So as you may or may not know, I have horses and used to do reenactment riding… here I am….

So as you might understand I sort of know one end of a horse from the other. So I was a bit perturbed when I got sent this picture of one of GW’s mounted blokeys from the Cities of Sigmar range. The lad who sent it was all excited about it… my first thought was WTF is that. Now I know it is fantasy, and I know it technically may not be a horse but seriously that head!

I actually wondered if it was an optical illusion, but if it is it affects all of the range and also from different angles…It also has super long legs. Disclaimer here… the rest of the miniature is really nice… I just don’t get what went so wrong with the Shetland Pony head on the Shire horse body… GW horses, although stylized were pretty good from what I remember. Second Disclaimer… if I tried this it wouldn’t look like a horse, but I am not trying to sell things.

This evening I printed off a horse and rider from Highland Miniatures…

This is one of the Knights I painted earlier on…

And a couple more

Appropriately sized heads.

So was I ever going to buy into Cities of Sigmar… nope… this is not GW bashing … well okay it technically is, but the foot soldiers and even the dogs are really nice, it is actually just the mounts that I have an issue with.

I really want somebody to come on and say woah Steve, they ain’t horses they are the lesser headed Quaga as bred by Sigmar himself. If they do I will happily apologise.

I recognise the skill in what someone produced, I really just wish they had looked at a photograph of a horse in Gothic Plate.