This is the fourth in a series of reviews of MicroTactix’ new Color Vyllage on the Cheep cardstock building sets.

This set is mostly stand-ups of villagers and townsfolk you can use to populate your model towns or use as hapless targets on the battlefield!

The Tools

All you need to start assembling these figures is a color printer, some cardstock, a straight-edge, scoring tool (I use an x-acto knife), scissors, and some white glue. The PDF is available on RPG.NOW at http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=630&

The Vyllagers set consists of over 80 different villagers (!), 18 livestock standups, and a bonus Church House building, all in glorious color!

Let’s take a look at the models in more detail:

The Vyllagers

Here we have a wide selection of commoners, nobles, miscreants, and other “mundanes” for your village-stocking pleasure. As small sampling of the figures includes city guardsmen, a few thieves and pickpockets, merchants, nobles, a doctor, a smith, pilgrims, a priest, an assortment of tavern-folk and busy-bodies, and even a few adventurers thrown in. You’ll find orcs, elves, and dwarves mixing it up with the predominantly human villagers as well.

The figures are bright and vibrant, and they are easy to assemble. There is a certain amount of humor in some of them, like the ale-swilling orcs and Ittimus the Drunk.

The Livestock

Moooo! All I can see are cows being flung from catapults at hapless English knights...

Movie references aside, these standups are useful and a welcome addition to the set. You can’t have a farm without farm animals, right?

The Church House

This bonus building is on-par with the other color Vyllage-on-the-Cheep sets released so far: easy to build and looks great. The structure is actually two models (a house and a tower) joined together with a dormer over the house. The contrast of the stone tower with the wattle & timber house and funky-roofed dormer make for an elegant model.

Summary

Villager miniatures are often hard to find, so this set should be quite useful to wargamers, skirmish gamers, or role-players looking to fill their fantasy or historical towns and hamlets with everyday folk. Another useful and attractive product from Microtactix.