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Post by Baldie on Nov 12, 2023 8:08:42 GMT
I finished painting my II/4a Warring States Chinese - Ch’in Army yesterday. This was an Army pack from Essex I had bought before the pandemic so only had figures for the single army list. However, I picked up some more stuff from Essex at Warfare yesterday to make the remaining Yueh, Chao and Others army lists which will hit my painting table at speed to give another 4 army lists. I thought that in finishing the Ch’in I’d pass the milestone of 200 Army lists complete only to find I’d miscounted an it was actually my 201st army list completed. Anyway 200 not out - so not bad! Next up on the painting table are the Apulian and Bruttian armies using Xyston miniatures. These are pretty hopeless armies but will complete all the sides for the Second Punic Wars as well as giving the Polybians some Aux allies for the hills. Also with 200 army lists complete the number of “good” armies I don’t already have has shrunk quite a lot. Which brings me to the question of whether I should replace armies I already own with newer, better minis? My Macedonians, Indians, Greeks and Successors are well over 35 years old and from Chariot Miniatures (which were state of the art back then) but I look at what is available now from Xyston and Museum etc and am thinking about it. The rot will start with the Thessalians, my favourite Greek Army, which someone bought me as a Xyston boxed set not realising I already had it. Beautiful figures! So tempting! 200 lists is a great effort, well done. Def go for the updates I love my Xyston Greeks, a gaming chum sold me a 12 element "Other Greek" force to tempt me into DBA many ears ago. I then got the AB and EIR DBA boxed sets from Corvus Belli and was hooked on both DBA and chunky figures.
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Post by carll on Nov 12, 2023 20:30:14 GMT
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Post by carll on Nov 12, 2023 20:37:46 GMT
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Post by carll on Nov 12, 2023 20:40:41 GMT
My classical Indian archers will also see service as archers in my medieval Hindu DBA army which is under construction. Their rocket racks and rocketeers appear under scratch building! CarlL
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Post by timurilank on Nov 13, 2023 16:06:40 GMT
Again work-in-progress: Here are some later 28mm Classical Indian additions. CarlL First up 28mm Maidens Guard, possibly Navigator or Magister Militum, with last image being a comparison shot to the Warrior 25mm Maidens Guard. Carll, The designs on flags and shields set the army apart. Nice.
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Post by timurilank on Nov 13, 2023 16:10:09 GMT
18 Late Roman cataphract were completed last Friday. These will make 4 x 4Kn with two extra troopers to flank the CinC.
Painting has begun on 24 auxilia for the Late Roman army. These will make 6 x 4Ax, each element with a different shield pattern.
I should reach, this week, the halfway mark to completing two commands of Late Roman (eastern).
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Post by Baldie on Nov 13, 2023 16:13:07 GMT
My classical Indian archers will also see service as archers in my medieval Hindu DBA army which is under construction. Their rocket racks and rocketeers appear under scratch building! CarlL They will look great en mass
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Post by Haardrada on Nov 14, 2023 17:59:07 GMT
I've completed the Lombard 3rd batch today(awaiting basing)..so the tally of complete armies are...
III/2. Early Lombards. III/21a&b. Italian Lombards. II/80a. Attila's Huns. IV/4. Anglo-Norman(morph legal list to add to the Normans).
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Post by Baldie on Nov 14, 2023 19:35:02 GMT
I do love the Huns
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Post by Haardrada on Nov 15, 2023 13:16:49 GMT
I agree....and Hsuing-nu.😁
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Post by Ken Gordon on Nov 15, 2023 17:51:14 GMT
Started two Jewish armies (II/43 Maccabean and II/50 Hasmonean) last night using Xyston figures - currently at the prep stage lots of hand drilling, head swaps and conversions. Not great in open competition armies but great fun for scrambles etc, plus the figures are excellent.
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Post by Baldie on Nov 15, 2023 18:14:40 GMT
Started two Jewish armies (II/43 Maccabean and II/50 Hasmonean) last night using Xyston figures - currently at the prep stage lots of hand drilling, head swaps and conversions. Not great in open competition armies but great fun for scrambles etc, plus the figures are excellent. I got a crap load of Maccabeans, Frank swore by them and after using them a few times I understand why he swore. TBH they may be better in Lart.
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Post by carll on Nov 15, 2023 19:36:53 GMT
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Post by Baldie on Nov 16, 2023 5:56:15 GMT
Love the command group, you gotta be a brave man to go to war with a pair of cymbals.
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Post by Haardrada on Nov 16, 2023 13:44:02 GMT
With the basing of the Lombards underway I've started my my next project...
I/32bc Spring & Autumn Chinese...deciding not to do the (a) list that ends in 701BC I'm using the Essex Warring States range to represent a later army.This is where I moan about the list end date and the Start of the Warring States lists...the official start date of the Warring States Period is debated but mostly agreed as 480BC...However, the real date should be 453BC with the break up of the Jin State and the supremacy of Han,Zhoa and Wei over the Zhi clan really kicked off a new era of hostilities by 403AD when these states started to expand their influence(moan over).
Anyway the army is undercoated and underway.😁
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