Now, I'll tell you, despite my crowing about my Grenadier #5009 win I go almost exclusively with Reaper minis these days. I have about 60-80 Citadel plastics (WHFB regiments): skeletons, zombies, black orcs, standard orcs, goblins, Bretonian Militia and Empire Regulars and some skaven and they do fine for massed armies but for characters, some monsters and central bad guys I say Reaper all the way.
Firstly, to my eye, most Grenadier minis and their contemporaries are as ugly as sin. I find them to be bad sculpts overall. Grenadier's quality didn't start to pick up until they were out of the TSR license, to be frank. (Which is weird because Sandra Garrity and a few others at Reaper are ex-Grenadier.)
Reaper covers the gamut. If you're some addlepated "dungeonpunk" fanatic, the spikey, curvelinear armor and huge swords are present in
some Reaper sculpts but they have a
lot of "old school" style monsters, characters and so forth. Look at their Fire Giant, for example. It looks like a 3d representation of Dave Trampier's drawing in the
Monster Manual! Their line of "templar" fighter types would (assuming a consistent 28mm scale for all parties) look fantastic in a
Chainmail battle!
Additionally, Reaper has been pulling out a lot of the old books (I think) when it comes to monsters in general: dark creepers, duregar, derro, a purple worm and a whole lot more cool old-school looking monsters have recently cropped up in their line.
So I'm a Reaper man.
Oh, and someone else in the thread mentioned Dwarven Forge...let me just say that you're doing yourself a disservice if you don't get your hands on even a few sets of this amazing stuff.
Go Reaper and go DF!
