Conquest Games Medieval Archers Review

Finally picked up a box of the Conquest Games Medieval Archers. I've been waiting for this box set, so beware I'm sporting archers now for my armies. They are 28mm scale plastic models like their other kits. This is definitely their best effort thus far with the models, don't let their horrible box art fool you. I do think they like hurt their sales greatly by using such terrible box art. They would in my opinion be much better of not using any art and just have really well painted miniatures pictured on the box.

Lots of nice stuff here, lets go over the contents of the box.

You get 28 miniatures, which includes the command sprue shown below which is the same sprue form their infantry box. It has two of their Norman infantry men and the cool casualty mini you see on the right.

You get 2 accessory sprues that have one body as pictured below. Note that they have put longbows and short bows both on the sprues.

Below is one of the main frames. As you can see the accessory sprue shows up once more in the lower half of the sprue. In the kit there are 6 different bodies, 16 different heads for a total of a whopping 60 heads overall. There are 36 longbows arms, 30 short self bows, 48 right arms (I really love the open hands), 6 left arms with pointing hand.

Below is close up of the one corner. Good detail on these, like I said this is their best kit yet.

One of the few things I did not like were the quivers, but I think I have been able to fix that a bit. The sprue below shows the bodies and heads. Lots of good heads, covering different looks. I think you have some very good selections here. I'm mainly looking for mine to play with my Saxons and Vikings and Dark Ages.

So how do they compare to other manufacturers, well you can see I pulled out a bunch of models.

From Left to Right: Above one of my Conquest Games plastic infantry, Conquest Games Archer, Gripping Beast Plastic Viking, Conquest Archer, Foundry Viking. Below: Gripping Beast Plastic Saxon, Conquest Archer, Gripping Beast Metal, and Perry Crusader. One of the things you will note on the Conquest Archers like their infantry men are the very thick stands. I'm basing on 20mm squares and they barely fit.