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Bit of a ramble this week, but do keep reading...

Sheffield is the home of Baccus 6mm and we are steadily changing our packaging to proudly feature the coveted 'Made in Sheffield logo.

It’s a city inextricably linked with the Steel industry and the manufacture of cutlery. If your only contact with Sheffield is the wonderful film, ‘The Full Monty’, then your impressions will be of a depressed and run-down place of grime and despair. However, the truth is very different, as our home town is a vibrant bustling place and surprisingly green. Very green indeed, with the highest ratio of trees to population of any city in Europe. If you don’t believe me, try looking at the place on Google Earth.
All of which brings me to the point of this ramble, as driving to work this morning, it’s very apparent that the green leaves are steadily changing colour to a riot of oranges, browns and yellows. Yes, Autumn is upon us, and for the UK at least, that means that the busiest time of the year is upon us.

Between now and December we have five wargames shows over a period of just nine weeks. And that is why you will read posts from me repeatedly asking you to get your orders for collection in to us, preferably in good time. It helps us, as we can make sure that we cast things that will sell, and you because we have things to sell that you want. As the saying goes, ‘What is there not to like?’
We have a full slate of new releases to come over the next few weeks, but before more news on that it’s belatedly the time for this week’s magic order number, which stands at #25538.

So. what’s new? The first set of releases will be the GNW Russians. We’ve nearly completed all the required moulds in anticipation of their debut at the Partizan show, but here’s a couple of previews as we introduce some dismounted Dragoons in Kartuz and the Russian Generals. These really are gorgeous sculpts, full of character and animation.

So what comes next? Staying with the GNW theme, the sculptor is already hard at work on a some cavalry to complete the Ottoman range, and these are expected to appear later this year or early 2024. However, before then, our long-term programme of improving older ranges continues. This time it’s the turn of our dependable, but elderly Successors figures. As is our policy, we’ll not just be replacing the older sculpts, but adding to the existing codes. I will be posting some previews in the coming weeks, and I don’t think you will be disappointed.

As you saw in last week’s post the WW2 range is set for additions and we’ve just had some masters arrive for the next tranche of aircraft. In addition to all this, there is a surprise little project waiting in the wings and, wonder of wonder, a brand new addition to our Polemos publications stable.

All of this, and we’re already well into planning for 2024…

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Coming soon to a Baccus shopping cart near you!

I’d like to start this week’s offering by thanking all of the organising team and club members who were involved in the Colours show last weekend. It was really well organised by a team working what is not the easiest of venues to manage. Well done!
Moving on to the housekeeping, this week’s magic order number is #24583. A combination of staff holidays over August, plus some days lost to illness put us behind schedule, but a real effort by the casting team has seen much of that backlog cleared and we are now well on track with getting orders turned around in a reasonable time.

Last week’s Ancient Sumerians has proved to be popular one, and we have got more late bronze age releases planned. However, the next lot of new castings will be from later periods. We are finally getting around to completing the overhaul of the Great Northern War Russian range. There are a lot of goodies in the pipeline, and we are aiming for release of these at the upcoming Other Partizan show in Newark next month. Here’s a preview of the Grenadiers, both on foot and mounted.

We’ll also be releasing a suite of new flagsheets to accompany the figures – in this case for the Dragoons.

Work on the ever-expanding WW2 range continues and after taking a few weeks off over the Summer, you can expect us to be turning the taps on again in the coming weeks.
Here’s a look at some of the goodies that you can expect to see.

As mentioned above, we will be at the Other Partizan show in Newark which is a mere three weeks away. It’s therefore time to get those show orders into us to avoid disappointment.
You can order via our shopping cart, by email or by calling.

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New Release: The armies of Sumer and Ur
7th Sep 2023

As I’ve telegraphed over the last couple of weeks, our latest range goes all the way back to the beginnings of history. Some 6000 years ago, the area known as Mesopotamia became home to a remarkable civilisation that we generally call ‘Sumerian’. It was a civilisation of city states and saw notable innovations ranging from intensive agriculture, irrigation, an organised religion, architecture, literature and written records.

However, these advances also brought with them an inevitable series of rivalries between the various cities, and as they jockeyed for position, the innovations also included organised warfare, wheeled combat vehicles, regular formations, siege warfare and a general tool kit of ways to inflict bodily harm on the representatives of rival cities and ethnic groups.
Although our knowledge of Sumerian warfare is necessarily limited by the sheer number of years separating us and the lack of sufficiently detailed records; a successful king would boast on the numbers of enemy slain, the amount of loot taken and occasionally the imaginatively nasty way of slaying prisoners, there is very little of the nice details that we wargamers thrive on. However there are two excellent pictorial references upon which we can base our concepts of appearance and fighting methods. These are the Stele of Vultures and the Standard of Ur.

I would strongly recommend having a look at these pictures from the past. They offer a fascinating insight into what can, at the same time, be both a familiar and completely mystifying people.

Our new Sumerian range has included all of the options that we feel cover the major interpretations of the Sumerian way of war, and we have also put together an army pack for the popular Hail Caesar rules.
We will have all of the codes available at Colours this coming weekend.

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