Posted by Xantippos on 11 Dec 2013, 18:32
I have to disagree really. At least in my case, (and I have broad interests) not many interesting sets have been released this year (I had big difficulties choosing what sets to buy for my birthday this december).
Maybe I am too exigent, but when I wanted something really different (no more versions from something already made) there was very little choice, and I nearly didn't buy any recent soldiers this year.
I would like to see really a chart showing all the sets released this year, but I think, the only sets released this year I've bought are the RedBox Irish Troops, the Lithuanian Infantry, and the Hungarian and Italian infantry for winter in Stalingrad.
My main interests is ancient (from Sumer to the Fall of Constantinople), then more or less the "Napoleonic" era, which I stretch from 1700 till 1914, and WW2. But I ask to each set that it is really different, depicting some soldiers not depicted before, not terribly similar to some others, and in a way which is not identical to another set (like some Hat sets that seem the same even if they are different nationality/tribe). And that is hard to find.
All the same, if WW1 or Modern are nicely done and very special can interest me too (like the Orion Chechens or Vietcong troops). And I even buy something like Cossacks between Medieval and Napoleonic.....
I just miss the old days where each time I went to the shop, HaT or Caesar had made something like Dacians, or Bedouins, or Chin Infantry, which was never seen before and very special.