CALL TO ARMS
Modiphius.net £28 - £43
We said at the end of last month’s Fallout review that Modiphius Entertainment have released a new trio of Elder Scrolls models that we just didn’t have space to cover in the previous issue. So, here we are then: three new boxed figure sets, all with an inhuman theme. As (almost) always, the models are cast as kits in high quality grey resin with individual sculpted bases. They are superbly detailed and very proportionate whilst being roughly 32mm tall. Well, except for one of them...
Let’s start off with the Draugr. There are already a lot of Draugr in the Elder Scrolls range but these are new: a boxed, five-figure set are called the Call to Arms: Draugr Masters they are £39. They are – broadly – undead: these Draugr Wights are the elite troops of the Draugr and are powerful adversaries who attack with their ice-magic or close with their opponents to engage them with their Nordic style swords and shields. They are led by their Wight Lord who uses a large two-handed axe but the set also includes a Solstheim Dragon Priest. All of the regular guys are dressed in helmets and almost Roman, segmented-style armour over their withered bodies, but the Priest has (I’m guessing) dragon-scale style armour (I assume he’s not actually a dragon...) and wields a magic staff. These are good figures and would do double duty as wights for any game background if you’re not an Elder Scrolls player.
Next we have the Call to Arms: Ghosts of Yngvild. This box has six figures for £43 and are split into two types although that’s mostly based on the painting choices made. They represent the ‘summoned unquiet dead’. Leader of the group is the Exiled Necromancer Arondil and under him he has two acolytes: Breton and Dunmer who are also both Necromancers (one male, one female – probably). They are all very interesting figures in robes and the two acolytes are holding staffs whereas the main chap appears to have a crystal. On top of these three figures are three female Yngvild Ghosts. These are all female and wearing long flowing robes and the Modiphius website does a nice job of showing an ethereal paint job on them but – if you wanted to paint them more ‘regularly’ – they would pass as run of the mill, dagger armed, grinning women in long skirts (with a plethora of uses!). The scenic bases on the acolytes in this boxed set are particularly good.
Lastly we have a the Call to Arms: Frost Atronach. This is a rather bigger figure on a larger base. I’d normally say it’s “40mm to the top of the head” but that’s kind of torpedoed by the model not having a head, as such... The body effectively ends at the shoulders.
At £28 the kit comes with separate arms. The creature is a sort of Ice Giant, I guess, and seems to be comprised of just that: ice. It has an icy spike and clubbed frozen fist which will both be nasty in a punch up and – apparently – even after death they explode into a sphere of deadly ice shards. So ‘kill them’ at your own risk... Now I know that clear resin is a pain to cast but I can’t help feeling that this is a missed opportunity: it would have been a great model to cast in clear rather than grey plastic but... it’s still a nice model and will paint up well with dry brush or edge highlight. At least you won’t have to paint eyes on it!
All of these new models are for use with The Elder Scrolls: A Call to Arms Miniatures Core Rules and Chapter 4 Card Pack. They are all recommended.