DBA projects planned for 2022?

Hi Hoffmannsama you have chose an interesting army to do with unfortunately few choices from figure ranges.
Have you decided which DBA list you are going to use and and have you chosen any figures for your army yet?

I opted for three choices of figures to represent Qiang and Ti figures in various armies....for my Hu and Xiongnu I used Essex Skythians as they closely resembled the statue in the Phrygian style caps.

For my Former Ch'in I used Outpost Turkommen foot for the tribesmen and Nepalese archers from Kontos miniatures.
These were the closest fit I could interpret from descriptions of the tribesmen being proto-tibetan and wearing their hair long.

I'd love to hear your ideas and what progress you have made so far?

Sythian are a good choice for Xiongnu and Hu, I would really like to see these Nepalese Archers, they might be what I'm looking for. Coincidentally I almost looked at some turkomen foot too for tribesmen, need to go back and follow through with that.

After looking at the list for the Qiang and Ti, they didn't really do a good job representing the Qiang during the later Han and 3 kingdoms era, so I just started making my own.

The list so far, 1 x General (Cv or Lh or 3Kn), 1 x Qiang Cavalry (Cv), 3 x Qiang Tribal Horse (Lh), 2 x Qiang Yi Cong and/or Gui Cong Tribal Horse (Lh), 1 x Qiang Yi Cong (4Ax or 7Hd) or Gui Cong (3Wb or 3Pk or 3Ax), 3 x Qiang Archers (3Bw or 3Ax or Ps), 1 x Rebelling Han Colonists (7Hd) or Gui Cong (3Wb or 3Pk or 3Ax).

From what I've been reading, the Qiang tribes get kicked out of their nice farm lands by the Han, and "distributed" into the mountain fringes of the northern and eastern Tibetan plateau forcing them to become a mostly nomadic society with some really feared Lh cavalry. Although towards the end of the Han, Qiang have been allowed to settle amongst the Han colonists, and now are enlisted in the Han frontier armies, usually in two different forms. Yi Cong, Qiang auxiliaries with Han cmdrs, and Gui Cong Qiang auxiliaries with Qiang cmdrs. I decided to represent this in the army list by providing different elements for a Qiang unit that had a half Han commander like Han Sui, who might have drilled his men in a Han style, while a Qiang led unit may have stayed more true to their own fighting styles.

Qiang rebellions during the later Han usually included the local Han population too, this is because of corrupt officials known as the Qiang Lieutenant. These officials would buy their government positions for so much money, that they were forced to tax heavily and starve the Qiang and Han populations to recover some of their money spent on their own position. This was a recipe for disaster, and numerous rebellions cropped up not surprisingly. What's interesting about the Qiang, they didn't seem to appoint kings to lead armies, but rather strong individuals. So you could have a half Qiang, half Han Chinese come to lead Qiang rebellions, like with Han Sui starting off in the Han military and ended up leading the Qiang rebellion with Ma Chao.

For infantry figures, I was really inspired by the Nan Chao Eureka line and the Xiongnu Lurkio line, but still have some missing holes like armoured archers. For foot, I would use a mixture of Nan Chao Spearmen, Nan Chao swordsmen, Essex's Ch'in Chinese light spearmen, and Lurkio's Eastern Nomad Infantry. And for bows, I would use the Nan Chao bowmen, but would like to find some armoured archers too. The hairstyles of the Nan Chao figures and the armour of the Lurkio figures match the references below.










For BUA's or Camps, I was looking at making a simplified Tibetan mountain fortress villages called a 寨.




Sorry that became a little long winded, I get really wrapped up in all this stuff. Let me know if you have any good suggestions on armoured archers or anything about those Nepalese archers

Hello gents,
After a long time with no new DBA project (these past 2 years), I’m in the mood for some Roman civil war project.

At first I intended to paint 2 Marian II/49 armies (Caesar vs Pompey or Octavian vs Marc Anthony).
I looked towards Forged in battle minis and Baueda.
But I saw the PSC Late Roman army starter box (Mortem and gloriam), and it contains enough for assembling both II/78a and b armies (for a very reasonable price).

So I may go for late imperial Rome, and it will change from my mainly « Punic war era » armies 😁

WOW Hoffsmannama,
Great images. Great plans. I am a fan of most things Chinese history and enemies. I think I might get carried away if I followed your example:
"For BUA's or Camps, I was looking at making a simplified Tibetan mountain fortress villages called a 寨."
They look pretty mighty mountain forts.
Are these 15mm figures you have painted?
I suppose a 10mm (roughly speaking) mountain fortress might fit onto a DBA camp base; while the allowance for BUA is a lot bigger so you could probably model a 28mm scale mountain retreat on the maximum base area (tabletop wise). I look forward to that bit of model making. Might inspire me to similar for my 15mm Sung / Song or 25mm Han armies!!
CarlL

Running off a small force of Orcs for a MESBG campaign we have started.

Once done the three next on list are

Finish of my Greek basing
Finish the other stands of pike, mainly for my Lart forces
Finish off my EIR army, they have waited a very long time

My projects atm are mostly non-DBA/Hott…SYW/Imagi-nations top ups, a Lion Rampant retinue or two in 15mm, some mules for the baggage train, an ECW Scots army, a few extra colonials, some LIR horse archers to add to II/78b and assorted terrain bitz-n-pieces.