The Dacians are Celts!

[Targa]

I have built several Warlord Celtic warrior boxes. I was very surprised today when I bought a box of Dacians and opened them up to find that they are the same figures as Celts. There are extra metal leader figs and bits such as heads, torsos, shields, and a few falx, but the core is 30 plastic Celts. The same shield transfers for the Celts are also in the Dacian box and there are no extra Dacian decals for the metal Dacian shields. I don't believe it would be possible to build a unit that looks like the pics on the box from the contents of the box. In fact, I know so because the picture on the box has Dacian decals and the box doesn't have any. Was this a glitch? Is it the same for the Germans? I feel a bit snookered.

[Paul @ Warlord Games]

Yes it is a glitch - you should have had a set of Dacian decals in the box.

Drop us a line to info@warlordgames.com and we'll send you some out.

[zedeyejoe]

Yep it is the extra metal bits (and transfers) that make the Dacian box different to the Celts.

This is the sort of unit you should end up with


and for Germans

[Paul @ Warlord Games]

I'll throw in a sneaky teaser here - LOADS more Germanic releases on the way. We'll preview them during December some time - you'll LOVE these...

[Centurio Marcus T]

Ahhh progress on the Germans, been waiting for this for a long time Will be another usefull addition to my DBA armies i have the Dacians and Celts and never got the Germans but with some good additions i may be tempted

[carvel2]

Looks like I'm going to have to rig demolition charges on my Roman bridge!!!!

[Centurio Marcus T]

The germans wouldnt bother with a bridge theyd just swim to fhe other side and burn it to stop the Romans using it

[mikeland]

:lol: The germans wouldnt bother with a bridge theyd just swim to fhe other side and burn it to stop the Romans using it

Or simply wait for the river to freeze over, poor across and sack Rome!

Back to the OP

All the variations on the celts are based around the basic two Celt sprues. The Celt sprue was designed specifically so that they could be upgraded in this way.

I just wish that WG would sell the upgrade parts separately! I suppose they might see this as damaging the sales of the boxes but personally I would buy loads of the British headsto make a higher percentage of spiked hairdos in my warband. The celt plastic figures are pretty easy to covert and modify to make subtle variations on the poses.

[zedeyejoe]

Seriously in view of the above I thought I would mention Eagle in the Snow, one of the best fictional accounts of ancient warfare I have read. Its got logistics, religion and the tactics involved in the battles to stop the German invasion in AD406
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Eagle-Snow-Gene ... 0297645617
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamanni#C ... man_Empire

[Cubster]

Well, so-called Celtic culture did stretch from the Black Sea to Iberia and Ireland so ... well, maybe not.