Ancient Egypt's grip on the collective imagination of the Western World seems never to have slackened in recent centuries, so much so, it's become difficult to innovate when representing such a setting in fantasy games. Jabbro Jones has, however, succeeded in bringing a freshness to the figures who can appear there with this set, all beautifully drawn in crisp contours and colours that print out clearly and brightly. An optional PDF layer lets you print an uncoloured outline set too, if you need variant colour-schemes.

There's a mix of the living, the undead, the nearly-dead (the Scarab Swarm's latest meal!), and the never living (the Clockwork Anubis automaton), plus some of Ancient Egypt's famed treasures in the form of four golden Canopic Jars. Perhaps the only mobile things missing are some winged serpents (aside from being shown in period art from the region, the Ancient Greek historian Herodotus described them as if they were real creatures, living in trees and guarding one valley in particular). There is though a winged Hawkman available via the variant layers in either 2 or 2.5D forms, the latter with fold-out wings. And every figure has an appropriately-sized sandy base ready to print-out as well, a thoughtful touch too many paper miniature designers forget to include.

Problems? Thankfully very few. A couple of human-sized characters not standing fully upright are perhaps a little too tall (the Slave Driver leaning at an angle is vertically 35mm foot-to-crown as he stands, while the slave Worker he's driving, back bent by a burden, still stands 30mm high, for example), and several need care when cutting out by-hand, with occasionally tiny gaps to be removed. One or two would benefit from having slightly longer base tabs, as their feet overhang too much on the printed version, making for a potentially weak join to their bases (the Mummy Priest especially). It is though a simple matter to leave an extra piece of unprinted card at the tab ends where this is apparent when hand-cutting, and these are not major points.

Overall, a lovely collection of figures. Would that there were more sets showing such flair and care in both design and inventiveness!

This set has a very original feel to it. The figures are typical of Jabbro Jones, meaning they have very good artwork, and vivid colors.

One special bonus is that they have layers that you can print these out with the colors, or if you prefer, you can print out the black and white version for DYI coloring.

Very nice additiion to any fantasy or desert themed games.