CITY DWELLER MARTIANS
Here we offer a dazzling variety of the most common Martians from nobles to servants by way of a myriad of troop types and the war leaders to command them.
Our City Dweller individuals (C codes) are available individually, Troops (CDMT codes) are more variable. Infantry come in sets of 10 with random variants. Cavalry come in sets of 3. Some codes such as artillery sets (CDA codes) and float ships (CDW codes) come in a standardized sets. Prices may vary.
Codes in italics are not yet available
INDIVIDUALS
Here you will find leaders, personalities, and specialist troops and certain character types. Some like the noble and princess are civilians, some like the war leaders are military specimens, and some like the Venerated One and Weirdlinker are mystical in orientation. Choose from among them to select someone to command, inspire, threaten, and otherwise make for livelier times for your tabletop forces. Or recruit the specialists to bolster your forces and supplement their battlefield capabilities.
CITY DWELLER ARTILLERY
Artillery, being the destructive power that it is, is reserrved the royal forces - at least the well trained crews are. This crew is ready for action, wearing the traditional pointed smock of artillery forces. But to be honest, the figures of these doughty fellows are every bit as usable to crew the guns of float ships, either piratical or honest. Just don't paint them as wearing royal uniforms or you'll find yourself on the wrong side of the Holheem.
CITY DWELLER CIVILIANS
Here we offer selected groupings of ordinary (and some not so ordinary) City Dwellers such as one might meet on the streets of Parroom, or any other Martian city as well. You will find men, women, children, vendors, and packboys as well as a few "colorful" characters
CITY DWELLER TROOPS
The musketeers are the most useful of figures, suitable for portraying City Dweller militias and gun-armed float ship crewmen alike. And since the models do not have open barrels, you can declare the weapons to be smoothbore muskets or rifled muskets at your whim.
The sword and choplott armed Martians are fine fellows, equally suited for use as float ship crew or as canal sailors or even rioting townsfolk or militia auxiliaries. Some are armed with swords, others carry carry the choplott, a traditional shipboard tool and weapon. In ordinary times the choplott serves as a boathook and weed cutter, but in times of trouble it is a deadly polearm.
The Royals are indispensable figures for the Martian potentate: armed and armored soldiers of "royal" regiments, the best of the best, the most disciplined soldiery on Mars. And for your added gaming convenience, the weapons are cast with solid barrels so that you can decide whether they are rifled or smoothbore muskets!
No army of City Dwellers would consider venturing forth without a contingent of aristocratic cavalry to strike hard and fast (and to show the hoi-polloi who's boss). At the request of certain aristocrats from the Holheem's palace, we have gone a little further into the realms of kits and options with our royal cavalry. The Royal Lancers come with an assortment of heads. After all, what aristocrat wants HIS helmet to like everyone else's helmets. Of course, if you want, you can use helmet styles to distinguish particular squadrons on the table top. A lancer carries a scabbarded sword as a back-up weapon. For his lance, we have provided a lance head and left his hand open to receive an ever so slim and elegant wire or brass rod lance shaft (not, alas, supplied by us).
The nomads of the barren places are renowned for their skill as cavalry. Indeed, they disdain fighting on foot. Many holheems, either through pay or ancient alliances, can call upon nomads to provide cavalry troops to their legions. Some of the nomads come with open hands and a choice of weapons.
The Sverdvolk are the true shaven-headed fanatics. Armed with their Martian swords and firm belief that the old ways are the true ways, they are prepared to drive all Earthmen from their planet with fire and blood.
Sepoy units, equipped with Earth weapons and dressed in a mixture of Earth uniform and Martian accoutrements, were eventually raised by all of the great powers after the downfall of the Ccephalids. These City Dweller troops are not always the most reliable troops, but they are indispensible for expanding and policing your expanding Martian interests.
CITY DWELLER WONDERS
City Dweller armies are almost always supported by an aerial element of float ships.
CASUALTIES
Casualty figures are useful for marking the ebb and flow of your battles, but they can also be used as "morale markers" to indicate a unit that needs to make a Morale test according to the Valor & Steel & Flesh battle game rules.
