Battle of ???, Society of Ancients, Battle Day in the North Run Through

This weeks game was right up my street and had me quite excited as we were to play a Late Medieval game. If any of you remember my La Journee blog you will know of my love of all things Late Medieval. Sadly/stupidly I closed the blog a number of years back...... well, you live and you learn.....

Jim was kind enough to bring in the bulk of his Late Medieval collection as we were planning on playing a run through of  a battle that we have planned to replay later in the year for the Society of Ancients, Battle Day in the North. After a wee bit of shuffling and sorting of troops we managed to get the units sorted into something more akin to what they might look like on the day.

I'm not really at liberty to describe the battle and definitely not at liberty to tell you which battle it is we were refighting; all that will be revealed at the event next year, which I think it taking place in April(?).

Jim's collection looked fantastic and it would be a shame not to show the game off so here's a selection of images for your perusal. 

The rules of choice, perhaps unsurprisingly for regular readers, were WAB which handled the battle very well. 

I would like to ask anyone who's on the know not to mention which battle it is that we have here.

Cheers for now.

Coming Soon, North Star Hussite Wars Knights, Part Two

Yesterdays North Star Miniatures Newsletter came with a couple more "reveals" regarding the up and coming plastic Hussite Wars Knights of Foot sprue and a couple of made up examples.

Examples:

I have blown them up a little as the images were very small indeed. On looking at the made up plastic knights I'm beginning to get the feeling that they're quite chunky and the worry that they might not cross over with the Perry Plastics for maximum variation is beginning to grow. This might not matter so much as long as it's possible to create a large number of unique models from the sprue. 

One other thing that I find a little worrying is the size of the swords. That thing looks very wide indeed! I know i should really wait until the models are in my hands, prepped by my good self, but as expressed in my earlier post HERE I'm more than a little excited by the possibilities for Late Eastern Medieval Warfare with the up and coming range.

Finally an image of the command sprue......

Please let me know what you think..... am I being too hard on the weapon sizes? Am I right to be wary of the chunkiness of the models?

Cheers for now.

Classical (Nanda Empire)/Mauryan (Mauryan Empire) Indian Hereditary Archer/Spear Unit #1

This unit finished was completed some time ago but was "put away" and did not see the light of day until the Battle of Cunaxa 401BCE wargame we put on earlier this year for the Society of Ancients, Battle Day In The North, held at Durham Wargames Group. Then being the only Classical Indian unit I have painted, was promptly packed again! 

 

I'm going to be entering a local Warhammer Ancient Battles V.2 tournament event at the end of September. Without spending extra cash on splashing out on another bare metal army, I needed a suitable army so pulled out my barely touched Classical/Mauryan Indians from Eureka Miniatures UK, The Miniature Company, Classical Indian range with the aim of getting them all painted up for the . 

So, this is the first unit to be photographed, soon to be followed by another. I'm waiting on an order from Warbases so as to be able to i/ place this unit in the correct size movement tray and ii/ fill out the number of trays needed for the rest of the army.

I actually found these miniatures quite difficult to paint. whilst not exactly a lack of detail to paint, more so that the details were shallow and harder to pick out. Still, painting is always a learning experience and different sculpts require different methods. I'm painting this lot up as rapidly as I can as  I literally have a matter of two months maximum to paint up hundreds of miniatures including chariots etc!

For now, here is what I have.....

Cheers for now.

Coming in 2027, Armies of the Assyrian Empire, 1363-609 BC: Organization, Weapons and Tactics

Everyone has a dream army, right? An army in which to paint up to the very best of their ability, right? 

So, for me at least, the publication next year of Armies of the Assyrian Empire, 1363-609 BC: Organization, Weapons and Tactics, Gabriele Esposito in his "Armies of" series which include photographs of reenactors and therefore provide oodles of inspiration might just be enough to tilt me towards buying that Wargames Foundry Assyrian army (despite the cost of the chariots!)