down. The zombies need some victims and adversaries and it is an area with lots of potential -- SWAT, near future military, hi-tech to low-tech sci fi soldiers, mutants, wasteland marauders, aliens (love those little greys), generic power armor, robots, giant bugs, and almost any similar sci fi subject will fit. These also have lots of capacity for conversions and modifications. I very much like seeing more realistically proportioned sci fi -- as an alternative to the cartoon characters now available in plastic multi-pose. Lastly, a brief look through the L and U entries gives a pretty good indication of what's drawing interest and will, therefore, sell. Maybe you could you try to hitch up with a post apoc game system, such as your original affiliation with Field of Glory? P.S. Beware of using the title "Dark Futures" as it may bear too strong a similarity with a 1980's game published by those other guys; hate to see you buying a lawsuit.

I just received the Vikings. O...MY...GOODY...NESS!!! They are FANTASTIC!! Well done. So my new answer to the above poll is ALL OF THE ABOVE!!!!!

Musketeers please! There isn't much available in good quality 28mm to cover the swashbuckling skirmish games. It wouldn't need to be a huge range... Alternatively, cheap cannon-fodder would seem to make economic sense eg Mahdists/Fuzzy-Wuzzies.

My vote goes for Dark Future.

Dark Future!!! Zombies! Greatcoats!

How about some Crusaders?

Hello all, can you trace my IP from here? London. I'm not Warlord or Workshop or whoever else you think I am.

More Ancients: Parthians/Sassanids, Imperial Romans, Late Romans, Greeks, Persians, Egyptians, Successors etc. etc. You're producing official FoG miniatures, aren't you? Oh, and FoG bases for your minies would be nice too.

Difficult, It strange but my first boxes of romans arrived more or less a year ago ( I live in the netherlands and I still think customs never have seen plastic models before). Little did I suspect what was coming towards us, Wargames factory went from a company that had only "virtual" models to show to a large range of sets/ranges within a year. I really want more of all ranges, but ancients have always been more intresting for me, so even after 300+ romans and lots of celts, numidians and germans... more ancients, Hoplite greek would be nice or Egypt. Although I would not pass on ssome decent "longcoat" future infantery either.

Greeks that what we need city state Greeks, thanks in advance keep it up.

I would love to see some dark futures sometime soon.

COLD WAR AIRCRAFT

Pretty interesting Dispersal of votes so far. I'm for Dark Futures first and foremost.

Dark Futures! Bring on the Greatcoats, near future civilians and power armored troopers!

FoG ancient and eastern armies (especially japanese) would be great

I just realised though I voted for Other 'Dark Futures' - had I a second choice I would add the 'Far East' = Samurai, Koreans & Ming Chinese Oh My!

Rage Zombies Female Zombies Near-Future Weapons Sprue

Well, I certainly hope you're satisfied? You've really started something here, Tony. Workplace productivity throughout the western world would seem to have ground to a halt. Anyway, Crusades would be nice. First Crusade especially as Crusader models would double as Normans for the Hammer of the Gods range: two birds, one stone. Nice. Also late Republican Roman Parthians would be great.

DarkFutures- more variety to the zombie range and some survivors to fight them off!

more celtic or roman troops!!!!!!!!

i would like have a macedonian army in plastics. pikemen, archers, companian and thessalian cavalry.

Any chance of rerunning this poll with Near Future, Modern and Far East Medievals as options?

Chaotic Cultists and Space Oks/Mangalores

A lot of these are cool, but there's just so much potential for Ancients, and WF already supports an Ancients game system. Greeks/Spartans seem to be particularly in demand. I *would* like to see some Japanese Ashigaru, Samurai, and warrior-monks, though...not to mention some Ming Chinese for them to fight...

Post Apoc or Superheroes

I voted for Marlburians. Big fan of the period. But I would love to see some Pulp/Gangster/Explorers in plastic. I need them for a skirmish game Im working on.

Please put out the WSS infantry and some horse and cannon to go with it. I have a project that could really use them and after seeing the infantry sprue top 1000, the prior "GO" mark for L&L, and then just sit there for an age I have lost some faith in the Liberty and Union League concept. You seem to have ancients pretty well cornered, so I understand sticking with it. If anything I'd say pick a range and fill it before offering anything else to the public as a potential product.

i think dark future mini's would be good but they are common now and there are quite a number out there i would and many friends would like to see a more historic wargame. GREEKS/MACEDONIANS/EGYPTIANS

Roman high command

What i would love to find are plastic hoplites and ancient egyptian and hittite troops. The only one i've found so far that does these are Foundry (in metal) and making an ancient battles scaled army with those would cost me more than my apartment. And a box of ancient civillians would be awesome.

out of the big three, ACW, nappy and WWII two are done. so, WWII it is:) sovjets and germans? id have to get some of those and i think they would sell really well.

What i dream about getting a hold of are plastic mongols and teutonic knights like the totally uber-cool ones from Medieval TW.

Ancient Spanish, or Parthians, or something else distinct from either the Roman or Germano-Celtic appearance please! AKI

Some one for the Vikings to hack-up and some one for the zombies to play with would be nice.

fascinating to read what people are working on!-but figures to suit the 1930s-pulp adventures etc and moderns to suit ambush alley would be great!most of these would crossover to many periods eg moderns to post appocalypse(spelling?)pulp figures to cthulhu type gaming etc regards Markus from Australia

Dark Future would be excellent!

Samurai

I'd like to echo Labienus and Stonewall115 comments. There is a growing number of rule sets for WWI skirmish games and this is a period that is only covered by metals that I know of. A well detailed range of infantry up to and including heavy infantry weapons for Britain, France and Germany followed by Australians/ Canadians/ Sth Africans, Turks/Ottomans, Italians, Belgians and Austrians. There is a growing market for good plastic figures in this genre.

Samurai would be cool, since the Perry bros. are mostly metal.

I would vote for Samurai

15 mm would be cool. (Ancient, WW2, Napoleonic, etc) WW2 1/300 scale aircraft would be cool. Plastic LOTR compatible fantasy figs might be cool too.

Orcs and/or Dwarves! Orc heads and weapons/shields/flair to be mixed with Viking/German/Celt etc. bodies! And! Dwaven bodies and weapons/shield/flair to be mixed with Viking/German/Celt etc. heads!

Some 1660 to 1705 style infantry with a selection of different headgear would fill several gaps.

I honestly don't understand the whole "Dark Future" push, especially since there are already so many companies that offer that kind of thing. More grotesquely malformed people in "power armor?" Snoozefest. A nice box of Marlburians with some head variants would permit a plethora of gamers who WSS or Imagination gaming to mass up gigantic armies on the cheap. You couldn't possibly lose.

Please give us some 30 years-war\80 years War dutch and Spanish

Any would be cool from this company but I would like to see some WW2 models that not only look good but wouldnt make you go to war to have to shell out the coin for...these guys can do it!

Greatcoats!!! I am selling now all my celts and vikings, so I can buy killzonelike figures. please give me greatcoats!!?! and MuTaNts!!!

English Civil War/Thirty Years War or some Skraelings to fight the Vikings

dark future

more plastic ancients plz! greeks!

More sci-fi, dammit!!! Powered armour, modular starships, greatcoats, and more!

I voted Ancient. Another Roman sprue with arms and heads to give a better look to the 1st Century BCE Romans. That said, I love to see some less tread stuff. Why not the 3 Kingdom armies of China? Since all the troops would look more or less alike, you would need a infantry set, a Cavalry set, and a Weapons sprue. Add a couple of special figures in the mix for characters such as strategist, commanders, and heroes and you have a complete range. You could even add Chariots and warmachines in for a earlier armies of the Han. I would buy boatloads of such figures.

Good no EXCELLENT POLL. But don't forget what everyone always neglects... CREWS, wagon teams etc. all the extra stuff.

Keep making ancients, dark ages, and medieval. They are the bread and butter of the wargaming world together with Napoleonics. Do not stop making historicals. PLEASE.

Well, the L&UL has 100% on your Samurai Warrior thing since September -- I say we get those out!

Please do the Greatcoats already.And do them 30mm, bigger than the historical range.Why the wait by doubling the number of pre-orders? Don't you want to make money? How's S.W.A.T.S. for a name,Severe.Weather.Assault.Squad? You could do a lighter jacketed squad in future.The coats are long because of bad weather, right???

Japanese Shogunate with some period specificity (Nobunaga/Hideyoshi/Tokugawa for arquebus and spear, or Genpei/Hojo Regency for bows, naginata, big, fancy armor, and maybe some Mongolian invaders). No one's doing Japanese in 28mm plastics... yet... More "Great Coat" stuff, as a close second.

I honestly would LOVE to see somebody do a range of plastics for the War of 1812 and the Creek War. I think it would be very cool to see Andrew Jackson and his militia in a plastic set! (Perhaps you could make Jackson in metal rather than plastic. That would be doubly cool.)

Near or Dark Future, or Weird War II.

Italian wars (medieval) would be nice as they can double up for other armies of this period. Also 30YW/ECW as mentioned above.