Undead Engineers for Flintloque and Slaughterloo

Hello Everyone, 

A new miniatures set for use with Flintloque or Slaughterloo. Huzzah! 

55513 Undead Engineers £16.00 

(8 White Metal Miniatures plus bases) 

This versatile set contains one mounted Vampyre Engineer Officer on Horse, one fully laden Undead Pack Horse, one Scenic Item (wooden coffin filled with bones and bombs) and four Zombie sappers on foot. Those on foot comprise Zombie with pickaxe, Zombie in Shako with Axe-Musket, Zombie with Shovel and Dwarf Zombie pointing.The mounted officer comes with a choice of two hands, a messenger bat or a primed pistol. 

Parts of this code can be purchased as singles search for 55513-A, 55513-B, 55513-C for the Mounted Officer, Pack Horse, Scenic Item. Full rules for the creation and use of Engineers and Sappers in Flintloque can be found in the 5027 Flintloque 3rd Edition – Grapeshotte book and in the Slaughterloo rulebook. 

With our Salute 2011 offer you can get 15% off an order with us and or arrange collecting an order at the show from stand TJ13. This stock item will be on our stand. CLICK HERE (or full information and details on our offer. 

Gavin Syme

Princess Julianna Regiment for Flintloque

Hello Everyone, 

We have a new limited edition code for Flintloque. 

LEU03 Princess Julianna 

£34.50 (16 Dwarves with numbered insert and plastic bases) 

Each set is supplied with sixteen Dwarves including officer, standard bearer and mixed poses of trooper armed with firelocks. All sets are numbered and supplied with an insert containing background, uniform and so on. Limited to one hundred sets only. 

You can read the full background of this set HERE

There are several postings concerning this set in great detail on the blog of the designer Mr Tony Harwood, long time Flintloque fan. You can read about the idea, creation and so on of this set HERE

This set is dedicated to the memory of Tony Harwood's niece Julianna who sadly died in the spring of 2011 from cancer. Tony kindly provided the image here from his personal collection. 

Also you can currently get 15% off this set and any other order with us using our Salute 2011 promotion, details on our website's New Releases page. 

Thanks for Reading, 

Alexander Scott.

Price Increases at Alternative Armies and 15mm.co.uk

Royal Bank of Scotland £100 note

Hello Everyone,

It is with a heavy hear that I must report news that Alternative Armies and 15mm.co.uk will be raising their prices for the first time in three years as of the 6th March 2011.

In the time that has since past raw materials and other costs along with global currency changes have had a dramatic effect upon the company.  We will be re-pricing by around 15% on most ranges at Alternative Armies and 10% on most ranges at 15mm.co.uk.  We tell you this as those of you who are Notables and view our blogs are our most loyal customers.   

If you wish to place an order at our current prices please do so this week.

We did not want to have to put up prices and have managed to avoid it on paper products but with metal tripling in price in the last six months alone we have little choice and we will remain competitive and our excellent customer service will remain in place!

Thanks for reading!

Gavin Syme

5028 Bier & Bones book now Released!

Hello Everyone!

The big day is here and Alternative Armies has now released the brand new fourth book in the Flintloque series for third edition.

5028 Flintloque - Bier and Bones

It's a cracker with all new background, more than twenty nations listed, full rules, unique skills traits and flaws, tables, pull out sheets and more all in its ninety six pages.

If you are a Dogmen, Dwarf, Ogre or Rabbitman player...this is your book!

Go HERE for more information.

Regards,

Gavin.

Von Rotte Line now released for Flintloque

The Von Rotte Line Infantry - Now Released !!!

The Von Rotte Legion are veterans of the war in Kartoffelburg and the earlier Monich Bier Wars.

Read of their exploits and their statistics in 5028 Bier & Bones book.

52018 Von Rotte Line Command  £5.00 (Three Dwarves)

52019 Von Rotte Line Sodats £5.00 (Three Dwarves)

52514-U Von Rotte Line UNIT £30.00 (20 Dwarves)

CLICK HERE  

Also this is the last week for pre-order on 5028 Bier and Bones book.  Last chance to get the free Promo2010 miniatures, the Bomb Bunny worth £3.50, with your book when its mailed on the 17th February 2010.  Click on the above link.

Festive Raffle 2010 - WINNERS DRAWN!

Hello Everyone,

Well today is the day and the raffle is over for another year.  Delayed by the terrible weather the winners of all five top notch prizes have now been drawn from the hat.  Prizes will be sent out later today and winners have all been informed by email.

You can learn more here:  CLICK

Also the Promo2010 miniature will not be sent out with orders anymore and can now only be had with 5028 Bier & Bones book pre-orders until release day.

Regards,

Gavin.

Last Two Days for the Festive Raffle - Get in on it Now!

The Alternative Armies Maginficent Raffle ends at noon on 31st January 2011 - You have only got a few days left to enter!

Great Prizes and a FREE Promo2010 'The Bombe Bunny' Miniature worth £3.50 with every order placed during the raffle.

Click Here, then scroll down, for full information: PAGE

Winners will be informed by email and prizes automatically sent by first class mail. 

Also the Promo2010 miniature molds will be DESTROYED shortly afterwards.

For the original posting on the Raffle - CLICK HERE 

Classic Flintloque Posters - limited stock now at Alternative Armies

Hello Everyone,

Recent activity on the Notables Yahoo Group concerning classic Flintloque the Skirmish posters that date from the mid 1990's has prompted Alternative Armies to search its stock room and put up for sale a limited number of three of these posters.

Each poster is larger than A3 size and printed on high quality paper, supplied in a cardboard tube for safe transit.

Go HERE to get to them.

Get a little piece of history for your wall now...these once graced most gaming stores across the world!

Thanks,

Gavin. 

Notables Newspaper Issue 3 - Sells Out

Notables Newspaper Issue 3

Hello Everyone,

Some of you reading this might not know that a few years ago Alternative Armies produced a run of four issues of the 'Notables Newspaper'.  The twenty four page loose leaf fanzine was done in the style of an eighteen century Londinium gentlemans periodical based around the Notables Club.

Given away free with orders over a year the newspaper was very popular and once its run ended it was released for sale at a very reasonable £1.50 an issue.  Packed with scenarios, artwork, background for Flintloque and other games it continues to be ordered to this day by new players and old soaks too.

Sadly the large print run of Issue 3, the last of the four created, has not run out totally.  It is marked as sold out on the website.   Thanks to all who bought it and loved it so.

The other three are still around in limited numbers with Issue 1 being the least left of them.

CLICK HERE to see them all and read about their contents.

Oh, and though the image here does not show it all of the Notables Newspapers were printed on yellowed paper to make them more 'real'!

You could do far worse than having a read of these rapidly becoming collectors items for AA fans.

Gavin.

Dougies Depot now on Alternative Armies

Hello Everyone,

This just in from Alternative Armies.  Its been a month in the planning but finally the company has begun to put up publically on their website all of the pro-painted miniatures from all their game systems and ranges that for one reason or another are not shipped out in orders.  See below for the main text and link but this is well worth a look and I myself have picked up half a dozen 28mm Fantasy Orcs for DarkeStorme.

When the armies of the gaming table are not in conflict it is to Master Sergeant Dougie McSwee that they turn to for new uniforms, weapons and a space in the crowded barracks of the wargaming universe. For you and I this means a break from battle and a chance to plan some new recruits to your miniature forces. There are few better places to get these reinforcements than here. Here at Dougies Depot Pro-Painted, White Metal, Fully Based and ready to play 28mm scale miniatures from Alternative Armies are presented for inspection in a different way.

Dougies Depot is our place for end of run production, over stocks, cancelled orders and other reasons that result in painted miniatures produced by hand here in Scotland and finished to the highest wargaming standard being left in our crowded warehouse. So Dougie has here a listing of all these miniatures, each with his coding structure (though you will doubtless recognise these fine little fellows from our ranges) for you to dig through and choose from at your leisure. We cannot say for sure what will appear here, only that it will be items listed elsewhere on this website as part of packs or larger codes and that what you see is what you get.

Miniatures, packs even full unit codes for Flintloque, Slaughterloo, High Fantasy, Frontear, Erin, Ion Age and more. 

With a special 'Depot' saving minimum of ten percent off the regular list price each infantry miniature is only £3.60 and that includes the metal miniature,the base, the hand painting, sculpted basing effect and secure packaging straight to you.

Oh and any discount code you have from us CAN be used ON TOP of Dougies Depot discount here!

Go on...have a dig on Dougie!

CLICK HERE

Magnum Orcus 2010 - Twenty Copies for sale now

Magnum Orcus book 2010 - Incorrect Print Run copy

In early december 2010 the print run of the annual Magnum Orcus book arrived with Alternative Armies. With only TWENTY copies being printed it is a real rarity and has never been offered to the public for purchase, instead being internal use only for the company.

However the initial run of twenty copies contained an ERROR, that being the inside rear page is incorrect. But otherwise the 56pp book is perfect. Another print run was ordered and sent out as is traditional.

Now though with the agreement of the artist we can offer YOU the chance to purchase one of the incorrect print run copies for yourself. If you are happy to pay £10.00 for a little piece of history and don't mind an incorrect page (it shows 2009's back page if you are interested) then get one today.

There are only twenty copies and they will be sold first come first served...and no we will not reserve one for you, its not fair on others.

MO2010
56pp
Softcover
(Outer pages colour, mono inner)
All Artwork plus commentary for 2010 by Edward Jackson and Gavin Syme.

Price: £10.00

 

CLICK HERE

Alternative Armies Festive Raffle Extended!

Hello Everyone,

The Alternative Armies festive raffle and promotional miniature offer has been extended due to the the extreme weather in December and the two week backlog of orders the company currently has to clear.

The Raffle was due to end on the 6th January 2011 but will now end on 31st January 2011.

For full details of the raffle, the prizes, the free miniature and so on see this POST on the blog.

Go HERE for the Raffle on the Alternative Armies site.

Thanks,

Gavin.

Alternative Armies and 15mm.co.uk close early for Christmas

SEE COMMENTS FOR UPDATE

Hello Everyone,

Well for the first time ever Alternative Armies and 15mm.co.uk have closed down early for the Christmas break.  As of this morning operations ceased and all package mailing suspended.  The situation will be reviewed day by day and when news comes around I will post it up.

Scotland is in the grip of a 'big freeze' on of the worst I can remember with temperatures this morning a refreshing -15c or 5 degrees Fahrenheit I must say that we cannot work in this temperature and neither it seems can the rest of the country.  The Royal Mail has a huge backlog and packages mailed a week ago are not arriving, so there is little point in sending more until the weather improves.  This is before the vast increase in mail due to the festive season is even taken in to account.

I apologise for this but its best solution for all concerned and if you are in the UK then you will know of the weather issues via the news already.

Alternative Armies and 15mm.co.uk will review their domestic and international freight in a week's time and will contact all affected customers.  In the meantime feel free to contact them via normal email methods heading up the email 'Winter Delay' and they will be happy to reply when they can.

As regards the tragic death of Craig Andrews (he of Orcs in the Webbe fame) father at the weekend all of us here send our best wishes to him and his family at this time and we are thinking of them all fondly.  More news on the OITW Advent Calendar when we hear it.

As regards the Festive Raffle at Alternative Armies and so forth discussions will be held as to possible changes and or expansion of its terms to take the adverse weather into account.  More news on this when its decided.

So Merry Christmas and Wrap up Warm.  

Oh and for those of you who are fans of Flintloque...goodbye from the Witchlands made real!

Regards,

Gavin Syme. 

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5028 Flintloque 3rd ed - Bier & Bones: Pre-Order Now!

PRE-ORDER NOW!

RELEASE DATE WORLDWIDE 17TH FEBRUARY 2011

5028 Flintloque 3rd Edition - Bier & Bones

Please note any order for this product with get a free Promo2010 miniature automatically and will be dispatched in the week of release. If you pre-order and place other products in your order these other products will be sent before the release of 5028 unless placed one week before book release.

The forth book in the series for Flintloque 3rd edition sees the Ostarian Empire fighting for its life against the Ferach Armees of the Emperor Mordred. Before the invasion of the Witchlands and the canker of the Catalucian ulcer the Emperor Mordred forged the Confederation of Finklestein and subdued Burrovia before taking his columns against the Dogmen of Ostaria at the Battle of Osterblitz. Soon the Dwarves of Krautia joined the fray and the future of Valon was for the taking...

The Bier & Bones book contains full Flintloque rules, the background to the Wars of Urop, the Armies of Ostaria, Krautia, Burrovia and other minor powers and allies plus characters and section generation. Skills, Traits and Flaws along with scenario creation and three starter scenarios. Solo play mechanics and pull out sheets (Section Roster, Game Counters I, Game Counters II) and much more.

A4 Format

Perfect Bound

96 pages

Colour Covers & Colour centrefold

Pull Out Pages

ISBN and Barcode

£15.00

A stand alone rulebook that can be used on its own or with 5025 War in Catalucia, 

5026 Death in the Snow and 5027 Grapeshotte.

MORE INFORMATION ON 5028 FLINTLOQUE 3RD EDITION – BIER & BONES Here are the contents of the Bier & Bones book section by section.
Introductory Section Title Page, Contents and Credits Page, What is Flintloque the Skirmish, Introduction to the World of Valon, The Napoleonique Style of War.
The War in the Central Urop This section of the book contains background covering the initial Ferach Attacks upon the other nations of Urop, the formation of the Confederation of Finklestein, subduing the Burrovian Republique and the climatic Battle of Osterblitz. In addition to this are other minor campaigns such as the Tree Line Wars, Krautia and the Monich Bier Wars, Saxhunde and the Battle of Yenna and much more. All of the Central Uropean fighting right up to the current campaigns in Kartoffelburg giving you the chance to play out any one of them. Additionally the background section of the book also contains Scenario Seeds like those in 5025 and 5026 which give you great ideas and set ups for forces for your games of Flintloque set in Central Urop.
The Armies of the Uropean Wars This section of the book contains the organisation, troops types, uniforms and famous characters from the primary armies involved in the Uropean Wars. These are the Dogmen of the Ostarian Empire, the Dwarves of Krautia, the Rabbitmen of Burrovia, the Ogres of Hunvaria and all of the regular and dutchy troops in the Confederation of Finklestein (including the Dutchy of Saxhunde, the Dwarves of Beervaria, the Von Rotte regiments etc). Minor powers covered include The Dogmen of Pudigrochumsberg, the Dwarves of Brewswick and of the Blacke Horde, the Wild Evles of Swizzic and Turcani plus the Ogres of the Krautian Giant Legion and more. All you need to organise your forces.
Character and Section Creation Here you will find out how to create sections including officers, musicians and more. How to deal with your troops between games and replacing the dead. Also Skills, Traits and Flaws unique to each race in the Armies section are listed here. Finally Wylde Magicke for mortal characters.
The Rules of Bier & Bones Introduction, Designers Note, Terms and Definitions. The full rules for Flintloque the Skirmish along with exclusive content on all of the racial types covered in the book such as Dogmen, Dwarves and Ogres. Skills Traits and Flaws along with National Characteristics make your characters from this book all the more unique. Also unique troops and sets for Ostarian, Krautian and Burrovian players.
The Tables for Flintloque This section contains all the needed tables and statistics for Bier & Bones. Master Racial stats tables, Weapon tables, Mounts and Melee tables and more.
Solo Play rules for Flintloque Flintloque 3rd editions unique easy to use Solo Play mechanics. Simple, effective and popular!
Pull Out Sheets These pages are perforated for easy removal by players and contain useful tables, rosters and counters.
Ninety Six packed pages of adventure and fun for all miniature wargamers!

 

Click Here

The Festive Raffle 2010 - From Alternative Armies now on!

The Festive Raffle 2010  

Presented by Alternative Armies.....

Tickets supplied with ANY Order at the rate of one per £5.00 spent (or fraction there of) with the winning numbers being drawn, winners contacted and numbers announced here on 6th January 2011.

Remember also that any order placed gains a free Promo2010  miniature as well so its a double win!

All prizes are provided by Alternative Armies and are delivered by 1st class or international mail to the winner free of charge. Winners will be contacted by email using the address given on their qualifying order that produced the tickets.  A record of all ticket numbers is kept by the company.

The Prizes in the Raffle are as follows;  

1st Prize

2nd Prize

Magnum Orcus 2010

 56pp Softcover Book.

A limited run book (20 copies only) of the artwork produced by Mr Edward Jackson during 2010.

A significant prize and collectors item sought after by many Flintloque, Slaughterloo and Firefight 2.0 players.

These are the only two copies being given to the General Public, all others are for internal company use only.

3rd Prize

A Slaughterloo Unit of Von Rotte Line Infantry worth £30.00

Never heard of these Dwarven Infantry miniatures?  

Not a surprise as they will not be released until January 2011.

Twenty Dwarves including Officer, Musician, Standard Bearer and three different poses of troopers.

4th Prize

£20.00 Alternative Armies Gift Voucher

A voucher which can be used for any Alternative Armies products online or by telephone.  

This may include postage.

5th Prize

Choose a Prize!

The winner will be contacted to select their choice of £15.00 worth of Alternative Armies product from our ranges which will then be sent to them post free anywhere in the world.

Choose from, among others...Flintloque, Firefight 2.0, DarkeStorme, High Fantasy and more.

Promo2010 Miniature - Free with Any Order from Alternative Armies

The Bombe Bunny: This miniature is the promotional miniature for 2010 from Alternative Armies.

It is supplied for free automatically with any and all orders, one per order placed, during the month of December 2010 until 6th January 2011. The miniature will be supplied unpainted unless the majority of the order placed is for painted codes in which case the miniature will be automatically supplied painted and based.

The Promo 2010 miniature will also be supplied at the rate of one per order for the 5028 Bier & Bones book until its release on 17th February 2011. Note that after 6th January 2011 this will be the ONLY way to get this miniature. The miniature will be supplied bagged with a printed insert detailing its background, special rules and painting guide.  On the 18th February 2011 the mold containing this code will be destroyed making it an extremely rate collectors item much like the 2009 miniature Raylen Durandus the Imperial Messenger.

There is a December festive Flintloque scenario featuring the Bomb Bunny which can be had for free upon email request or from the Notables Yahoo Group as of mid month. The scenario is entitled ‘Powdered Eggs’.

28mm High Fantasy - Legions of the Dead

Brains...want fresh Brains!

Well that's enough about my own burnout for today at least ( joke!) but this week at Alternative Armies its all about the Undead with codes released into the High Fantasy range which is excellent for players of DarkeStorme and all other 28mm scale fantasy systems.

Legions of the Dead






VNT10 Zombies.
A great pack of useful poses to build up a horde of the living dead.






Above is code VNT11 Zombies II.
A second pack of the shambling dead which adds even more poses to your legions.








The Eternal Guard code VNT12.
An Undead Mage, Skeletal Champion and Zombie standard and musician







VNT13 Skeletal Warriors.
The core of any warband or battle unit of skeletons.






VNT14 Skeleton Archers.
Put some extra holes in the enemy with these bone bowcasters!






VNT15 Skeleton Polearms.
Spears, Axes and attitude; these lads have them all!








VNT16 Skeleton Command.
Perfect for leading any group of the above miniatures into battle.

All of these packs are £8.00 (for five) or £6.00 (for four) or just £1.75 each because of course with this range you can choose to buy the whole pack or any amount of any of the poses from it; total flexibility (unlike the Undead!) for you to choose from. All the miniatures are supplied with a plastic round base included.

Thanks for reading!

Gavin.

Painted High Fantasy range at Alternative Armies

Hello Barkers!

Its a big week for High Fantasy in 28mm scale. In fact they have now fought their way out from under the pile of Barking Irons magazines and Baron Petrochemicoli limited editions to get my attention!

Some of you will be aware that Alternative Armies produces a great deal of top notch painted miniatures every year, all hand painted here in Scotland, covering everything from Flintloque / Slaughterloo miniatures to HOF and HOT 15mm miniatures. These painted miniatures also include High Fantasy in 28mm. Starting this week the company has introduced a brand new system and web page for these painted and based miniatures.

Have a look here for full details of the range, the service and what is on offer.

At only £4.00 a miniature (less if you take the full pack code) you can purchase a full set or multiples or any singles from it. Maximum flexibility. This is a great way to get playing DarkeStorme (see here) or any other system for High Fantasy both wargaming and roleplaying.

The releases have begun with some really spiffing and useful Undead and a couple of Trolls. Here are some pictures to whet your whistle for more! See the site link above for full details of each code.

Mountain Orcs and Orc Artillery at Alternative Armies

Hello Everyone,

Those of you who are eagle eyed might have noticed I am a day late in posting up this news about new miniatures from Alternative Armies in the High Fantasy 28mm range. Well, I have been a bit under the weather and still am to an extent, but hopefully I will be back to normal next week. That aside here is the news!

Alternative Armies have re-released some of the most popular high fantasy codes from their extensive range this week including two packs of hulking Mountain Orcs and my fav the Orc Artillery pack. See images of them below;
























95519 Mountain Orcs
Six Large Orcs

This pack contains six different Mountain Orcs to form a warband command along with warriors to command within it. Led by a truly massive warlord this pack also has a wizard, standard bearer, musician, spearman and swordsman too. Each Orc stands 30mm tall. Choosing poses 5 and 6 in multiples allows the creation of larger units of Mountain Orcs when combined with code KC02.

From the left the poses are

Pose 1: 95519-01 Warboss, sperate arm, stands 50mm tall!
Pose 2: 95519-02 Wizard
Pose 3: 95519-03 Standard Bearer with Stone Club
Pose 4: 95519-04 Drummer, spiked helm
Pose 5: 95519-05 Sword, wooden shield, armour
Pose 6: 95519-06 Spear, armour

KC2 Mountain Orcs
Three Large Orcs

This pack contains three different Mountain Orcs in a variety of poses which form a good centre from which to expand your rampaging forces. Each Orc stands 30mm tall.

From the left the poses are

Pose 1: KC02-01 Spiked Club and Shield
Pose 2: KC02-02 Two Handed Spiked Mace
Pose 3: KC03-03 Greatsword and Shield

95522 Orc Artillery
Artillery Piece with Crew

This pack contains two Orc Gunners and a kit for constructing a Bolt Thrower.

From the left the poses are

Pose 1: 95522-01 Officer with Club
Pose 2: 95522-02 Gunner, Bolt
Pose 3: Artillery Piece Kit (Bow and Base)

All the miniatures are supplied with round lipped plastic bases included in the price and as with the rest of the range you can choose to buy the whole pack or single miniatures in any quantity from the pack. So if you want nine Mountain Orcs with Sword and Shield you can have it!

Go here: High Fantasy. Then navigate to Orcish Horde and Mountain Orcs to see the packs.

More releases in this range to come later this month.

Regards,

Gavin.

LE043 Baron Petrochemicoli - Released!

Hello Barkers,

A big day today. As proffered in the ITA column on Orcs in the Webbe earlier this week today sees the release of the latest limited edition code from Alternative Armies.

LE043 Baron Petrochemicoli
(Limited to 1000 numbered packs - £5.00 inluding plastic base. 28mm white metal)













As you can see he is a hansome beggar and no mistake. CLICK HERE

The Alternative Armies website page for this code has images and also a transcript of the insert for the character giving background, uniform details, Flintloque rules, Slaughterloo rules. Well worth a read.

The Baron is the funder and leader of the excellent Cotechino Guarda. Miniatures for these elite Todoroni are already on general release. See below or CLICK HERE












If you would like to read the OITW column then CLICK HERE for it. Its all about Todoroni.

As always post any comments or email me direct if you want to discuss this posting.

Get your Baron today!

Gavin.