More plastic reinforcements have come to Trench Crusade in the shape of the new Prussian Stosstrupen and the Sniper Priests! In this full review we’ll be checking out these kits, seeing how they go together and seeing how they look in the flesh! We’ll also be investigating just how modular they are for a game that has a lot of equipment options

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So let’s dive into the Trenches and see what new goodies are on the way!

Trench Crusade Prussian Stosstruppen

If you’ve been living in a trench the last couple of years, Trench Crusade is the super popular grimdark skirmish miniatures game that exploded onto the scene with a super popular Kickstarter.

Set in an alternate 1914, the forces of Heaven and Hell are engaged in brutal trench warfare across a devastated no mans land. Think a stylised alternate first world war with daemons and monsters crossed with Mordheim and you’re halfway there.

When the game first hit Kickstarter, the focus was on being able to use any miniature supported with an official range that were 3d printed – however in November 2025 the Trench Crusade team started making the move to a full plastic range, kicking off with the Prussian Warband box.

We now see the first kits following that, and we’ve got our mud covered hands on the first Troop Box, the Prussian Stosstruppen.

This set retails at £24.99 and contains 5 full multipart Stosstruppen – And I have to say I was presently surprised at just how modular these guys are!

The sprue is absolutely teaming with bits on it! Trench Crusade is much closer to something like Necromunda or Mordheim, and so a big part of the game is creating your own warbands and equipping them however you want. While the initial Warband Box had fixed loadouts to allow you to get a force onto the table quickly, this I feel is the first “proper” Trench Crusade kit – allowing you to create your own force with your own identity.

With that in mind, every single body, legs, arms, heads and gear is usable in any combination. There’s a couple of equipment options that have a fixed pose given the constraints of the material, but in the whole you could build 3 or 4 of these boxes and build each and every model in a different way! This is something I was very excited to see for Trench Crusade, and hopefully this is the signs of a full plastic range on the way for the game. Now obviously this is something that doesnt happen overnight, but with the Prussians having good representation, and two more plastic warbands coming in the upcoming 2 player set this is deffo a good sign for the future of the game

You really do have a lot of freedom to do things however you want, and I was left with a lot of spare parts on the sprues to keep for my bits box for future projects. One thing to note is that the instructions are fully digital. Personally, I like hard copy build sheets in my miniatures, as I can lay them down on my hobby desk and get the parts ready – this is a little harder to do when you are looking at them on a screen or mobile, though given how much freedom you have in this kit, you don’t really need to follow them at all unless you are building some of the multi piece options such as the flamethrower.

One positive to the digital instructions however is the fact that they contain not just the build options, but also contain lore and rules too – While the full Trench Crusade rules can be found on their website for free, it’s really nice having access to the unit profiles and equipment lists so you can work out what to arm your models with.

I’m hoping that the rest of the Prussian range comes to plastic soon so that players can put together a full force – and there’s hope here for lots of varients to come. Prussians are just one slice of the New Antioch faction, and there’s lots of scope for new sub factions to be created in future too, along with the entire existing factions to be ported to plastic.

Sniper Priests

The other new kit out alongside the Stosstruppen is the Sniper Priests box. Retailing at £19.99 this the first Elite box, and contains two Sniper Priests for the New Antioch faction. I mentioned earlier that New Antioch has a lot of different “flavours” and this kit has been put together in such a way that you can use it for all of them. Yes you get some heads that would suit the Prussians, but there’s a lot of variety here to make sure that they don’t look out of place in whichever subfaction you play.

Looking at the sprue again, there’s lots of options here – two different torso and leg assemblies that are interchangeable with a whole host of different heads, accessories and 4 different weapon options. Again, the focus is on letting you design your own Sniper Priest and there’s enough parts so that even if you picked up 2 kits you could put 4 of them together that look completely different.

I put together two with this set, one in the umbers and grime of my Prussian force, with a gasmasked head that would work well alongside them, and another in a more generic look that could work in any warband. This is a really nice touch, and something I expect to see as we see more elite and hero boxes released.

Again, instructions are digital, but really easy to follow and it was a pretty quick process getting these together. The sprues are produced by Archon Studio (who have recently released the Starcraft miniatures game) and are good quality. Parts are well labeled, and the detail is fantastic. If you’ve built any other miniatures, these stand up just as well.

I know there will be a part of the fanbase that believes 3D printing is the future and there’s no place for plastic miniatures, but I disagree. 3D printing is cool, and I have a printer myself, but even the best prints don’t get the hobby juices flowing in the same way as a plastic kit. I enjoy the process of building and painting kits, and I think it would be a massive shame if that ever went away. Trench Crusade have done the right thing in moving to plastic miniatures. For a start, it keeps the game existing, every plastic kit widens the appeal and accessibility of the game and for a miniatures game to be successful in a very crowded and competitive environment then it is important that everyone is able to jump in and play, and for most that means having access to plastic kits.

While these kits may work out a little more expensive per model than some games, in a small scale game such as this you don’t need many models – pick up a couple of boxes and you have a usable force. Now of course, there’s lots of other cool stuff you can get in order to have more varied games – but the important thing is having a couple of factions represented in plastic, and then grow this over time. I full expect us to see the rest of the plastic Prussian range over the course of the year, and with Carcass Front on the way this summer, they are hopefully joined with more kits for the Sacred Affliction and the Heretic Naval Raiders.

I really enjoyed working on these models, and look forward to seeing what is on the horizon!

The Prussian Stosstroppen and Sniper Priests are available to order now.

Factory Fortress Inc provided Sprues & Brews with free copies for review purposes.