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Post by paulhannah on Apr 12, 2024 16:16:24 GMT
What a cool tool. Now, I can go to sleep each night knowing that I haven't forgotten any armies with a minimum of six Solid Hordes. Awesome. Thanks for this!
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Post by paulhannah on Feb 11, 2024 15:00:24 GMT
Lurkio fans may have already seen this recent FB soliloquy from the proprietor. In it, he promises to continue Lurkio's signature "pack breakers" and says he evenn plans to work up DBA packs. Meanwhile, we wait...
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Post by paulhannah on Feb 11, 2024 1:17:00 GMT
Great. Good to hear, from all reports, I should have no trouble getting Feudal Castings Axumites and Kushites. I once had a Feudal Castings Axumite army, but I was maybe a bit too generous of a tourney host at an ENFILADE years ago when I offered up the painted army (elements of it shown below) as a prize. Pleased to know I can replace it.
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Post by paulhannah on Feb 10, 2024 19:36:20 GMT
AFAIK Scale Creep is open for business. I ordered a bunch of stuff from them in December and it was fulfilled without issue and quickly. A lot of the figures turned out to be Feudal Castings. Good to hear! In another thread, I saw this post from Bill Hupp of Thistle & Rose: "We manufacture the figures at Thistle & Rose; Mark just distributes them at Scale Creep."So, a little confusing, but if it works, voila!
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Post by paulhannah on Feb 10, 2024 4:33:17 GMT
Anyone know if there's a discernable pulse at Scale Creep Miniatures? They're ostensiby the current purveyors of the 15mm Feudal Castings line. Not that I need new projects, but I'd squirrel away some of their Auxumites & Kushites before they too are completely unavailable. (My enquires have gone unanswered.)
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Post by paulhannah on Dec 8, 2023 14:04:00 GMT
In the series of test games, the Jewish Revolt will meet Imperial Rome. It will be interesting to see if they can improve on your record. I drilled into the COMPENDIVM. Locally, against EIR, the Jewish Revolt army is a woeful 5-16. Mr. Titus has clearly had his way with them. Suggestions or other tactical advice welcome! And curious what you mean by "the series of test games"? (I haven't been on Fanaticus a lot in recent months.)
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Post by paulhannah on Dec 7, 2023 17:20:45 GMT
For the start of Hanukkah, and for entertainment purposes only, here are the won-loss records of the various Jewish armies in DBA, as culled from the COMPENDIVM, the records of our local NAGS group over the last couple decades. Alas, only one has a winning record, the II/43 Maccabeans (58-40), and the I/34 Later Hebrews (15-33) are quite dreadful. Many have only a handful of results. Your results may vary!
It's a longer list than one might think!
I/27 Early Hebrew, 8-29
I/34 Later Hebrew, 15-33
II/22e Arabo-Aramaean / Adiabene*, 4-4 Queen Helena of Adiabene became a convert Judaism about the year of 30 CE.
II/23c Later Pre-Islamic Arab / Yemeni (Himyarite Kingdom), 2-3 Himyarite kings and perhaps the greater population embraced Judaism in the 4th Century CE.
II/43 Maccabean Jewish, 58-40
II/50 Hasmonean Jewish, 3-3
II/51 Late Judaean, 16-21
II/59 Jewish Revolts, 9-25
III/16 Khazar, 47-76 Khazar rulers (but likely not the general population) adopted Judaism in the 8th Century for reasons of political expediency, caught between Muslim Umayyad and Orthodox Byzantine superpowers.
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Post by paulhannah on Nov 28, 2023 5:31:03 GMT
Thanks for the suggestion to look at Gladiator Miniatures. Those were sculpted by Josef Ochs, I believe. Lots of character and animation. Josef Ochman. Thanks for the correction. My bad.
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Post by paulhannah on Nov 27, 2023 15:22:36 GMT
The other defining feature of an early army like this might be a wicker shield. Again we regret the loss of Chariot miniatures who had 15mm hillmen figures. I'm guessing this is the Chariot Miniatures Hillman figure you're thinking of. That figure makes up the two Solid Hordes in my I/20b Syro-Canaanite army. Thanks for the suggestion to look at Gladiator Miniatures. Those were sculpted by Josef Ochman, I believe. Lots of character and animation.
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Post by paulhannah on Nov 27, 2023 1:39:33 GMT
I've been reading a bit about Nebuchadnezzar I (1126-1105BC). Naturally, I began to covet a I/21a Kassite Babylonian army of his era. The figures listed in the Essex army-pack seem more appropriate for the "b" version, or even later.
Any suggestions for building a 12th Century BC version of this army in 15mm? Are there even any options other than the ubiquitous Essex?
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Post by paulhannah on Aug 29, 2023 18:59:33 GMT
Yep, the Khazars' debut games will be against Eric Donaldson's recently finished Rus. In fact, his starting on the Rus project was the catalyst for my starting on these Khurasan Khazars.
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Post by paulhannah on Aug 29, 2023 15:25:48 GMT
Posted pics of my recently finished III/16 Khazars on the FB site here. 15mm Khurasan Khazars, with Xyston rabbis, Essex artillery, and a scratch-built "Beg Buggy" (CWg). Really ran (and had fun with) with the notion that the Khazar nobility, at least, adopted Judaism as a foil to their Byzantine and Arab rivals.
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Post by paulhannah on Aug 23, 2023 8:04:51 GMT
But surely that is the opposite of what we are talking about. The original aim of this thread is to highlight those armies in history that were no-hopers, but are killers in DBA. Oh. My bad if I hijacked this thread. Sorry.
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Post by paulhannah on Aug 21, 2023 16:14:55 GMT
Paul, is that the loss win ratio or the number of losses compared to the number of games played? And what do the figures in parentheses represent? As you can see I'm no statistician. Cheers, The numbers reflect their wins and losses. The number in parentheses is their win/loss ratio. To use the IV/6 Syrians above as an example, they have won 30 games and lost 64, for a .319 win/loss ratio. These totals do not include "civil war" games, as those results would skew won-loss records towards the median.
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Post by paulhannah on Aug 20, 2023 22:29:25 GMT
Dunno about which armies SHOULD be bad, but here are statistical results of the records of those armies with the worst won-loss records in our local group's games, all faithfully recorded since 2002.
- I/7 Early Libyan: 79-116 (.405)
- III/20 Sui and Early T’ang Chinese: 34-50 (.404)
- II/32 Later Carthaginian: 123-182 (.403)
- III/28 Carolingian Frankish: 47-71 (.398)
- I/48 Thracian: 40-64 (.384)
- III/16 Khazar: 47-76 (.382)
- III/47 Early German: 56-91 (.380)
- II/80 Hunnic: 50-87 (.364)
- III/1 Early Slavs: 41-74 (.356)
- I/19 Mitanni: 36-65 (.356)
- III/71 Anglo-Danish: 35-65 (.350)
- IV/6 Syrian: 30–64 (.319)
But, as they say on the financial pages, "Your individual results may vary."
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