OFFICIAL - GZG: TWENTY PACKS of new 15mm releases almost ready!

Hi all,

UPDATE - SUNDAY 29th JANUARY 2017:

NEW RELEASES JUST ABOUT READY!

I hope that 2017 is treating you all well so far.... the good news from this
end is that I'm well over the bug that I had, and the last couple
of weeks have seen a positive flurry of mould-making (as well as keeping
up with the orders that have been coming in) - so I'm now ALMOST ready
to release a massive TWENTY new 15mm packs! Moulds are all made, display
figures are all cast, assembled and inked, all I have to do now is photograph
them and upload the details of them all to the store, then you can start
buying..... don't forget that those of you who have
discount vouchers from pre-Christmas orders still have a whole month to
use them up, as they expire at the end of February.

The new releases should all be up on the store and available within the next
couple of days, so please check back here very soon, I will let you know just
as soon as they are up!

To whet your appetities, and so you can start figuring out what you want to
order, here is the full list of what will be available:

ALL packs listed will be £3.00 each (inc VAT, £2.50 ex-VAT for
overseas non-EU customers).

First off, an ALL-NEW RANGE: The Brethren of The New Light!

SG15-BR01        Brethren Riflemen pack A - 8 figures as 2 each of 4
different poses, all with standard combat rifles
SG15-BR02        Brethren Riflemen pack B - 8 figures as 2 each of 4
different poses, all with standard combat rifles
SG15-BR03        Brethren Light Machine Gunners - 8 figures as 2 each of
4 different poses, all with LMG/SAW
SG15-BR04        Brethren Light Support Weapons - 8 figures as 2 each of
4 different poses, 2 with shoulder-fired light antitank rocket, 2 with
sniper rifle
SG15-BR05        Brethren Command and Comms - 8 figures as 2 each of 4
different poses - standing officer with binocs, kneeling observer,
kneeling comms operator and Officer/Field Preacher with book and pistol
SG15-BR06        Brethren Heavy Autocannon teams - 2 guns and tripods, 4
crew figures (2 per gun), plus bonus sprue of spare ammo cans
SG15-BR07        Brethren Multiple Rocket Battery teams - 2 launchers
and tripods (plus optional 2-part tripods without bases), 4 crew figures
(2 per weapon team) PLUS bonus comms figure
SG15-BR08        Brethren Antitank Missile teams - 2 twin-missile
launchers and bases, 4 crew figures (2 per launcher) plus bonus sprues of
crated reload missiles

Then, a much-requested addition to the Xar ("Chitters") range.....

SG15-X37        Xar (Chitters) unarmed - pack of Xar warriors attacking
with claws, no weapons or equipment (3 figures, all different poses)

Continuing the resculpt and expansion of the NSL Jaeger Colonial Light Troops:
SG15-N44        NSL Jaeger Light Infantry (new sculpt) special weapons -
sniper rifles and portable missile launchers - 8 figs, 2 each of 4 poses

More of the Armoured Police (SWAT) troopers:
SG15-SW03        Armoured Police sniper/marksman teams - 2 each kneeling
and prone teams, each of rifleman and spotter with binocs (8 figures)
SG15-SW04        Armoured Police Command/Specialists - officers with
pistols (standing and kneeling), kneeling Comms operator with datapad and
figure with Door Breaching Ram (8 figures, 2 each of 4 different)

The next phase in the ESU Naval Infantry range, with more troops in Camo Capes
plus three Heavy Support Weapon packs:

SG15-E16        ESU Naval Infantry SAW Gunners IN CAMO CAPES - 8 figs, 2
each of 4 poses.
SG15-E17        ESU Naval Infantry Special Weapons (Snipers and Portable
Missile Launchers) troops IN CAMO CAPES - 8 figs, 2 each of 4 poses
SG15-E18        ESU Naval Infantry Tribarrel Autocannon teams - 2 guns
with light wheeled carriages, 4 crew figures (2 per gun), plus bonus sprues of
spare ammo cans AND optional gun carriages without bases
(ideal for vehicle-carried "portee" gun teams)
SG15-E19        ESU Naval Infantry Medium Mortar teams - 2 mortar tubes
with light wheeled carriages, 4 crew figures (2 per mortar), plus bonus sprues
of spare ammo cans AND optional carriages without bases (ideal
for vehicle-carried "portee" weapon teams)
SG15-E20        ESU Naval Infantry Anti-Vehicle Missile System (AVMS)
teams - two complete weapon teams, each consisting of launcher (with
optional parts to assemble as 2-round or 4-round system) on light
wheeled carriage, 2 crew figures and pack of 4 reload missiles

...and last but not least, the Heavy Support for the Islamic Federation
forces:

SG15-IF16        Islamic Federation Tribarrel Autocannon teams - 2 guns
with light wheeled carriages, 4 crew figures (2 per gun), plus bonus sprues of
spare ammo cans AND optional gun carriages without bases
(ideal for vehicle-carried "portee" gun teams)
SG15-IF17        Islamic Federation Medium Mortar teams - 2 mortar tubes
with light wheeled carriages, 4 crew figures (2 per mortar), plus bonus sprues
of spare ammo cans AND optional carriages without bases (ideal
for vehicle-carried "portee" weapon teams)
SG15-IF18        Islamic Federation Anti-Vehicle Missile System (AVMS)
teams - two complete weapon teams, each consisting of launcher (with
optional parts to assemble as 2-round or 4-round system) on light
wheeled carriage, 2 crew figures and pack of 4 reload missiles

Check back in the next day or two to see if they are uploaded and ready to
order! Thanks for reading.

> Jon Tuffley wrote:

Wow. Can't wait to see what kind of cool stuff will appear on the webshop.
You're clearly going with a big pile of new releases for Salute.

Anything else in the pipeline that might make anonymous vacheads happy?

Cheers!

> First off, an ALL-NEW RANGE: The Brethren of The New Light!

Crazy cultists?

Well, that depends on your point of view….. ;-)
The Brethren are troops from a strongly religious background, somewhat
inspired by the concept of the "Friendlies", the colonies of Harmony and
Association, in the Dorsai books (which I've recently been re-reading
for the first time in twenty-odd years, very good stuff for colonial
light infantry actions!).

*ahem* Now about us 'anonymous vacheads[sic]'...

Doug

> On 30/01/2017 00:34, Jon Tuffley wrote:
Does this mean that there's the possibility of some not-Dorsai to fight
the Brethren? <hint, hint...> Though, to be honest, I'm not sure how you'd
tell they were Dorsai (or not <g>) other than by stats. Of course,

some of the vehicles, especially from The Tactics of Mistake -- the
helichair or whatever it was called, the underwater dredger and the like

-- could be interesting.

Phil, who wouldn't mind some Dorsai-style ships as well

The difficult bit, Phil, is that Dickson's descriptions of both troops
and hardware are quite sparse as I recall - I've got no clear mental
image of what the ships would look like, let alone things like the
vaguely-referenced tanks (which appear to have energy weaponry, but
that's about it - as I recall these are never even seen by the
protagonists in the books, they are just an unseen threat advancing in the
distance). The device you're referring to is the "Electric Horse", I
think, which is probably one of the best-described bits of tech, as
"like a wheel-less bicycle frame hung between two rotors"…

There are some drawings of Dorsai troops in one of the peripheral books
"Spirit of the Dorsai", which has a lot of rather nice "arty" drawings
in it - they depict the uniforms and other clothing as rather
"retro-60s-futuristic", helmets with bubble visors, very "ray gun"
looking weaponry etc., and I don't know if you would want to consider those
drawings as "canon" or just as some irrelevant fluff to illustrate the
novel….

My feeling for the Dorsai themselves would be that any reasonable
mid-tech troop types not in full combat armour would do, maybe the FSE
(helmeted versions only)….?

Jon (GZG)

On 30 Jan 2017, at 17:07, Phillip Atcliffe <atcliffe@ntlworld.com> wrote:

> On 30/01/2017 00:34, Jon Tuffley wrote:

> On 30/01/2017 19:29, Jon Tuffley wrote:
drawings in it - they depict the uniforms and other clothing as rather
"retro-60s-futuristic", helmets with bubble visors, very "ray gun"
looking weaponry etc., and I don't know if you would want to consider those
drawings as "canon" or just as some irrelevant fluff to illustrate the
novel…. Probably a bit of both. There was quite a variety of weapons in
the books, from the big, rather bulky "dally gun" in Tactics of Mistake to the
gauss rifles more commonly seen in the Donal Graeme era, so a few
"ray guns" combined with a lot of slim rifle-style weapons could work. I

don't remember much about helmets at all, but I'd expect them not to be great
big bubbles; again from memory, unlike, say, Starship Troopers, Dorsai
soldiers didn't use radio communications much within units, making do with
hand signals, whistles and the like, so headgear would probably be like modern
troops or even lighter due to better materials.
> My feeling for the Dorsai themselves would be that any reasonable
You're probably right, but we'd never get anything if we didn't ask. <g>

If you were going to put out almost-Friendlies, it seemed a good idea to

enquire about not-Dorsai too. We live in hope...

Regards, Phil
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