E19 has two sets: Prussian Infantry Marching and in Action.
For E20 and beyond we have 4 sets: 7YW Prussian Infantry Marching, Action and Command, and the Bavarian Infantry Command set. All already finished and just waiting for release.
Up next after that are the Napoleonic Austrians where we're finalizing the make up of the set, deciding how many shakos, helmets and bearskins to have. These are the only set past stage 5 in the 1/32 range for now.
Meanwhile, we're taking a long look at the posted Greek Hoplites, Balearic slingers and others with an eye to either re-doing them or not at all. The only ancient era we have right now is the Punic War so the only possible usage we have for the Greek Hoplites would be inclusion in Xanthippus's army. Another Carthaginian set being sculpted right now is the Sacred Band, which might be a little early for our Punic Wars but could be an opponent for the Greek hoplites in Syracuse.
Next up would be any of the Napoleonic masters already finished:
Pre-Bardin French marching and command
Post-Bardin French marching and command
Spanish (all sets)
These sets are all at stage 5 already and therefore could be put into tooling queue immediately.
Or we could go with the Byzantines masters, which are all already finished, but lack opponents.
And we haven't forgotten the requests for Napoleonic cavalry and artillery.
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HatBlogger all sounds good :) Im big on Punic Wars myself so would like some Greek Mercs to throw into the mix.
Would realy like to se the French marching & Command sets done {for 1812-1815}
Rob C,
P.s For Artillery Russian Gun & Crew pleeaase,
E20 Great release .
Greek Hoplites vs Greek Hoplites Ther will be very useful.
Really want the Spanish sets
Do not care about Pre-Bardin French marching and command
Post-Bardin French marching and command
If they never happen fine by me.
Really think the Byzantine masters should be done and love the new Hun poses.
Spanish and Austrians, please make them in white or cream color.
Does "Pre-Bardin" mean the Bi-corn hats?
Thank you for the update. Regular progress reports are welcome.
The update leads to some additional questions. In the January 20 post the Russian and Landwehr command sets were ready. Did something unexpected happen to them?
Thus far there has been no firm indication concerning how the Spanish will be organized. Are they going to be MAC or Light/Line/Grenadiers?
Also do you have a status on the SYW Austrians?
The Marching French are key sets, particularly the pre-Bardin set. I would like to see them this year.
I don't really have an interest in the Sword and Sandal era I have never considered buying any of the Punic War sets and can't see myself embracing the Byzantines.
If you want an "ancient" range with two complete sides wouldn't El Cid meet that requirement?
@Scott, pre-Bardin means the tunics with the long tails, either with the bicorne or the shako.
@Rahway,
1) You are correct, I forgot about the Landwehr and Russian command, they are ahead of the Austrians.
2) Not sure what format the Spanish will come in yet. The Spanish are not so simple as they have line infantry, light, grenadiers and command, i.e. a lot of figures.
3) 7YW Austrians will have some pics up on the HaT forum soon.
As you said,do not forget Napoleonic cavalry and artillery.
Pedja T.
"@Scott, pre-Bardin means the tunics with the long tails, either with the bicorne or the shako."
Thank you "hatblogger."
French infantry, then cavalry please.
Ancients - unless you can do a reasonably complete line then don't bother.
Same with 7YW
It is good to get a forward view of what you are working upon and aiming to produce by when. I am pleased to hear that you haven't forgotten altogether the Greek Hoplites and Byzantine Infantry. Both sets look well sculpted. I would definitely be interested in both. In both cases no one else is really in this territory at the moment and able to produce models of this quality so please do not abandon them. Conte made one foray with their Spartans but no follow-up with their Persian adversaries. If you are looking for counterparts for the Byzantines (they look 9-10c)perhaps some muslim cavalry/infantry would be appropriate. For the Greek Hoplites they were often warring amongst themselves but Persians would also be appropriate here as well. I am also looking forward to when HAT is ready to start producing 1:32 Napoleonic cavalry and artillery.
i'd love to see full sets of the italian wars of independence especially foreign legion of 1859 at magenta
I am looking forward to French inf, British inf, French cuirassiers...
FBMS - are you being ironic?
Greeks vs Greeks would be great. Also, Byzantines would be useful with other Dark Age/Medieval figures already out there.
Hoplites is certainly a must, as there aren't decent hoplite sets available. For the slingers, if you are going to redo them, why not make a mix of slingers and bowmen, covering a much wider range of light infantry. Hoplites in a way do not need opponents if you call the set Peloponnesian War hoplites, they can fight each other(multiple sets??). The set of light infantry as mentioned above would be a perfect to combine with it. Just another set of peltasts would make it complete.
Byzantines : they can always be used against existing Turck/Saracen/crusader figures.
Napoleonic cavalry is really something I'm looking out for.
thanks for the good work!
Dirk
Off topic. A reenactor wearing the Avant Guard uniform.
9002 Brunswick Avant Garde
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Cannot wait for the Napoleonic French and allied cavalry and artillery. Those figures would make it easy to create a diorama, now the French footmen have no-one to fight against. I hope that priority is given to those figs, I can see in the posts above that I'm not the only one looking out for them.
Thanks for the updates.
I have a dream! French infantry. With those figures we can have Saxon,Italians, Wurzburg,Neapolitans,Westfalians etc etc.
Scott, those Brunswick avant garde are one of the sets I,d like to see Hat re-do!
I know that they did them already but I,d like to see them redone with the better sculpting and more then 4 poses.
They could be converted to a few other troops also. The first set had funky firing poses with the guns held in a weird position and the heads were kinda small and bad, what would have been really great heads for conversion work turned out to be pretty useless.
Hat could now do these figures better justice with the new greatly improved sculpting!
FISH!!!<"))))><
Still lobbying for Napoleonic Polish infantry with the traditional czapka headgear. This is a unique uniform not previously produced by any plastics manufacturer.
I don't think anyone has ever come out with 1/32 Byzantines. When you do I will buy lots. You will have a market all to yourself. Done in 1/28th a lot, but plastic Byzantines will be such a novelty; am sure they plastic soldiers buyers will take notice. Opponents could be Seljuk Turks or Ottoman Turks or Arabs, Bulgarians, Mongols. The Byzantines had numerous enemies over 900 years. I look forward to buying several boxes of Byzantines.
In addition to the Napoleonics I collect armies of the early to mid-Medieval period, particularly as relating to the Crusades. Italeri produced many boxes of cavalry (Crusaders - 3 sets, Seljuk Turks, Mameluks, Mongols), and Conte produced heavily armoured Norman infantry. However the Byzantines, Seljuk Turkish infantry, and Arab infantry have not to this point been seriously attempted. If you release your Byzantines you can count on me to buy many boxes, and a great many more still if you release their Seljuk infantry foe.
Stephen A.
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