Warlord Games | Epic Battles Hail Caesar | More Sprues & Size Comparison
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- Warlord Games very kindly sent me some more frames for the upcoming Epic Battles Hail Caesar Punic Wars. I wasn't able to cover these in the first video so I decided to record another short one, cover some size comparisons that people have asked for. Also watch to the end to find out to win a full Pike & Shotte set.
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Its a sure sign you're getting old when you get hyped for historicals, and im here for it.
Love it, I must have been born old, already had a Napoleonic army before I heard the word Warhammer.
agreed. but i just seem to enjoy it so much more...
Absolutely! I turned 30 and almost immediately got into WWII models in 1/72...
😂
At the risk of enlarging my backlog i cant say no to more miniatures! Especially from such a great period. That being said, I've also ordered the Hail Caesar boxset so I'm really glad you'll be continuing to cover it.
Best of luck doing the draw by hand!!
😅 Yeah there might be a lot of names on it 😆
Genuinely cannot wait for Punic wars. I am looking forward to your painting vids for Punic wars as your Napoleonic ones were super helpful when I got Epic Waterloo.
Thanks mate 🙂
I've almost finished two starter sets for the ACW and two of the combined Cavalry boxes for Epic ACW. Interesting to see how the scale has crept up. I have some metal ACW cavalry that I got second hand and was disappointed that they looked out of place. I intend to get a starter box for Hannibal and then decide whether to expand the Celts. Thank you.
It’s really interesting to see how much they learnt from the ACW release.
Great video!! Would love to win more ECW goodies!! Looking forward to your next batrep with Martin...please enter me 🍺
I know Martin will be working on some Bat reps, he beavering away on the miniatures right now.
Great vid and some great looking sprues. I'd love to see if the ancients period had an expansion with a Phalangite frame for Epirus or the other Successor states. It would be a cool frame.
The ECW is a great period for this scale. Given the small army sizes you can get away with a 1:1 ratio on the tabletop.
Epirus or the other Successor states, just what I'm thinking, phalanx, Chariots and cataphract cavalry.
It will be interesting to see where they may expand to
A very generous giveaway indeed.
Hopefully someone will really enjoy it 🙂
I would love to participate in the draw for this wonderful gift; thank you very much.
Best of luck in the draw 🙂
Very excited for this but very suprised that the gallic do not get there own box they are already on there own sprues and are represented with enough minis for a box instead of spread over two. Going to be splitting a few boxes for a whole gallic army!!
They may well sell the sprues individually, they do for the other ranges.
warlord games have really been hitting it out of the park with their epic range, low barrier of entry compared to how expensive the hobby can get in other games and not to mention the awesome sculpts theyve done.
I completely agree, a great way to get into a new period or even start historical wargaming
Have to admit you get a lot of bang for your wargaming pound out of Warlord Games Epic scale, they drew me back into the hobby with their ACW set.
And honestly you can't even buy as many 6mm figures for the price😮
Thanks for the video. Enjoying your channel and looking forward to the painting tutorial.
Thanks you 🙂
I cannot wait for the punic wars! so good.
Looks to be a cracking release.
Wonderful video - thanks! I'm a big fan of the Epic size . . . I wrote Warlord a few weeks ago that I felt they should print the sprues with 30mm widths so that the miniatures could be based on 30mm bases and be used with tonnes of additional rulesets. The 60mm widths of the castings make them only useful for a limited range of rules. I feel they would sell more of the sets if the sprues were cast for 30mm widths - they don't even need to include other bases, as fans could buy those. I understand that they would have to recast so many of their products that it is probably not worth the expense at this point.
Now come on for Epic Medieval!
Thanks for the give away, too. Very cool.
Thank you. Epic Medieval (of some flavour) would be excellent.
agreed
Thanks for the review looking forward to doing Punic Wars. Hope they add some more troop types to expand options
I’m sure there will be be more, there’s usually a second and third wave of releases.
Very interesting extra review, hoping to be doing one of my own soon… looking forward to comparing how they paint up too!
So far they’ve been very fun to paint, just need to finish up my first stands.
My first historical miniature wargames was Koenig Krieg with flat lead minis in the 1980's. My mini game buddies are super excited to get this range from Warlord.
Looks like a great release
Can’t wait for your painting guide video 👍
Thank you 🙂
Looking forward to your forthcoming Epic Hail Ceaser videos. Cheers for the info.
Thank you for watching 🙂
Really appreciate you showing the difference in sizes between the ranges. Also appreciate you doing the giveaway.
Thank you 😊
I can't wait to see your twist on painting the Celitiberian Warriors. Thank you for this opportunity to receive the amazing Pike and Shott box set.
Hopefully I can paint them better than I can pronounce them 😅
Thanks for doing the size comparison, very useful!
Glad you found it helpful 🙂
I’ve actually been getting rid of my 28mm stuff, and getting into 15mm. Just printed a bunch of 15mm LoTR stuff.
It’s a great scale for rank and flank stuff.
Great update, is it only possible to take the celts etc as allied detatchments or could an whole force be used?
I’ve not seen the rules or played Hail Caesar before, but can’t see why you couldn’t make whole army though. There may be the need to source other miniatures not provided, but it’s certainly something I’ll be looking into myself.
In the standard Hail Caesar rules there are several Celtic factions such as the Gaul's, Britons, Celtiberian etc. that are available to play.
I've seen it said by the Warlord account on TH-cam that the Epic rules are essentially the same core rules at heart so I don't see why they wouldn't be available rules wise.
As for models in the Hannibal box at least, there is Celtic warband units, skirmishers and cavalry which are the majority of Gallic units at least.
From a quick glance at the army list book it appears that the core difference in Gallic units is keywords that make them from different tribes and alter their statistics as opposed to different models altogether.
Hope this helps 👍
I was really sceptical when they first showed the ACW epic battles sprues but now I'm totally hooked on it :D It's a really great way to play huge battles when you don't have room for more than a 4x6
Absolutely, it’s a great set of releases, and Pike & Shotte and this one seem far better suited to 6x4 tables as well.
Thanks for the comparison. I'm looking forward to seeing your painted units.
Thank you 🙂
Beautifully painted miniatures, especially the Pike and Schotte soldiers.
Thank you 🙂
Thanks for the video. Really looking forward to this release - my favourite period and theatre by far. Scale/size comparison was really useful too. Cheers, Steve😁
Thank you for watching 🙂
Looking forward to the new Epic Punic Wars release, have enjoyed painting the Epic ACW miniatures and always liked that period.
Exciting times, the release looks like a good one.
Really enjoy the painting videos. Thanks for the giveaway.
Thank you 🙂
The size comparison stuff was very interesting. Love the painting tutorials.
Thank you 🙂
Thanks for showing the size comparison. I'm really tempted by Epic Hail ceaser 👍
It’s looking like a great release
Thanks for the great video, I really liked the size comparison. Cheers from Reno, Nevada!
Thank you 🙂
Thanks for this video! Great to get a comparison.
But 'Gallic' and 'Gaelic' are different words for very different people ;)
Yes I need to work on my pronunciation, there will be far worse offences in later videos I’m sure. 😂
Lovely sculpts, great video, look forward to the painting tutorials
Thank you 🙂
Love your videos Stuart nice practical tutorials on a number of periods and army’s that line up with my interests- keep up the great work!!
Thank you 😊
I'm enjoying your epic content. Especially while painting tiny French men. Keep the videos coming.
Thank you 🙂
The Romans look fine and disciplined, but really impressed with the rag tag horde look they've managed to achieve with the Celts. The paint job to do them justice looks daunting though...
Yeah I’m hoping I can find a method that does them justice, but also isn’t too taxing.
cracking figures. And to think 20 years ago it was all metal....
I know crazy isn’t it
Excellent video, very useful size comparisons between the various mini lines, thanks for that! Also, wonderful giveaway, so generous! I'm a big fan of Warlord Games Black Powder & Hail Caesar rules but don't have any Pike and Shot armies, so very excited about this opportunity. Good Luck everyone!
Thank you and best of luck in the draw 🙂
I really like the look of the epic range and the Punic wars, but having already painted over 100 Gauls in 28mm this year and about to start on some Romans, I’m more excited for Pike and Shotte! Thank you for putting out some great content Stuart. I’ve really been enjoying the Old World stuff you’re doing, I’m currently working on some Dwarfs for Old World gaming.
I can completely understand why you wouldn’t want to paint the same armies again in 15mm 😅😆. Thank you for the kind words about the content, and good on you for the Dwarfs (sad they didn’t announce the pre-order today). Best of luck winning the P&S set 🙂
Epic Hail Caesar is looking great, especially love the new ranking system for the infantry. Will be back for more!
They’re lovely little sculpts
Great covergae of the Warlord Range and very excited about the Hannibal starter, it'll be my first Ancients armies.
For me as well
Epic hail Caesar looks great but just started collecting HC in 28mm
Maybe one for the future then 🙂
The Punic Wars models look great, but I still have to finish building out pike and shot...
Yeah I may have quite a bit of ‘previous epic’ knocking about 😅
Great info many thanks
Thank you for watching
Looking forward to the EHC painting videos.The minis look awesome at that scale.
I’m really excited about doing all the painting 🙂
Fantastic paint jobs and a very nice give-away. I'm watching all the videos to try to decide between Push of Pike and Punic Wars. Or maybe just to decide which to do first.
Well if you win the set that might help the decision 🙂
The epic HS look great, I will be up for a new project soon so this may be it. Keep up the good work. 👍
Thank you 🙂
Thanks for showing off the scale. When I first moved to the UK, I bought the Carthaginian PACTO box, which is 15mm. Would be interesting to see how they go together. Unfortunately all of mine are based on 80x40 bases. Do you think these ancient strips would fit? Is it possible to convert the strips and make them smaller like others did with ACW?
Well the strips are designed for 60mm x 30mm, but I’m sure some people will cut them down. I’ve not tried though, and the 3 rank Romans will be tricky.
Ah, will use the affiliate.
Nice one with giveaway. I've got hannibal on preorder.
Thank you 😊
Hi Stuart been a while since I've looked in but have been busy with life,the napoleonics are looking good thanks to your advice on TH-cam which has also benefited me in painting up 4 KINGS OF WAR & 1 OLD WORLD armies. Missed out on the pike and shot much to my dismay as it was my first wargames army many years ago,don't know much about punic wars so may be worth a look so will watch further vids with interest hope you enjoyed your holiday 😊
Thank you Graham 😊
I love the Waterloo stuff, so Pike & Shotte is right up my alley. The best part is it's all Epic scale! (I bought myself the Bonaparte's army set for my 50th birthday as a miniatures wargaming milestone 😛 ). You do great videos!
Thank you 😊
Hey, not sure if I was supposed to be able to access the video (you said in the video itself that it's supposed to go up on Sunday) but I love what you're doing here! I'm a massive Roman Republic-era fan (I'm studying Classics) and im actually working on a large essay about the period at the moment so to see this covered here is great!
I'll be honest, I'm only really commenting to get an entry because I recently started getting interested in Epic Historicals (I've been playing Epic Warhammer for a while now). Also, I live in South Africa so shipping would probably be an issue, but I may as well throw my hat in the ring😅.
Much appreciation, and looking forward to your continued coverage😁!
Yeah not sure why you’ve been able to see it, it’s unlisted, very odd. But consider yourself entered 🙂
Thanks Stuart for the vid. I’m looking forward to buying this 😊
Thank you for watching 🙂
Really hyped for Romans and Elephants, definitely making a celtic force.
I’m tempted by a Celtic force as well.
Quite the generous giveaway! Ive found the warlord epic stuff really interesting but a little too expensive to pick up amongst my other hubby projects. Fingers crossed!
Best of luck in the draw then 🙂
Interesting video Stu. The horses look great.
Of all the Warlord epic ranges I'm not 100% sold on the Hail Cesar range. Instead i prefer the ranges from Cromarty Forge.
The Comarty stuff is lovely, and the 10mm scale works very nicely.
Awesome Vid as ever. Would be good to see the Epic Hail Caesar range up against the Kallistra Gauls. I've used some of their ACW with Warlords epic ACW. Are you going to be trying any different basing methods? Looking forward to the painting guides 😀
I have some ACW Kalistra as well, not sure I’ll be getting any of their range for this though, but I’m sure someone will do a comparison. As it stands I’m planing on just basing as standard, but I may change my mind.
I’ve been waiting for hail Caesar epic scale since it was first announced. Very pumped!
I think it’s going to be a great release
Warlord Games have done it again as I will definitely be buying into Epic Hail Caesar, I've already got the ACW and Waterloo sets but never picked up the ECW set. Really interested in the Gauls from this range.. Keep up the great videos.. 👍
Thank you 🙂
The Epic Battles series is really a great range! Im hoping that in this range they widen it to inlcude Alexander's Army. Looking forward from these sets to put together a Roman Civil War campaing. Thanks for all you do with these! Oh, on the Pike and Shotte, what would you suggest for Irish units for Cromwell's invasion of Ireland?
Alexander would be great! As for Cromwell’s invasion I’m not sure, not my area of expertise I’m afraid, not without some good research.
Interesting stuff Stu. Got my hands on the epic Hail Ceasar frames yesterday.
Ah excellent, can’t wait to see what you do with them.
Great video and nice size comparison between the Epic ranges. Warlord have made a lot of improvements since the ACW range, but I am enjoying working on my Confederates for CrackCon :)
Best hope you don’t win then 😂
Think, that this Hannibal set could persuade me starting looking at Warlord Epic. Not really my scale but looks fantastic❤ Thank you for sharing this.
It definitely seems to be tempting quite a few people to try the scale.
Have watched all your WG Epic content. Very much looking forward to the Punic Wars stuff, it’s one of my favourite periods. The big sets are unfortunately a bit too rich for my hobby budget. And since sample sprues are hard to come by (WI can’t send them to Continental Europe for some reason), I’ve never seen actual Epic minis in the flesh. Have been eying the “division” sets for some time. But if there’s a chance to win a set I’m in 😄
Thank you for watching, and best of luck in the competition!
Normally I am following your warhammer the Old World videos, I'm a big fan of those. But now I'm tempted to get a closer look at the Warlord Games Epic Battles.
They’re great games, and all use rule sets written by Rick Priestly, so have an element of old Warhammer in them to a certain extent.
Nice one man. Always enjoy your tutorials. Love those pike and shotte sprues!!
Thank you .
I've been looking forward to this period since they released ACW. Also just started painting pike and shotte, so win win.
It’s great to see the range of periods expanding.
Keep looking at warlords epic stuff, this set is giving me BIG rome total war flashbacks!
Oh yes absolutely!
Woot, looking forward to a Roman Painting guide x and the possibility to win Pike & Shotte, amazing :)
Good luck Lewis 🙂
I’m still working through my Epic Battles ACW starter set but would love to win the Pike and Shotte starter 😅 I love this scale and they look amazing when ranked up on the tabletop ☺️
Best of luck in the draw 🙂
Every epic release seems to improve on the previous one, really respect to WL Games for that. I'm so tempted both with Push of Pike and Hail Caesar...even though my pile is already ginormous.
They’ve been very good at learning from each release, they’re definitely improving each time.
Punic Wars sounds cool. I'm guessing they are going to do Ceasar's Gallic Wars later.
I’m not sure, but would be very cool of they did.
Good vid to see sizes between the epic throughout the years. I just grabbed my Montrose Starter today and looking at grabbing the Punic Wars. Just not sure what bundle to buy for Punic, haha.
There’s so many to choose from, I’m not sure what I’ll be getting yet.
I think Hail Caeser is definitely one of the more visually impactful "Epic" scale games Warlord puts out. Love the mix of vibrant tones that contrast with the earthy metals
Yes absolutely, they’re going to look great on the table.
Not played any of them yet but these epic games from Warlord look great, I'm especially excited to check out the new Hail Caesar game. Having said that, I'd be extremely happy with a Pike & Shotte starter set. Perfect for some ECW action, or the War of the Three Kingdoms as we prefer to call it north of the wall ;-)
Best of luck in the draw 🙂
Thanks for a closer look at the sprues. I'm keen to see how you paint them up!
Also, how're you finding the smaller scale miniatures compared to 28mm?
It’s really nice to change between the two scales, some changes in approach (more about what final level I’m happy with), but mostly similar techniques.
Would love to be entered in the draw. Very excited by Epic Hail Caesar , but couldn't invest in Pike and Shot as well! I am hoping for Greek and Persian armies from the time of Alexander to come through, perhaps in second wave and so may only buy a couple of battalions and the rule book than go the whole starter set big box!
Greeks and Persians would be a fun addition for sure.
Thanks for the comparison, it would be interesting how they compare in size to Corvus Belli or Xyston figures which have a large range of Punic War figures.
I’m looking forward to seeing some comparisons of other ranges, unfortunately I don’t own any to do my own.
Very hopeful that the Hail Caesar Epic stuff is close enough to my 15mm stuff to be used with it, and it looks like it might be.
I hope it does as well, I know it will make a lot of gamers happy if they can mix and match with existing ranges.
Been into historicals since I was 10... enjoy the epic scale, but why they kept the frontage and ranges the same as the 28mm rules was a miss. Our group adjusts that to do what you should at the smaller scale... play bigger battles.
Yeah I think I agree to a certain extent, it suffers most in Black Powder, ECW works well with the scale and basing. I think the bases and strips are designed with visuals in mind first.
Is anyone else considering using them for 25mm DBA? 60mm frontage and all.
That sounds like an interesting idea, I’ve not played any DBA since about 1995.
Looking forward to epic hail sesar. Thank you for the reviews and painting guids.
Thank you for watching 🙂
Between Cohors Cthulu Tactics on KS, a Byzantii Darklands army, and Foundations of Rome showing up, my hobby seems to have taken a serious turn towards Roman history & alt history, so can easily see me picking this up in the near future, if not on preorder
You’ve definitely got a theme going on there!
Nice video. Looking forward to seeing these miniatures painted.
Thank you
I'm really looking forward to the epic hail cesar box set coming out, it's my favorite period. Thank you very much for showing the difference in scales. Great video, thanks! 🤗
Thank you for watching
The new figures seem to be close to 15mm, as you say. Will be interesting to see if the blocks are used in other game systems. Can't see me going for them as I already have an extensive 15mm collection for DBA and MeG. I like the Napoleonics as they can be used as is, whilst painting them up.
I think as long as the basing can work the other games systems should be fine.
Great video, thanks for sharing! One wee point on pronunciation though - it's Gaa-lik not Gay-lik.
Thank you 🙂
I really do hope that Warlord expands this epic ancient line into Greeks, Persians, Dacians, Britons, etc. If I had the dosh to purchase another Hannibal starter, I'd do so, but I'll be happy with what I did manage to pre-order.
I’d love to see those expansions for sure.
I can't wait to get the big box for the Epic Hail Caesar. I've been wanting to do a massive Carthage army for a long time. I'm going to get so many elephants.....
The elephants are so cool
Thank you for this review. Saw a Salute preview and was unsure about the bespoke size, but now I'm committed!
Thank you for watching 🙂
Love the channel, looking forward to the Roman painting tutorial
Thank you 🙂
Hey Stu! Thanks for all you do for the hobby, I love your content and very happy to be a patron.
Looking forward to the Roman content!
Cheers mate 🙂
Just a minor nitpick: They are Gallic Celts (i.e. Celts from Gaul) Celts not Gaelic Celts. Of course one could probably use these miniatures to represent other ancient Celts.
edit: I did later see you were doing a giveaway in the comment section of this video. So now I feel like a bit of an ass for leaving such a nitpicky comment.
😂 Nothing to worry about, I took it in good humour, and it’s an important point. I am of course aware they’re Gallic, but clearly pronounced it incorrectly, so will try and not make a habit of that, though I’m sure I will butcher more pronunciation 😂.
Thank you very much for the size comparison. It is quite useful to get an idea about the miniatures. I guess they might be compatible with true 15mm, mostly by older manufacturers
Yep that would be my guess, old school/true 15s, not so much the newer (closer to 18mm) ones.
Super helpful video!
I didn't know, that the ranges got bigger in scale and am pretty sure that it will be easier for me now, to convince new players.
Thank you!
It’s only a slight increase in size, they’re still only about 14/24.5mm from foot to eye, so a ‘small 15’, but it’s a good increase.
I'm very much hoping we see more Celtic sprues. Love for a chance to make (Little) Caeser's conquest of Gaul
That would be very fun
Just back after a hiatus and nice to see even more new exciting stuff coming from warlord, nearly finished my bolt action US, could be the next project….
Would be a good one, and a nice change from 28mm WW2.
These look rather tempting! I wonder if they'll do other ancients stuff eventually as well?
I really hope so