March Release first preview: the Sunland Crossbowmen Unit!

Good evening everyone! ⚔️

Hope you've had a great weekend. Today we want to show you the first previews of the upcoming March 2022 Release and also, we want to talk about what you will see this next month: the Sunland Militia! ☀️☀️

At the beginning when we were thinking about this release, we though that we would love to create one single bit unit for the Sunland Militia, but after give it a big thought, we have decided to separate the unit in three parts with slightly different clothes and style.

1. The Sunland Militia Unit: seven (7) core male Sunland Militia miniatures, three (3) core female Sunland Militia miniatures, one (1) Sunland Militia captain, one (1) Sunland Militia musician and one (1) Sunland Militia bannerman. The Sunland Militia will come with modular heads and weapons, including swords, maces, axes, bows and one-handed crossbows. You will be able to create a melee Sunlan Militia unit or a bow/crossbow Sunland Militia unit, combined with the rest of the release.

2. The Sunland Militia Bowmen Unit: 4 core specific Sunland Militia miniatures that come with specific bowmen poses and modular heads.

3. The Sunland Crossbowmen Unit: 6 core Sunland crossbowmen miniatures with modular heads and specific crossbowmen poses, as you can see in this preview.

This is going to be another big release with +22 miniatures. We are quite happy with it because if everything goes well, we will have almost the entire release ready to showcase before the end of the month. We are doing our best to recover a proper working schedule!

In the preview images you can see the Sunland Crossbowmen Unit, the very first 6 miniatures for the March 2022 Release. Let’s talk a bit about this unit.

To recreate this unit, and to create the Sunland Militia, we have been following some very cool references from several LARPS events around Europe. It is amazing to see the passion and work that some people put on the recreation of medieval and renaissance periods. HERE and HERE you can find some quite inspirational examples.

We have been doing a little research about the crossbowmen soldiers around the 15th and 16th centuries, and it seems that they were mostly mercenaries working for the Empires of that time, so we have decided to give them a different look, more "professional" rather than the "villagers look" from the Militia. We are still debating about the final look of the Militia, because we have seen some very cool references out there, some more armoured that others, so we will probably create a mix between an armoured militia and a villagers militia. 

If you want to learn more about the crossbowmen soldiers:

• Check this brief explanation from History Hit: CLICK HERE 
• Or this article from Warfare Historic Network: CLICK HERE 
• Or this article from Medieval Britain: CLICK HERE 

As always, these miniatures are heavily influenced by their historical representation but created with our own fantasy approach.

Hope you like them guys. This March Release is going to be awesome! ❤️