“Counts As” Shock Troops? The Eisenkern are Here

The Eisenkern hail from the Iron-Kore universe fluff wise which seems to be basically a Grim Dark German-esque near future environment.

The Eisenkern kits currently come in three varieties (with more on the way later in the year), a Heavy Weapons Team, an Accessory kit (with a ton of sprues that would weigh down the basic trooper box if included) and two versions of the trooper kits.

They are all multi-part 28mm figure kits and can be easily kit bashed with existing models on the market (see below), so you don’t have to worry so much about them “scaling up” to your existing forces.

I really like the bits the accessory kit brings to the troopers, as they can look super loaded down with gear, or just out for patrol with the essentials.  There is also three sweet “mule” models that are included with the accessory kit, which carry the troopers gear or work autonomously to gather intel etc.

Either way you look at it, it’s a GREAT kit to upgrade the basic Eisenkern troopers into specialized troopers (see above).

The first trooper kit is a twenty man set that comes with an extra upgrade sprue, and the second is jut a basic ten man kit.

Best part is the twenty model version is slight cheaper that buying two ten man kits, something unheard of in this industry for some time!

Next up are the Heavy Weapon Teams, that are pretty cool looking and fit right in with the Iron-Core Universe.

The box comes with three distinct teams of Heavy Weapons, that while the weapons themselves are not very interchangeable (besides the weapon crews perhaps), they are still very unique looking and preform specific battlefield roles that we are all familiar with.

Here’s what the normal Eisenkern Models looks like assembled, without any extra accessories followed by several kit-bashes using other more familiar models.

The last picture is a scale reference shot of all the models I made, and the normal Eisenkern trooper.

So far I am very impressed by the quality of these products, from the packaging right down to the models themselves.

The sky seems to be the limit for DreamForge-Games, and one day we may all look back at 2013 as the beginning of something great for independent game developers!

Checkout my review of the  Eisenkern Infantry troopers kits below, and don’t forget even if you didn’t take part in the Kickstarter, you can still get these models now, as wave one is already in stores! -MBG