This summer's upcoming Skull & Shackles Pathfinder Battles prepainted fantasy miniatures set contains scoundrels and scallywags from the water's surface, but some of my favorite figures in the set actually live below the waves. One of the reasons we wanted to create this set in the first place was to finally get some aquatic creatures into the world of prepainted plastics, and WizKids has done a great job bringing the briny deep to life before our eyes.
Time is very precious on what looks to be a crazy busy Friday (I snuck out of a meeting just to write this, in fact!), so I'm going to keep today's preview short, sweet, and to the point.
Today we're going to talk about fish. It's shark week!
Up first we have, well, a Shark. This guy is Large (though not as large as another shark we'll show off in future weeks). He's mounted on a clear peg so he looks like he's swimming right for you when his figure is placed on the battle grid. You can't tell from the photo, but some of the detail inside this creature's mouth is really remarkable. The Shark is an uncommon figure.
That was a cool shark, man. And here's a cool sharkman. The Wereshark Pirate is a Medium common figure, suitable for building an entire wereshark crew.
A crew of wereshark pirates needs a wereshark captain. Here we have Captain Riptooth, as nasty a pirate lord as you're likely to serve under in the Shackles Isles. Beware! Captain Riptooth has quite a temper, and if you cross him, he's likely to bite your head off! This fine fellow is a Large figure at the rare rarity.
The set also includes an uncommon Hammerhead Shark that had to go back to the sculptors for some minor cosmetic surgery and seems to have escaped photography in the meantime. We'll get an image up of him as soon as we can capture one ourselves.
Don't forget to preorder your Skull & Shackles minis today to make sure you don't miss out on any of these exciting figures!
And that's it for the week. It is now officially safe to go back in the water!
Erik Mona
Publisher
