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Post by mthrguth on Mar 31, 2024 13:09:54 GMT
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Post by mthrguth on Mar 31, 2024 10:48:28 GMT
www.gettyimages.com/detail/illustration/costumes-and-fashions-of-ancient-europe-royalty-free-illustration/1495703129?adppopup=trueBronze Age Europeans. The DBA army lists are boring, but these have great fantasy crossover. The bronze age in the middle east is a favorite for wargamers. Europe gets no such love. Sad, because you have pre-Viking Scandinavians as depicted in the Torslunda plates-with their great Loki helmets and boar helms; there is the Urnfield culture, bronze age Gauls and Italians. Wargames Foundry makes them in 28mm, but none in 15mm. And WF doesn't really have the Torslunda Scandinavians. Urnfield Culture are sort of Sumerians with leather kilts and felt hats. Falcon Figures used to make them in 15mm; but there were only a few figures in the range and Kai Weaver's phone is disconnected, so no way to get the old molds back.....
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Post by mthrguth on Jan 2, 2024 12:46:36 GMT
Couldn't make it a 2 day event could you? One day for Doubles and one day for single armies?
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Post by mthrguth on Jan 2, 2024 12:42:11 GMT
Yes, I'll be there. Pittsburgh is huge, please send further details! Hope the weather cooperates!
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Post by mthrguth on Nov 27, 2023 17:18:14 GMT
No, the above are Syrian or Hittite. I'll find it. How did you get a picture into the post?
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Post by mthrguth on Nov 27, 2023 11:58:29 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. But, Viking Forge also has an assyrian figure which might be appropriate to mix in with Gladiator games figures!
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Post by mthrguth on Nov 27, 2023 11:38:54 GMT
Chariot miniatures is now out of production and business. They had several figures that would have been very good. Warlord games has a 'Kassite' army in 28mm. Actually they also call it a Mitanni army, so I think it is probably generic. I'd look at it for ideas however. I found very few bas reliefs of the actual army, one guy had the body of a duck, presumably for crossing a river! I can't figure out how to post pictures. Chariot miniatures used to make a Sea Peoples figure which looked very much like the kassite chariot runners in the Warlorld range. Essex has such a large range of figures that I would have thought that you could pull out earlier figures from the range. BS 7 Sumerian archer, for example, looks like some of the kassite warlord figures. BS 27-33 and the Kharu archers might all be appropriate. forum.wgcwar.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=998&p=5777&hilit=kassite#p5777 is Texas Maximus' interpretation of the army, its the 'Triumph' website forum. First, if you register on the website you could correspond with him, because he doesn't identify the figures he used for the army; BUT I strongly suspect Gladiator Games figures. He admits to the use of later looking figures in the army, but they still look very bronze age to me. fighting15s.com/product-category/gladiator-miniatures/biblical/canaanites-syrians/?v=7516fd43adaa Texas Maximus says that the kilt should be the defining feature of the infantry. The Biblical Gladiator ranges have a ton of figures that could be good for early bronze age. Even some of the Sea Peoples might fit the army based on the Warlord games Kassite figures. Gladiator is at fighting15's.com These take some skill to get them to look good, like Tex.
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Post by mthrguth on Oct 30, 2023 17:08:58 GMT
But this is only the tip of the iceberg, because one needs to raise allied contingents for each army!
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Post by mthrguth on Oct 22, 2023 12:02:08 GMT
Move to maryland, we can play every day!
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Post by mthrguth on Oct 22, 2023 12:01:24 GMT
Really pretty armies. Those are plastic figures if I am correct. You've done a great job.
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Post by mthrguth on Aug 7, 2023 19:07:24 GMT
According to the University College of London website we should equate the term 'Libyan,' with 'originating in the western desert. Some of the rulers were probably 'NKE' generals, and in the south, priests of Amun.
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Post by mthrguth on Aug 1, 2023 21:08:41 GMT
Haven't been to Nordlingen in nearly 50 years. Is the 30 years war battle diorama still there? I wish I had known more about the battle, a catastrophic Swedish defeat. There's an SPI game on the subject. The diorama was about 6x8 and all flats. Who would have known. Great walls.
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Post by mthrguth on Jul 13, 2023 15:04:33 GMT
In the old days we just added up combat factors. You could also have two ratings, one versus horse and another versus foot. Back then though there were no quick kills by knights to complicate the assessment by combat factor; and elephants only cost 1 pip to move.
Now I would add a third category, rough terrain versus open terrain.
There was a great article on using Mongols under the DBM rules. Mongols ,apparently, were losers. One player wrote though of his Mongol philosophy. He almost never lost. How? By refusing to attack into 'cornered armies' when the board was unfavorable. The Great Khan was too smart to launch suicidal attacks against fortified positions. He did not care if he got a 'draw.' To the Great Khan a draw was simply an invitation to fight later, on his own terms. . To reiterate, you stand more than a 50% chance of putting 3 big terrain pieces in 3 quarters of the board. Romans and knights beat Irish? Ha, try setting the Irish uphill of the Romans in wooded hills.
Again,a player is no more required to set up in clear terrain than he is in difficult going. Don't commit suicide in the name fair play. No Roman player is going to invite you to put out extra wooded hills in the name of fair play. You shouldn't make the board empty.
Or you could play Triumph, where the Irish move very quickly and are hard to pin down.
Now low aggression armies with all rough terrain troops still have problems. Alas.
In summary, not only might you assess armies by their total, anti foot and anti mounted combat factors; but also based on their open versus close terrain combat factors-perhaps normalized by their aggression to factor in how likely they are to fight in their desired terrain.
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Post by mthrguth on Jun 3, 2023 15:44:27 GMT
You might also consider searching for pdf's of DBMM army lists. These often have a bit more background.
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Post by mthrguth on Jun 1, 2023 11:38:03 GMT
And to Kai Weaver of Falcon Miniatures, Allain Toullier of France, the owner of the Navwar molds for Roundway and Naismith (see Hour of Wolves and Shattered Shields website to see how wonderful these were,).
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