Review of Savage Worlds : Sixth Gun RPG : Figure Flats

Introduction: I find it somewhat ironic that Savage Worlds, an RPG game system that supports miniatures, has unique game settings that, if you play several of them, become expensive if you wanted miniatures for each of the settings. That is, while you'd be able to use your generic western miniatures in both Deadlands and Sixth Gun, it's unlikely you could use them for Deadlands: Noir or Last Parsec. So, while Pinnacle Entertainment Group has miniatures for some of their settings, they also have 3D fold-up "figure flats" so you can have inexpensive paper miniatures for your games — and you don't have to paint them, either!

The illustrations on the figure flats are typically front-views with a silhouette for the back of the figure. The figures only have a white background, and the same illustration is used for a non-unique figure (ie. all the cowboys in the Sixth Gun figure flat have the same picture). The artist is Cheyenne Wright, although you should expect a comic book image, rather than the full art of his other Savage Worlds illustrations. (The Serpentman illustration is nice and threatening, though!) The miniature size defaults to about 25mm, but you can change the scale for larger miniatures. You can see a full-size preview on RPG.now at http://www.rpgnow.com/product/163824/The-Sixth-Gun-Figure-Flats?filters=1600_0_700_0_0

Of the eight page PDF, one page is a cover illustration, three are of human-sized miniatures, and three are one-page overhead views of gigantic creatures. The PDF comes with singles of the unique characters, and five to twelve copies of non-unique ones.

Unique:

• Becky Montcrief
• Drake Sinclair
• Billjohn O'Henry
• Brother Roberto
• Kirby Hale
• Gord Cantrell
• General Oliander Hume
• Missy Hume
• "Filthy" Ben Kinney
• Silas "Bitter Ridge" Hedgepeth
• "Bloodthirsty" Bill Sumter
• "Old" Will Arcene
• Asher Cobb
• Griselda

Non-Unique:

• Cowboys
• Pinkertons
• Husks
• Indians
• Griselda
• Serpent Men

Gigantic creatures:

• Thunderbird
• The Winter Wolf
• Great Wyrm

As a miniature painter, I found these flats to be useful for reference in painting the Savage Worlds Sixth Gun RPG metal Miniatures Set (Becky Montcrief, Drake Sinclair, Gord Cantrell, Brother Roberto, Billjohn O'Henry, Missy Hume, Asher Cobb, and General Oliander Bedford Hume). However, if you don't paint or don't plan to play with these personalities in your Sixth Gun games, you're better off with the figure flats. You can use many of these miniatures in weird west and generic western games, and make multiple copies.