D&D 5E Warduke, Kelek, Strongheart Miniatures!

The official miniatures sets from WizKids for The Wild Beyond the Witchlight include 'The League of Malevolence' set and the 'Valor's Call' set, and contain a whole bunch of characters from the 1980s D&D action toys set and the cartoon.

The League of Malevolence set includes Warduke (the evil fighter) and Kelek (the evil wizard), as well as Skylla (Ringlerun's former apprentice), Zarak (the half orc assassin), and Zargash (the evil cleric).

The Valor's Call set includes Strongheart (the paladin). Ringlerun (the wizard, who was on the cover on 1983's AD&D Player's Handbook!), Molliver (the good thief), Elkhorn (dwarf fighter), and Mercion (the cleric).

D&D 5E - Wild Beyond the Witchlight Features Warduke & More!

While we've had the back cover text for some time, Amazon has revealed more information about the Wild Beyond the Witchlight! The adventure includes Warduke, a figure dating back to the 1980s, and indicates that all encounters can be resolved without combat. The book also includes two new races...

www.enworld.org

And here's Ringlerun, painted by Jeff Easley for the AD&D Player's Handbook back in 1983!

 

[teitan]

Hey, GW literally charges $9+/mini, unassembled AND unpainted for their "troop" minis. This is about $6 per. Expensive, but nowhere near GW levels of dumb.

$3. I did the maths on the troops. GW is the best way to get hordes of zombies, skeletons and orcs.

 

[teitan]

$6.00 a miniature is not at all unreasonable. Even Reaper Miniatures line of unpainted plastics, which aren't very good plastic mind you, will run you $3.00 a pop at the cheapest level.

Bones USA is really good!

 

[Nathaniel Lee]

$3. I did the maths on the troops. GW is the best way to get hordes of zombies, skeletons and orcs.

It depends on which troops. Some will run you about $3 per mini like you said whereas others will bring you up to about $5 per. I don't know that I've seen any low level troop minis that come out to $9 per, but they're definitely not all cheap. More importantly, though, is that there's significantly more work getting a typical Warhammer mini to a point where it's ready to paint than, say, something like Bones or Wizkids' Deep Cuts. For veterans of that scene, it's probably not much of an issue, but I dare say for most people even $3 for an unpainted mini that you first have to cut out of a sprue and then glue together before even painting (paint's not cheap) is a far worse option than paying $6 for a fully painted mini that's ready to go out of the box.

 

[teitan]

It depends on which troops. Some will run you about $3 per mini like you said whereas others will bring you up to about $5 per. I don't know that I've seen any low level troop minis that come out to $9 per, but they're definitely not all cheap. More importantly, though, is that there's significantly more work getting a typical Warhammer mini to a point where it's ready to paint than, say, something like Bones or Wizkids' Deep Cuts. For veterans of that scene, it's probably not much of an issue, but I dare say for most people even $3 for an unpainted mini that you first have to cut out of a sprue and then glue together before even painting (paint's not cheap) is a far worse option than paying $6 for a fully painted mini that's ready to go out of the box.

No disagreement from me on this post.

 

[TredHed Jon]

Yay Warduke is still a southpaw!

Warduke holds his sword in his Sinister hand

 

[steeldragons]

OMGOMGOMG!!!! TAKE. MY. MONEY!!!

 

[hopeless]

Yes if I could afford that, that would be my reaction too!
And I'm not arguing just agreeing wholeheartedly!

 

[Stormonu]

$3. I did the maths on the troops. GW is the best way to get hordes of zombies, skeletons and orcs.

Sorry, I'm used to the cost of Stormcast & Primaris.

 

[Dungeonosophy]

Hey gang, check out my research into the homeworld of Warduke and the other LJN Action Figures. I started a thread at ENWorld (here), but the preview chapters are posted at the Piazza forum. I aim to post further chapters there.

Mike Gray, author of TSR's 1984 action-figure adventure module, is helping me fill out the existing lore into a complete campaign setting, which he names MOTHERLAND: The World of ADVANCED DUNGEONS & DRAGONS™ Action Figures.

 

[Tonybro001]

Starter Sets for WizKid's pre-painted miniature sets are typically sets of player character adventurers. It is an efficient way for WizKids to sell a package of popular player character minis, without people having to buy randomized blind boosters of minis.

In case this may be on interest to you, I have just updated the Witchlight gallery with all the current reveals for the Witchlight sets:

MinisGallery - D&D The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

Gallery of Pre-Painted Plastic Miniatures Images and Pictures for Roleplaying Games like Dungeons and Dragons, D&D and Pathfinder

www.minisgallery.com

I am sold on the balloon mini even though I could probably scratchbuild / 3d print one