{"id":4339,"date":"2014-09-05T08:01:59","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T07:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=4339"},"modified":"2014-09-05T12:27:04","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T11:27:04","slug":"mercenary-reinforcements-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2014\/09\/mercenary-reinforcements-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercenary Reinforcements Available"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2014\/09\/mercenary-reinforcements-available\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>The first thing to say this morning is that we&#8217;ve finally caught up with orders again, and (apart from ones that arrived yesterday\/overnight) the order queue is empty (happy dance &#8230; \ud83d\ude42 ).<\/p>\n<p>We <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2014\/06\/mercenary-reinforcements\/\" title=\"Mercenary Reinforcements\">previewed<\/a> more additions to our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/15mmSF\/Mercenary%20Brigade.html\">Mercenary Brigade<\/a> a little while back, and finally we&#8217;re able to announce the release of two of them. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/15mmSF\/Mercenary%20Brigade\/SF15-1502.html\">Sohei hover tank<\/a> provides the Brigade with heavy firepower through one of four different main gun options &#8211; heavy laser, gatling, Discarding Sabot cannon or twin powergun. This is supplemented by a five-pod Manta missile rack and a remote weapon mount on the turret roof.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4349\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2014\/09\/mercenary-reinforcements-available\/sf15-1502\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/SF15-1502.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"720,540\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SF15-1502\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/SF15-1502.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/SF15-1502.jpg\" alt=\"SF15-1502\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/SF15-1502.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/SF15-1502-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Brigade&#8217;s infantry complement ride in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/15mmSF\/Mercenary%20Brigade\/SF15-1503.html\">Magnus APCs<\/a>. These are a &#8216;battle-taxi&#8217; type, with two remote weapon mounts for self defence but no heavier armament.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4350\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2014\/09\/mercenary-reinforcements-available\/sf15-1503\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/SF15-1503.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"720,540\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SF15-1503\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/SF15-1503.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/SF15-1503.jpg\" alt=\"SF15-1503\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/SF15-1503.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/SF15-1503-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Designed by Zac Braham and Kirk Alderfer, both vehicles are available singly, or there is a Sohei platoon pack with crew, stowage and optional main guns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/15mmSF\/Mercenary%20Brigade\/SF15-1502.html\">SF15-1502<\/a> &#8211; Sohei Hover Tank &#8211; \u00a311.00<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/15mmSF\/Mercenary%20Brigade\/SF15-1503.html\">SF15-1503<\/a> &#8211; Magnus APC &#8211; \u00a38.00<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/15mmSF\/Platoon%20Packs\/PP15-1501.html\">PP15-1502<\/a> &#8211; Sohei Platoon Pack &#8211; \u00a331.00<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hammers-slammers.com\/home.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3302\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2014\/02\/slamming-it\/20140209_152244_2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20140209_152244_2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"430,196\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20140209_152244_2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20140209_152244_2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20140209_152244_2.jpg\" alt=\"20140209_152244_2\" width=\"430\" height=\"196\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20140209_152244_2.jpg 430w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20140209_152244_2-300x136.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>John Treadaway has written the Mercs into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hammers-slammers.com\/home.htm\">Hammer&#8217;s Slammers<\/a> universe as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hammers-slammers.com\/hna_1.htm\">Hiroseke National Army<\/a>, adversaries of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hammers-slammers.com\/stewart_1.htm\">Stewart Regiment<\/a>. Not all of the vehicles are available yet, but we&#8217;re getting there &#8211; more Mercenary Brigade vehicles will be released in the next few days.<\/p>\n<p>Decals on the painted models are 1\/300th and 1\/600th Japanese aircraft markings by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.domsdecals.com\/shop\/category_21049948700fed8bc1a9a6059263e7bc\/Japan.html\">Dom&#8217;s Decals<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first thing to say this morning is that we&#8217;ve finally caught up with orders again, and (apart from ones that arrived yesterday\/overnight) the order queue is empty (happy dance &#8230; \ud83d\ude42 ). We previewed more additions to our Mercenary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2014\/09\/mercenary-reinforcements-available\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,39,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-15mm-sf","category-hammers-slammers","category-new-releases"],"views":4371,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/M-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-17Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3537,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2014\/03\/priest-of-the-devil\/","url_meta":{"origin":4339,"position":0},"title":"Priest of the Devil","author":"Tony","date":"March 21, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Every so often we get very lucky. This happened in the second half of last year when Zac Braham approached us with a design for a 15mm hover tank which he'd christened the 'Shaman'. It was based around the concept of the American M551 Sheridan light tank (with which it\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;15mm SF&quot;","block_context":{"text":"15mm SF","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/category\/15mm-sf\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ShamanGallieni.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ShamanGallieni.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ShamanGallieni.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ShamanGallieni.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":7805,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2017\/07\/mercenary-scouts\/","url_meta":{"origin":4339,"position":1},"title":"Mercenary Scouts","author":"Tony","date":"July 7, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Today we're releasing two new vehicles for our 6mm Mercenary Brigade force, bringing the small-scale range into line with their 15mm counterparts. 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The Legion is equipped with a heavy, 18-round support missile pod for heavy indirect\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;15mm SF&quot;","block_context":{"text":"15mm SF","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/category\/15mm-sf\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/LegionWarlockBaldurRelease.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/LegionWarlockBaldurRelease.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/LegionWarlockBaldurRelease.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/LegionWarlockBaldurRelease.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":9900,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2019\/04\/baby-missiles\/","url_meta":{"origin":4339,"position":3},"title":"Baby Missiles","author":"Tony","date":"April 12, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"The 15mm range gets five new vehicles and variants today. 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There is also a new armoured cargo hauler, the Conestoga, which is built on the Baumann\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;15mm SF&quot;","block_context":{"text":"15mm SF","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/category\/15mm-sf\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ShinigamiRelease.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ShinigamiRelease.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ShinigamiRelease.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ShinigamiRelease.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5304,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2015\/05\/6mm-mercenaries-available\/","url_meta":{"origin":4339,"position":4},"title":"6mm Mercenaries Available","author":"Tony","date":"May 1, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Following on from the new 6mm domed buildings earlier this week, our 6mm Mercenary Vehicles are now on the website and available to purchase. 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