This plastic set will give you all the essentials for a siege battle.
Battering rams smash down the gates and mantlets shelter your archers, while ladders and grappling hooks get your warriors over the walls. For the defenders there’s a cauldron of something nasty to pour on anyone who makes it to the top.
The set is designed for Pillage: Sieges & Strongholds, the new siege supplement for Pillage, but it works just as well with any siege rules. It’s a great fit for Dark Age, medieval and fantasy armies.
Both the book and the plastics will be out in very early 2027.
What’s in the set?
Battering rams and cover:
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Large battering ram with wheeled penthouse: a heavy ram slung beneath a roofed, wheeled shed. Build it without the ram and it becomes a covered penthouse that shields troops as they advance on the walls.
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Two hand-held battering rams: one has a carved ram’s head. The other has a choice of two heads: one reinforced with metal bands, or a simple log shaped to a point.
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Archers’ mantlets: one large mantlet and two smaller wheeled mantlets, giving your archers cover from defensive fire.
Scaling the walls:
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Scaling ladders: two styles of 10cm siege ladder.
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Rope and grappling hook: a 10cm length of rope with a grappling hook, for climbing the walls.
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Coiled rope and grappling hook: hangs from a miniature’s kit, ready for the climb.
Fire and defence:
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Fire arrows: lit and unlit, to convert any Victrix archer.
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Metal brazier: keeps a fire burning on the battlements, ready to light fire arrows and other incendiaries.
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Cauldron on a frame: for tipping hot oil, sand, water or lime onto the attackers below.
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Forked pole: lets defenders push enemy ladders away from the walls.