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Easter holidays new releases

17th Apr 2025

Many thanks to all who kept us busy at Salute last Saturday, and thanks also for putting up with the tech and payment issues. The show seems to have broken the Internet, which gave us multiple problems. Next year it will be back to a lockable cash box.

We had an entertaining if tiring day, but Salute, as always, lived up to expectations. Congrats to Per Broden and Charles Rowntree for both picking up well-deserved prizes for their outstanding games. I made a fashionably late entrance to the Panel discussion on small scale gaming, but the session was good fun.

There were a couple of recurring questions that came up during the day, but I’ll address those at the end of this piece, as it is new release time.

At long last, the Landsknecht range is complete and now available for sale. You can find all the details here:

They were very popular purchases last weekend, and I am sure that a few of you out there have been anticipating their release. I am looking forward to seeing some BIG formations of this lot. I was asked by Ken Reilly of the Yarkshire Gamers podcast if I thought that a 96 strong unit of pikes was big. ‘Not really,’ I replied. ‘It’s just a single pack.’

The new Teeny Tiny bits and pieces are also now available, and you can find them here:

By the close of play at Salute, our racks were bare of these models.

Finally, the latest WW2 British Aircraft is now out, and it’s a cracker! The famous DH Mosquito. Enough said.

One thing that struck both Lindy and I at Salute was the number of overseas visitors asking about sales to their countries. People from the EU said that they didn’t want to order from the UK as they got hit by extra VAT and ‘Handling charges’. US based customers were worried about tariffs. So…

If you order from an EU country, Baccus is part of the VAT IOSS scheme. This means that you pay VAT when you order and that is it. The package gets sent straight to you with no checks and no additional payments.

While the situation with the US remains…fluid…small parcels sent direct to customer should not be affected. They are far too numerous, far too low value and far too much trouble to inspect. It’s called, ‘De Minimis’. The number of personnel that would be required to go through each and every incoming package would be astronomical, and if there’s one certainty, the number of government employees is no likely to rise in the near future.

That’s all for now. Have a great Easter!