{"id":1112,"date":"2026-07-20T16:19:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tesp.co.uk\/OHam\/WP\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2026-07-20T16:19:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:19:39","slug":"3-d-blood-royale-figure-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tesp.co.uk\/OHam\/WP\/2026\/07\/20\/3-d-blood-royale-figure-list\/","title":{"rendered":"3-D Blood Royale Figure List"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Years ago, Games Workshop did a game called ‘Blood Royal’.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Blood Royale Cover art by Christos ‘Chris’ Achill\u00e9os<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Blood Royale was kinda released at the end of Games Workshops period of more being a Games Publisher and when they focused only one Warhammer related stuff. The Basic core game was released in 1987 and had up to Five players fighting over 13th century Europe, deciding the faith of the to see which dynasty would rule the whole of Europe. The board came with the board, 30 plastic ‘playing pieces’ which were for the Kings and Princes, over 250 little counters which were everything from armies, to famine, rebellions and even trade goods. there were also 96 plastic coins. On top of this, there were a bunch of paper pads for recording details for characters, marriage contacts between houses and IOU notes, as well as various event cards and standard gear of rulebook and dice. All this for only \u00a320!.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each player took one area to start with and had to aim to become the wealthiest ruling family around. This was could be done by arranging marriages, making alliances, taxing you people, invading others and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The game was ‘invented’ by Derek Carver, who had earlier created ‘Warrior Knights’ and had an art team head by Christos Achill\u00e9os, who had long been doing art for GW at the time. The plastics were very VERY basic with just a rough shield shape with had a sticker on them, and the tokens were all card with a picture on them. As a result, Citadel stepped up like they often did at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Back of the box Photo of game with components <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

You could expand the game, in a way, into ‘3-D Blood Royale’ by buying a miniature pack which was a mail-order item. This gave you 67 Citadel metal Miniatures and at the time, only \u00a325 for the deal (that’s about 37p per metal mini. beat that Em4!). Citadel did alot of these deals with Scenario packs, which are great. You get card tokens so you can play the Scenario, but they also sell the metal minis to expand it into a better looking game. Fantastic idea, you do save a bit of money, which just means Citadel makes a tiny bit less, but it was used as a way to help sell the miniatures. In fact, that’s kinda why Warhammer as a game was made in the first place. To help sell miniatures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the Miniatures, there is a ‘how to play using the miniatures’ guide which, mostly doesn’t say much about playing, but does have some bits. It starts off with information on painting them. They were designed to be separated into 5 sets for the five main houses (England, Germany, France, Spain and Italy). Each set had 1 King, 5 Princes and 5 Armies miniatures. If you look at what the flier showed you got, 1 King design, 5 prince Designs but only 2 Army designs. so with the King and Princes, you probably got 5 of each but no clue how they randomly did the Army designs. The rest were the Mercenary Captains and Neutral Army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They have two bits of advice on painting.. the first is… yeah.. the “quick” way where you paint the figures all one colour based on their house, and the Natural Army (and Captains) are Red. They also recommend the Princes, Army and Mercenary army miniatures have their shields numbered with dice marks to show 1,2,3,4 and 5. Interestingly, this method is… something which is kinda awful when you are a miniatures fan but.. back of the Heroquest box. Look at the board mock up with all the plastic minis.. then notice the bases. and the sculpts.. they are the metal prototyped with thick enamel (or close) paint to make them look like the plastic miniatures. what a way to treat the Heroquest prototypes.. They probebly did that with other games too. Though I can’t say I’ve seen any metal Battle Masters prototypes.. mmm. anyone?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They also say the better ‘realistic way’ which for some reason they claim you should only try if you have some experience painting Citadel Miniatures already. Well, that’s no fun. Everyone needs to start someplace. Anyway, they also point you you will fine the Citadel Journal and White Dwarf a good source of ideas for how to paint them the ‘realistic way’ and some articles on how to paint in general.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The basic rules for playing using them is.. well, pretty simple. First, replace the Kings, Princes, Mercenary Captains and Neutral Army card tokens with the metal miniature. wow.. in depth rules there. Next we have the more in detail stuff. The Army miniatures are used to show where the Army IS but not how many there are. You can, at any time, remove any number of the Army counters and replace them with an Army Miniature, but then record how many counters should be there on a Roster sheet which owners of the game (but only owners) have permission to photocopy ^_^; (It’s just a basic grid) the only time you need to reveal how many army counters are in a province is when you are in combat. Otherwise, you can keep that secret. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This appears to be a new ‘play’ method as it does go into some notes on how this new ‘sneaky ploy’ method expands the game and you can bluff your rivals. They really sell the idea of how much the miniatures would greatly improve the game. Not that I think most games aren’t improved by miniatures (I have played games where miniatures are pretty much pointless but oh well, they are something fun to paint ^_^)<\/p>\n\n\n

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3-D Blood Royale Deal Flyer. Photo by ‘Diesel Monkey’<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Anyway. Thanks to former Mail-order troll ‘Diesel Monkey’ on the Oldhammer forum, we have a nice copy of the Flyer for this ‘3-D Blood Royale Deal’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, alot of these miniature deals, might have had SOME original\/unique miniatures, but often had ALOT of other stuff. Lostmini wikia doesn’t have any information on these miniatures and while other places might, I decided, why not spend some time to ID them all? Well.. It’s kinda impossible without having the pack BUT we can do a fair bit of work on it, thanks to the flyer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The deal states five different ‘types’ of miniatures for use in the game and how many of them you get:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • 5 ‘King’ Miniatures<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 25 ‘Prince’ Miniatures<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 25 Army Miniatures<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 10 Neutral Army Miniatures<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 2 Mercenary Captain Miniatures<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    If we look at the flyer, there are are 11 pictured Miniatures with labels, and then a very small image showing a game in progress (of sorts). Of these 11, 1 is labelled as a King, 5 are labelled as Princes, 1 is labelled as a Mercenary Captain, 2 as Army and 2 as Neutral Army. In the centre, 6 figures are clearly shown (a 7th just has the feet) and they appear to be the same as listed apart from 1. However, one if them I can’t quite make out clearly enough to confirm it. He COULD be the mercenary captain.. but it’s just not a clear enough image<\/p>\n\n\n

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    Lawful Fighter, as painted by Colin Dixon<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

    First up: the King: This guy is kinda interesting. This is an ADD41 Lawful Fighters (02). It was in fact released a few months before they lost the licence to ADD stuff. White Dwarf #81 lists this figure as being for F5 Paladin range in Colin Dixon’s ‘Eavy metal page but it doesn’t appear to have ever been released in that series. Nice promotion from Fighter to King.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Now the Princes: The first prince showed appears to be Klaus, C26 Men-at-arms (labelled as 82-10). Like with all of these princes, it was later re-catalogued into the F4 Feudal Men-at-arms range, and later Bretonnian foot knights. This one was ‘Mace 2’. The second really annoyed me. Why? This is Maximillian (82-12), later sold as ‘Mace 5’. What is that annoying? well, however did the past ups wasn’t fantastic with how close they cut the paper in some cases. It looks like this guy (along with a couple of others) had something like Wings attached to the helmet figure but that is just where the photograph hasn’t been cut out that close to the head, so when it overlays the design, it gives the appearance of wings. It took me FAR too long to noticed that. The Third, that appears to be C26 Men-at-Arms (labelled as 82-01) ‘Siegfried’. The Fourth Prince is alot like the third in his name. He is also a C26er (82-09) named ‘Sigmund’, later labelled as Sword 13. The final prince is of course, another C26. This one is Eugen (82-13), later sold as Sword 7. All of these are currently for sale by Wargames Foundry (like alot of these).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The Army: The first is what is very much appearing to be the main source of these figures, C26 Men-at-arms figure, this one Wolfgang (82-05), later sold as Spear 1. Going with him, is Edric (82-07), later released as Sword 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The Neutral Army. Both Neutral Army figures shown as crossbow guys which appear to be from the same dollie and are in fact ”. I’m not sure of any ID for the first one but he is on the Jan 86 flyer of Men-at-arms figures as a ‘x-bow’ (get it?) and most likely what would be labelled as ’86-06′ The second one, of course, from the C26 range as ‘Retainer w. Crossbow’ (3C-05) and.. well, poor guy, no name. He doesn’t appear to have been re-catalogued. Do I need to keep saying you can currently buy these from Wargames Foundry?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    and Finally, the Mercenary Captain. This figure is the c26 Men-at-arms figure labelled as ’86-14′. It has been seen labelled as ‘Knight’, used as Commander Alan Hack, used as ‘Roland Prange’ in the Blood on the Streets scenario set and the base labels him as ‘Sir Terence’. so.. that’s alot of names to pick from. The same dollie was used for a few miniatures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Well.. that was a bit of fun. Most likely other figures in this set where also taken from C26 range. I’m not sure how many doubles you would get with ones like ‘Kings’. That ADD set was a set of 3 different figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In 2005, Fantasy Flight games got the right to alot of Games workshops non-warhammer games such as the before mentioned Warrior Knights, Talisman and Fury of Dracula. Later on, they even teamed up with GW to do a number of Warhammer Spin-offs before dropping the connection, not long after thy became part of Asmodee US. They announced a new version of Blood Royale would be coming out, but after a few years of believed development, the game never got released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    There was one expansion, of sorts, other then the miniatures, that was released for the game. A White Dwarf article in issue #93 by Paul Cockburn and Jervis Johnson added the Medieval Papacy into the game, making the medieval Pope a character and having the power of the church at the time getting involved. This is a NPC character, at first, the pope can be ‘controlled’ by a player, depending on how has a treaty with him, and characters can join the clergy and all kinds of stuff and expands on the very small part it already plays in the game. As I haven’t played the original game, I can’t really fully say how this works out in practice. Other then the rules, the only real thing needed to use this expansion is a ‘vote card’ deck. They recommend taking a deck of cards and use 3 of the fives, 2 tens and the ace to represent ‘5’, ’10’ and ’15’ vote points. This voting is when the pope dies and a new one needs to be elected via a conclave. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    And as I’m here and said about it. Lets look at where you can get these figures now. Well.. as I said, most are available by Wargames Foundry but here are the sets:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Princes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    • Klaus (MED303 – Foot Knights 3)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Maximillian (MED301 – Foot Knights 1)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Siegfried (MED302 – Foot Knights 2)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Sigmund (MED301 – Foot Knights 1 but the Horns appear to be bent to join together)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Eugen (MED303 – Foot Knights 3)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      Army:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      • Wolfgang (MED306 – Spearmen in Gambeson)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Edric (MED304 – Men at Arms 1)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

        Neutral Army:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        • X-bow (MED115 – Crossbowmen)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Retainer with Crossbow (MED115 – Crossbowmen)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

          Mercenary Captain:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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          • Alan Hack (MED101 – Captains)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

            So, the only shown figure you can’t currently buy is the King. It is possible that Foundry do have the King but they haven’t out it out of the collection and molds made. Or it’s possible they don’t have it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            If you want to visit them to buy the figures, Drop my name and they won’t have clue what you are talking about ^_^ I’m not that important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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