The Sunland Artillery Battery is here! - DOWNLOAD LINKS
Good evening guys! ⚔️
*First of all, there is a ton of photos and a few videos in this post, more than usual, sorry for that*
The engineers from the Mergenheim Engineering School have been working very hard the last couple of weeks to have the artillery pieces ready for the first deployment in the land of the Sun Emperor.
The Sunland Artillery Battery is composed of:
Sunland Imperial Cannon
Sunland Imperial Mortar
Sunland Imperial Volley Gun
Five Artillery Crew
Barricades and pieces
But this is not everything. Some imperial merchants returning for oriental lands have been in touch with the scholars from Mergenheim, and they'va been discussing a new weapon they've seen along their travels, a weapon that launched some kind of gunpowder inside a cilinder called 'rocket'. The engineers, working along with some miners and alchemists from the town, have also discovered a forgotten stone that can bring some rare arcane power, and it can be concentrated inside some kind of mechanism to launch a powerful arcane attack over the enemies of the Empire of Sun. But they only have a prototype, we'll have to wait til October 2021 to see what kind of creation the engineers will do.
We have also updated the front piece of the Wittemberg Wagon we did for the past August 2021 Release to be able to place the Artillery Pieces inside the wagon.
All the miniatures and artillery pieces are being pre-supported at the moment and they'll be available very soon.
We're finishing the last thing for this September Release and everything will be done! This last piece is more like an artwork rather than a miniature... in some way. We are very excited about it and we'll be able to show the preview very soon!
Hope you like it guys. We read you as always!
Comments (57)
love it but will be awesome some extra sculpts of crewmen/woman
That artillery with the gabions and crew is amazing! Thank you.
Very nice, and just what I need for a special scenario in the narrative Mordheim campaign I am working on. (A Silence the Guns scenario.) Though it would be nice if there was an alternate crewman holding a shell big enough for the mortar. (As is, I will be ducking the issue by not having anyone holding a ball.)
Great job on the artillery so far! Something we REALLY need besides the rocket battery though would be a set of draft horses and small wheeled limber to move the artillery around the battlefield as well as a general purpose ammunition and supply wagon. The idea of somehow lifting heavy metal guns like that high into the war wagon to transport them seems a bit absurd and the recoil of firing one in the wagon would likely turn it over. I could imagine swivel guns mounted on the wagon which would be more powerful than regular muskets. A generic 16th century supply wagon should be considered a "must have". One inspired by the beautiful Landsknecht wagon made by Elastolin (which you can readily find images of on the internet) would be perfect. Also consider additional, different posed crew for the rocket battery, and a few sappers and miners with digging tool for building gun emplacements and siege trenches. I hope we will also see some period tents, ranging from large commander tents to primitive hovels of the poorest soldiers. Soldiers in camp, drinking, eating, playing cards, etc. would be a wonderful addition too, not to mention some camp follower wenches as well!
I love the gabions. Such a nice extra for Siege battles :) I'm really looking forward to these. Any chance we might see a smaller war wagon with engineers trying out new weaponry? Man catchers, multi barreled guns etc?
look, nobody wants to admit they're going to be painting and playing empire in perpetuity, but here I am..... outstanding work as always. your team is the reason I got into 3D printing.
Thank you very much Alexander! Hope you like the future miniatures too! :D
haha lol ich have a 4000k Point Empire Army but i think i sell them and Print an new one with your Designs !
Incredible work.
Thank you Paul!!
Top merci! Je valide aussi les GIF car pour visualiser c'est super!
Thank you very much Benjamin!
Love the models (even if I am not a big fan of Empire/Early Modern troops, these are amazing sculpts!) But I want to give an extra bonus for the gifs. This is really a direct and honest way to show the model's preview, one of the best I have seen recently. Little flash, a lot of bang.
Thank you Antonio! We'll try to create those turn around for future special units and miniatures! :D
Love it!
Thank you Karol!!
what units are still missing for Sunland ?
We still have to create one cavalry unit, one special cavalry unit, some militia units, war priests... and this is only for Sunland, the Empire of Sun is composed of three other factions!
I absolutly love it !
Awesome, can't wait to print it! :D
Thank you!! They are now available to download in the Archive :)
that is an impressive looking array of firepower, love the implacements, gabions etc, so its not just a few guns with crews, scrollwork on the cannon barrel looks mint aswell
Thank you very much Toggers, glad you like it! :D
Outstanding work. Lots of character, love the barriers
Thank you very much Nathan!
I love the wheels! With their "armor" she'll be great on the war chariot.
Fantastic addition to an ever growing army, thanks guys, they look amazing.
Thank you Eamonn! Glad you like them! :D
Looks awesome, I'd love to see some more themed crew for each gun but even with that said it looks great!
Thank you Andrew! Probably in the future we will be able to create more artillery crew for these weapons and for new ones!
Increíbles!
Muchas gracias Alberto!! :)
Oh my God ! Better than viagra Oo! Printers READY !!!!!!!!!!
hahah thank you very much Yann! The pre-supported miniatures will be ready very soon!
Looks awesome, glad you're modifying the wagon as I was going to have to try and bodge it to do it myself. All looks awesome, super happy with how you've done this whole range.
Thank you very much Liam! Yes, we though that it would be easy to modify the front part of the wagon to make it more cool. We have also created a wood piece to replace the wheels in the cannon, to use it for the wagon, making the cannon "fixed" to the base :)
Your Volley Gun has a big issue but otherwise these look awesome.
Very well done! A bit confused how the volley gun works... looks like the balls feed in from the rear via the hopper, but how does one get the powder in the barrel? 🤔
Thank you Richard! We suppose that they use the mechanism in the back to separate the charger from the barrels, putting some kind of compressed gunpowder disk in between, closing it again and making fire. :)
WOW! You are out of control!!!! Incredible!!! Thank you for all of your hard work - this is awesome!!!
Thank you very much Richard! Glad you like them :D
Oh my god,I thought you were doing a cannon, not the entire empire artillery school! Balthazar gelt would be proud.
hahah thank you Ben! Glad you like them! :D
Looks fantastic, really impressed with everything for this army.
Thank you very much Greg! :D
Awesome! Good work.
Thank you Christian!
I love it! Oh my, these small (or large tbh) dioramas are so cool! You have been busy engineering! :D
Thank you very much Niels, glad you like them! :D
really really really nice
Thank you Phil! :D
My jaw just dropped… ;) Let’s see if I am able to replace „Regis ultima ratio“ with „Imperator ultima ratio“ ;) :)
Thank you very much Alexander! That is a great variation for the cannon! Maybe we can create a new one next month with that letters :)
wow, that looks amazing!
Thank you Phil! We'll try to create a cool arcane cannon for this October! :D
Great work as always!
thank you!! :D