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Post by Commiades on Oct 14, 2018 2:41:17 GMT
Time to register if you are planning to play DBA or BBDBA at Conquest as it is less than four weeks before the armies start deploying on the battlefield. Ouch! Still a lot of painting to do before then!
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Post by Commiades on Oct 13, 2018 21:38:32 GMT
I’ve wondered whether the Xyston figure ANC20308 - Antigonas on Palanquin would be a good start point for a conversion or perhaps the Demonworld 4037 Nallian, Orc General on Palanquin. Obviously a lot of conversion work required either way! Looking at those two, the Antigonas is a more attractive option. His bearers could pass muster and the lions on the chair don't fit. But with a robe added, he'd pass for a corpulent pope, probably better in a later period, Alexander Borgia comes to mind. Somebody's done this: link. I think the armour on the bearers is a little late for me, but otherwise it does look good. I agree that the fire pit doesn't belong there. Splintered Light do a more circumspect bishop as part of their Robin Hood series: link
Perhaps Xyston bearers with the Demonworld palanquin and the Splintered Light bishop!
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Post by Commiades on Oct 13, 2018 4:03:53 GMT
This figure was the impetus to put in an order to Essex to allow me to morph my Syrians to Samanids and even Ghaznavids with a Rajput ally (once I get some foot from Khurasan). I'm also aiming to morph my Normans into early Communal Italians. Their small packet mail rate is very attractive.
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Post by Commiades on Oct 13, 2018 1:47:49 GMT
I feel your pain as I have been looking for Syrian looking LH suitable for the Guzz in the Islamic Berber army....However, you may have a solution within the Khurasan ranges if you check out the Parthian,Kushan and Turkoman light horse you could find figures that fit what you want? I could use the Junior Ghilmen figures in the Khurasan range too. It's just the large figure packs that bug me. I could get a few other figures from Essex too, so it's an attractive option.
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Post by Commiades on Oct 12, 2018 17:41:23 GMT
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Post by Commiades on Oct 12, 2018 9:48:40 GMT
Thanks, yes, they are small horses in that range; perhaps for LH not too bad. It's perhaps a bit tangential, but the area were the Muslim world and the Western Christians had the most productive interaction was not the Crusader states, but Sicily, and to a less extent the Iberian peninsula. It was there that much of Aristotle was translated from Arabic to Latin, for example. Apostasy was not the big issue back then that it has become once the economic and political power of the Islamic world declined and they started to have to cope with Western colonial influence. The world-view of both sides wasn't worlds apart. I particularly like the way the author of the Gesta Francorum said that Franks and Turks are both descended from Trojans. They both shared a suspicion of the more civilised Byzantines and Arabs.
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Post by Commiades on Oct 11, 2018 22:22:16 GMT
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Post by Commiades on Oct 11, 2018 10:04:31 GMT
One of my group here in Canberra (Battledamage is his name in Fanaticiland) has made that conversion and did very well with his Pope-on-a-Rope at Cancon this year There might be some pictures thereof. I am hoping to convince him to work his magic on a similar element for me so that I can field my own Papal Italian in a Normans in Italy campaign set. cheers I think the Litter provides very good support for the two 4Cb (the 8Cb of later Communal Italians are even better with their CWg); and shooters are in no hurry to get into close combat.
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Post by Commiades on Oct 10, 2018 20:27:37 GMT
Thanks for sharing. What a good Papal Army at the link - very nice. l’ve been musing about that Army and how to do that Pope conversion too. Very brave to scratch build from a Hungarian archer. I’ve wondered whether the Xyston figure ANC20308 - Antigonas on Palanquin would be a good start point for a conversion or perhaps the Demonworld 4037 Nallian, Orc General on Palanquin. Obviously a lot of conversion work required either way! Thanks, those are two to look at; it'd be my first attempt at such a conversion if I tried it.
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Post by Commiades on Oct 10, 2018 20:25:51 GMT
Thanks, but those are for the list III/11 Central Asian Turkish. Aren't they different from III/8 Central Asian City States?
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Post by Commiades on Oct 10, 2018 3:09:25 GMT
I'm looking to morph my Syrian army into a Saminid one. I can find most of the figures, but I'm wondering about the Khorasanian Horse Archers. Ian Heath's Armies of the Dark Ages has a picture of one on p. 108. It looks a lot like the Sogdian horse archer on p. 102, which is to be expected.
I'm using Khurasan figures for my Syrian foot, and would use Khurasan figures for the Samanid foot too. I've used Legio Heroica for the Syrian cavalry. I could get a Khurasan figure (their KM-1P), but I'm not sure if their cavalry scale well with the Legio Heroica ones (the packs are also bigger, which is a pain). I thought maybe later Sassanid figures would work, but the Legio Heroica ones seem quite early, and with beards. Does anyone know of a manufacturer of Sogdian figures for the Central-Asian City States army (III/80)? Or other manufacturers of Khorasanian archers?
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Post by Commiades on Oct 10, 2018 1:47:51 GMT
Continuing my exploration of odd elements; I've seen the option for a Lit general for the Papal Italians (III/77). Swampster has scratch-built one: swampster-danteswars. I'm not sure I want to try that; has anyone seen any suitable 15mm ecclesial princes? There are plenty of monks.
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Post by Commiades on Oct 10, 2018 1:35:19 GMT
Has anyone seen models for the rope-pulled stone throwers that are in a couple of lists: III/37b Abbasid Arab III/50 Zanj III/76 Konstantinian Byzantine Khurasan does one for the Sung Chinese: khurasanminiatures. I've not looked closely at them, but does anyone know any more details on them; discussion on books, etc.
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Post by Commiades on Oct 10, 2018 1:26:50 GMT
Thanks. I guess if I'd done that, I'd have been overlapped on both flanks; 3-1 with a recoil is probably better than 3-2 QK.
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Post by Commiades on Oct 8, 2018 17:27:23 GMT
I've found a number of the Corvus Belli figures available from here: www.bonanza.com/booths/BryanL503I've placed two orders with Bryan and been very happy with the service.
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