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Post by Commiades on Mar 5, 2020 7:20:56 GMT
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Post by Commiades on Dec 23, 2019 0:35:43 GMT
Strange, in my collection of history books, Rome has never been described as ‘peaceful’ nor defender of the free world. Care to share some titles? The Romans trumpeted "Freedom of the Greeks" when fighting Philip of Macedon. The Greeks soon learned, to their cost, that the Romans had their own interpretation as to what that meant.
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Post by Commiades on Feb 11, 2019 6:08:54 GMT
From a gaming point of view I find 4Ax in small amounts useful, but from a historical point of view they seem to do a poor job of representing the Samnites and the medieval Almughavars, to name two that I'd love to make armies of, but can't be bothered. I'm told that in DBMm Ax(S) is very effective, and there's a tendency to follow the designation of DBMM lists; however, in these two armies in particular you end up with cruddy uninspiring armies (by contrast, an army of 8 4Bd is still able to be effective). I'm not sure what the solution is; the Catalan Company (IV/60) and the Samnites (II/13) are two armies that were historically well-regarded, but in DBA on account of their most important troops they are ineffective.
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Post by Commiades on Jan 15, 2019 4:47:48 GMT
Enjoyed reading those battle reports. I especially love seeing Mesoamerican armies on the field. Thanks, Joel really knows how to use these unusual armies.
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Post by Commiades on Jan 15, 2019 1:34:29 GMT
A series of very enjoyable games as my Mithridatic and Samanid armies prepared for Cancon across the ditch. Who do you think won this encounter? Find out here: hesperiana.wordpress.com
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Post by Commiades on Jan 14, 2019 5:12:19 GMT
Might I ask where your banners are from? If they are not obscenely well free-handed. They're from Little Big Man Studios: LBMS. I think you can order them from some of the figure manufacturers too.
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Post by Commiades on Jan 12, 2019 21:07:23 GMT
Very nicely painted. Love the fact that you think of this a a vorevarmy that cam morph into others with a few additions. Thanks. I like morphing armies. It's a way of justifying an army! Only a handful of my armies aren't useful for morphing.
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Post by Commiades on Jan 12, 2019 2:41:13 GMT
That is one imposing looking army. Looks they are just rushing towards you! Thanks. I love the poses of the foot. And their armour, especially the ones with mail face-guards.
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Post by Commiades on Jan 12, 2019 1:23:44 GMT
The Samanid spearmen are now finished: fanaticus-thread
That's the whole army done now.
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Post by Commiades on Jan 12, 2019 1:21:03 GMT
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Post by Commiades on Jan 11, 2019 8:47:16 GMT
The Samanids have three more elements, their archers: hesperiana.wordpress.com. Their spearmen are having the finishing touches applied to their bases, and then the army is ready.
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Post by Commiades on Jan 11, 2019 1:24:32 GMT
The next quarter of the army is done, the archers: The last quarter, the spearmen, are close behind. More pictures here: hesperiana.wordpress.com
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Post by Commiades on Jan 9, 2019 7:28:10 GMT
Mark, you definitely need to see this movie. Every viking stereotype is used as well as some other howlers! But remember, it was made in the 60s and as a young boy I thoroughly enjoyed it. Cheers, I've watched it now; as Wikipedia says, it's only very loosely based on the book.
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Post by Commiades on Jan 7, 2019 3:13:03 GMT
I really like your painting and basing work Mark! Very good detail. Thanks, it's a technique I adopted a while back: hesperiana.wordpress.comSince then I've started using Selley's No More Gaps to hide the bases. I generally water this down a very little bit. Another description of the basing is here: hesperiana.wordpress.com
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Post by Commiades on Jan 6, 2019 22:03:55 GMT
The Samanids have three more elements done, so they are halfway: fanaticus-threadThe middle element, the Dailami javelinmen, was a test one for the remaining foot, three elements each of spearmen and solid bow; they are nearly finished too.
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