Agema Republican Romans - A Review

Strike a pose! Figure from the command metal blister. 

Admittedly Republican Romans have nothing to do with black powder wargaming, if not perhaps for the lead they allegedly used as seasoning(!) on their food in ancient Rome.

As mentioned, I allowed myself one off the chart and out of project context purchase at Salute.
When looking at Agema's blog in the weeks leading up to the London show, it became clear that their new Republican Roman plastics would be that particular one.

Nicely done: The front side of the box 

Packaging:
Lovely layout on 4 color box. The back offers text explaining the different troop types and their tactical role on the battle field. I love that kind of stuff, gets your imagination going. Nice!


Back side of the box.
Examples of figures and text to cover the troop types.

Sculpting:
Being a plastic sprue from talented Rendera, it offers considerable quality and the much appreciated natural style sculpting. Details are crisp and clear, even on feathers, weapons etc.


The Legionaries spure

Size:
The figures measure 28 mm from foot to eye. 30 mm from foot to top of the head.
Tall, slender and natural looking figures.
I'm not sure how they'd mix with earlier metals from other makes, but I'm sure they will blend nicely with Warlord and coming Punic range from Victrix.

Price:
A box of 40 plastics would set you back by GBP 25,00.
Thats GBP 0,62 per figure. Not bad at all, but such are the pleasures of plastic.
Metal blisters are prices at GBP 6,00 for packs of 4 (GBP 1,50 per figure)
And GBP 10,00 for packs of 8 (GBP 1,25 per figure)


Selected miniatures from the command blisters

Range:
At the moment Agema offers a boxed set of 40 Legionaries (16 Hastati, 16 Principes and 8 Triarii), boxed set of 16 Velites, two metal blister of commands, slinger, leves, archer and a blister of penal legionaries. Also they've announced an "action pose" blister pack of legionaries to add extra animation in the ranks. They're to off to a good start in other words. On their website they mention future plans of Carthaginians, different allies and the coveted war elephants.


Close up of the packaging: the different troop types.

Fluff: 

Agema offers a modern and very nicely done website with online shop, pictures of painted models, articles and a connection to their Facebook site. In addition the products them selves come in cool packaging with historic info. A very decent job indeed. 

Command figure from the back. 

Clear details makes painting so much more enjoyable.

Rating: 

9/10. 

Agema brings to market excellently sculpted miniatures, and range comprising core troops in affordable plastic sprue (allowing gamer to really build those armies without the wife getting cranky), and command plus more exotic units in metal blister. The range seems to be be in expansion and is supported by a good online resource in their company website and Facebook.

What's not to like?

I'll reserve the 10 points for that war elephant then :0)

Thank you for reading!