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Post by menacussecundus on Jan 27, 2023 22:49:08 GMT
I have been given a £25 Essex Miniatures gift card as a belated birthday present.
I was thinking of using it to buy an army pack and that the army would then remind me of both the donor and the occasion. I am happy to add a bit, but I'd like the voucher to cover most of the cost. (Otherwise it becomes so-and-so bought me half the army and I bought the other half.)
I think I have probably made my choice, but which Essex army pack costing up to, say, £30 would you choose? (And why?)
Menacus S
PS Waiting until a later date isn't an option as the voucher is only valid for 3 months.
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Post by Ainkatsiss on Jan 28, 2023 4:11:00 GMT
I think i would take II/12 Alexandrian Macedinian: - It seems to be a good amry in play (i'm new player, but it still seems, at least to me) - It is an iconic army - It is out of the range of what i have now, so won't be "one in many" - It is a center piece of the period. So if i start collecting all armies of this time, it will be THE "one in many"  These lead this to be an army i would like to play, to paint, and which would probably make me buy many others armies i would like to play and paint. And each time i'll do these all things, i'll think about the people who "offered" me Alexander. (As you see, my motivation is good, maybe better than yours. You should offer me this gift card, i'll remember you well !)  |
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Post by Haardrada on Jan 30, 2023 19:02:54 GMT
I have been given a £25 Essex Miniatures gift card as a belated birthday present. I was thinking of using it to buy an army pack and that the army would then remind me of both the donor and the occasion. I am happy to add a bit, but I'd like the voucher to cover most of the cost. (Otherwise it becomes so-and-so bought me half the army and I bought the other half.) I think I have probably made my choice, but which Essex army pack costing up to, say, £30 would you choose? (And why?) Menacus S PS Waiting until a later date isn't an option as the voucher is only valid for 3 months. What armies do you have already? |
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Post by menacussecundus on Jan 30, 2023 20:37:50 GMT
Painted:
Book I: Midianite (6b), Later Hittite Empire (24b), Middle Assyrian & Early Neo-Assyrian (25a&b), Spring & Autumn Chinese (32c), Later Neo-Babylonian (44b), Neo-Assyrian Empire (45), Thracian (48) and Later Sargonid (51)
Book II: Theban and Thessalian (5c&d), Later Achaemenid Persian (7), Gallic (11), Alexandrian Macedonian and Imperial (12 and 15), Later Sarmatian (26), Later Carthaginian (32a, Polbian Roman (33), Parthian (37), Iberian & Celtiberian (39a&b), Han Chinese (41a&b), Dacian (52), Ancient British (53), EIR (56), Caledonian (60), Radagaisus' Greuthingi (67a), Sassanids (69b&c), LIR (78a&b), Patrician Roman (82a&b), Later Visigoths (83a)
Book III: Central Asian City States (8), Rajput and other Hindu Indian (10b&c), Welsh (19a), Sui Chinese (20b), Middle Anglo-Saxon (24a&b), Andalusian (34b),Viking (40b) and Anglo-Danish (72)
Book IV: Early Swiss (41) and Condotta (61) (Not really interested in the later period.)
Awaiting pigmenting: Pyrrhic (II/27b) and Khazar (III/16)
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Post by Baldie on Jan 30, 2023 20:39:25 GMT
Norman's would be a good fit for some of those armies
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Post by paulisper on Jan 30, 2023 22:37:07 GMT
For me, it would be based on trying to avoid some of the more generic and lacking in variety of pose armies that Essex can churn out… that can prove tricky…
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Post by menacussecundus on Jan 30, 2023 23:00:50 GMT
For me, it would be based on trying to avoid some of the more generic and lacking in variety of pose armies that Essex can churn out… that can prove tricky… P There is that too, although, to give them their due, quite a few of the armies I've listed came from Essex. |
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Post by Haardrada on Jan 31, 2023 1:02:12 GMT
Looking at your list I would consider a few options...you could look for enemies of existing armies?
Book I you could consider Late Amorites,Hyksos or Sea People armies
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Book II maybe Palmyran?
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Post by menacussecundus on Jan 31, 2023 8:14:47 GMT
Looking at your list I would consider a few options...you could look for enemies of existing armies? Book I you could consider Late Amorites,Hyksos or Sea People armies or Book II maybe Palmyran? As I said, I thought I'd made my choice, but you may just have changed my mind - although it's not clear what the Late Amorite LCh General looks like* and the I/15 pack lacks the nomadic levies (3Ax or Ps) which are an alternative to the 2 x 7Hd * Checked with Essex. The LCh is the car used for BSE2. (I assume the figures are different, but I didn't ask about that.) |
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Post by Simon on Jan 31, 2023 11:11:03 GMT
If you just send the voucher to me, I would be delighted to take this dilemma off your hands...
Simon
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Post by Haardrada on Jan 31, 2023 11:17:06 GMT
Looking at your list I would consider a few options...you could look for enemies of existing armies? Book I you could consider Late Amorites,Hyksos or Sea People armies or Book II maybe Palmyran? As I said, I thought I'd made my choice, but you may just have changed my mind - although it's not clear what the Late Amorite LCh General looks like* and the I/15 pack lacks the nomadic levies (3Ax or Ps) which are an alternative to the 2 x 7Hd * Checked with Essex. The LCh is the car used for BSE2. (I assume the figures are different, but I didn't ask about that.) Oops sorry to place a seed of doubt on your decided choice.🙂 I have the army in my mount unpaint and chose the Essex Elamite platform car for the General Element...but the army Tony Aguilar posted in his YouTube videos has a Syrian/Canaanite chariot I think?So the choice is up to you after all. I had planned to add a few elements to the army so that it can morph inti an Early/Late Hyksos army as the armies only have a few differences.😉 |
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Post by menacussecundus on Jan 31, 2023 11:55:19 GMT
Oops sorry to place a seed of doubt on your decided choice.🙂 I have the army in my mount unpaint and chose the Essex Elamite platform car for the General Element...but the army Tony Aguilar posted in his YouTube videos has a Syrian/Canaanite chariot I think?So the choice is up to you after all. I had planned to add a few elements to the army so that it can morph inti an Early/Late Hyksos army as the armies only have a few differences.😉 Not at all. It was an idle question on my part, but the Late Amorites would be an appropriate choice for several reasons (which I shan't bore you with). |
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Post by martin on Jan 31, 2023 16:55:24 GMT
Looking at your list I would consider a few options...you could look for enemies of existing armies? Book I you could consider Late Amorites >> > As I said, I thought I'd made my choice, but you may just have changed my mind - although it's not clear what the Late Amorite LCh General looks like* and the I/15 pack lacks the nomadic levies (3Ax or Ps) which are an alternative to the 2 x 7Hd * Checked with Essex. The LCh is the car used for BSE2. (I assume the figures are different, but I didn't ask about that.) I’ll send you a couple of pics of the LCh I got when I bought the Essex Later Amorites…. |
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Post by menacussecundus on Mar 6, 2023 18:42:21 GMT
And lo, it came to pass that I chose the Later Amorites (with some adjustments). Thank you for the suggestion Haardrada.
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Post by menacussecundus on Aug 9, 2023 11:30:43 GMT
Finished basing the army today, just in time for Britcon this weekend. Pity I'm not able to go.
I may post some pictures - or links to pictures - when I get a moment.
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