Sheildbreakers: How are they as models?

[Bhrymm]

I'm expanding my dwarven throng and need another 40 or so Dwarfs with Great Weapons. I'm thinking about getting 2 Shield breaker Regiments, but I have yet to see them in person. How do they look? I have the hand weapon/shield guys and love them. Are they mostly similar? Anyone have close up pics of theirs?

Thanks for any help.

[mattjgilbert]

Post 8 in this thread has the two I painted for DKH up close: http://forum.manticblog.com/showthre...att-paints-DKH

[scarletsquig]

They're pretty nice and basically the same style as the ironclads.. the shieldbreaker sprue is only 2 models, so for extra variety, you mix them in with the dwarf ironclads with 2-handed weapons.

The shieldbreakers are posed holding the great weapon upwards, which makes the unit much easier to rank up than a unit with nothing but great weapon-armed ironclads.

[cudasquarius]

They are great models as are the rest of the dwarf range. Easy to add variety to them as Scarletsquig says

[Llew]

I give them a big thumbs up, but they definitely work best with a few of the Ironclads mixed in for variety.

[Bhrymm]

Thanks for the help. I just ordered 2 Shield breaker regiment boxes yesterday. I'm going to mix in at least 12 Ironclads with Great Hammers to increase the diversity. It will be good.

My FLAGS just held a games-for-gamers auction where I sold a bunch of minis, cards and board games I wasn't using and ended up purchasing the 2 regiment boxes, a Tau Devilfish, tau pathfinders and 3 boxes of Dwarf Hammerers(needed to fill in my unit had 25 already). Have a whole bunch more room in my apartment and, once this is all assembled, I should have a full wysiwyg 2500pt GW Dwarf mostly infantry army, a now playable tau army, and enough models to start trying out the King's of War Rules. (I've been a huge fan but (1) I wanted a lot more infantry before I started trying it, and (2) most people in my area are die-hard GW.