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Post by sonic on Jun 24, 2019 19:35:21 GMT
Just got a new Sky box, connected to the internet. Never had this before. Watching West Patrician Roman v Attila's huns on a 32" screen! Just weird ... Tony A. in high def!
32" crotch Yeah, the new camera angle does give a 'skewed' view on things ...
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Post by sonic on Jun 24, 2019 10:56:04 GMT
Just got a new Sky box, connected to the internet. Never had this before. Watching West Patrician Roman v Attila's huns on a 32" screen! Just weird ... Tony A. in high def!
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Post by sonic on Jun 24, 2019 8:33:00 GMT
Thank you Martin. Very, very much appreciated! Those links are interesting - even the Incan one! Seems like there's very little information available. Wonder how uncle phil came up with that army list?
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Post by sonic on Jun 20, 2019 11:18:25 GMT
Pats vs Huns another interesting game. I was surprised at how everyone was stretched out. I know what you mean. I felt that it was the wrong way round. With LH I expected the Huns to be more dispersed with the Romans more compact, rather than the other way round.
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Post by sonic on Jun 19, 2019 11:28:01 GMT
I did a bit of research some years back on this people, as I was intrigued by a picture I saw in an old history book in their chapter on the Shang Dynasty. It depicted a battle between the Shang (in red with bronze helmets and with chariots and war elephants) and the "green-clad Tung-I" with bows and bronze helmets. (This book seemed to be a compilation of a book series, quite similar to the Time-Life "Great Ages of Man"; I think it was called the "Emergence of Man" and had all these lavish paintings re-constructing the Minoans, Mycenaeans etc.) In any case, the "I" or "Tung-I" (Wade-Giles) is now usually anglicized as "Yi" or "Dongyi" (Pinyin). The tradition that their main distinguishing feature was as bowmen entered the written language. Note that they are not described as wearing skins. That implies that the Yi wore clothes instead - of course, they would have worn them "buttoned on the left" the opposite of the Chinese style. Possibly some interesting stuff here: worldwidemystery.blogspot.com/2013/11/quest-of-feathered-people-different.htmlspooksrus.tripod.com/barbarians/zhou_dynasty_barbarians.htmlWow! Many, many thanks for that information. To say that it is appreciated is an understatement!
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Post by sonic on Jun 19, 2019 9:00:54 GMT
Having no clue as to who or where this was about lead me to a brief investigation. I now know now that the Huai Valley was an important region for rice and millet farming which pre-dates the army list I/14g. Clothing may not have been different from its main opponents and looking at 28mm Shang Chinese armies I pulled up interesting photos. This one pictures a unit wearing a knee length tunic tied at the waist, bare legged and armed with spear/javelin and shield.
Presumably, these represent the town dwelling and rural commoners conscripted to serve as soldiers, This is very generic and may serve for the people of the Huai valley.
www.greatescapegames.co.uk/miniatures/miniatures-painted/painted-chinspr1.html
Hi T. Thanks for the info and link. Looks like I'm right in that there is little-no information specifically.
Paulhannah, nice looking army. I think you're right to use the CJ Peers book to suggest a colour palette etc. I'm thinking of using MY Miniatures 'Early Northern Barbarian' figures, so shouldn't need too much in the way of specific detail.
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Post by sonic on Jun 18, 2019 14:25:12 GMT
Checked Peers and the WRG book. Can't find anything ....
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Post by sonic on Jun 17, 2019 18:04:46 GMT
The silence on here is deafening!!
Think I'm right in assuming there's not much out there, so imagination and information on the contemporary Chinese it is!!
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Post by sonic on Jun 15, 2019 18:41:05 GMT
Hi all. I'm thinking of building a I/14g army, the "I". But I can't find any information concerning them anywhere. Does anyone now where to find anything about them? Cheers.
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Post by sonic on Mar 10, 2019 12:58:59 GMT
My own opinion, although this, like my underwear, is open to change, is that the problem you have when reading about post-Roman Britain is that it is largely "popular history" v "revisionism". In popular history, the Romans left in c.410. In revisionist history, the Romans didn't leave but 'died out'.
As a student of Late Rome, my personal choice is revision. Only some of the army followed Constantine III across the Channel, the limitanei and other troops remained in Britain. So if you want to place your army in the 430s/440s there is no problem with you using Late Roman figures, as the army will have continued to use their equipment until it began to fall apart: the Roman equipment was almost certainly better than that employed by the British later in the century. If you want to make it look more transitional, you could paint a few of the 'Roman' troops in drab colours, indicating that Roman practice is beginning to wane.
Just my take, but remember that, as as saxonred stated, information is scarce and nobody knows what exactly was happening.
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Post by sonic on Feb 2, 2019 14:49:25 GMT
Love weird armies, so I'd be interested!
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Post by sonic on Dec 24, 2018 12:56:57 GMT
A very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Peaceful New Year to everyone! Couldn't have put it better myself. Happy Christmas to all.
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Post by sonic on Nov 9, 2018 7:16:23 GMT
Already driven. Have a 2mm Roman city on the go and that castle is on my Christmas wish list. (I know it's not expensive,but I have so much stuff to work on that I no longer buy figures etc. for myself!)
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Post by sonic on Apr 25, 2018 13:37:15 GMT
Hi D. It does indeed. Thanks for the help!! Will need to order yet more lead in the near future. Need to get some Napoleonics finished!!
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Post by sonic on Apr 24, 2018 19:16:06 GMT
HI Timurilank.
They might be Swiss, but I just don't know. If I remember at all the old codes for the Napoleonics were just plain weird. I'm not a member of TMP, but don't worry about asking Tom Dye. I'll just use it as a learning experience!
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