AndrewB- Ancients! Project hoppery for sanity! Wrath, Heresy, Violence! -507pts

My apologies for the delay in posting!  Real life 1:1 scale terrain projects (hooray old house!) have gotten in the way, but I’ve managed to sneak in some additional minis, and possibly completed one of my larger projects builds for a challenge yet!  A whole mess of ancients!  Not a huge amount of time for pictures and posting, as my scant hobby time has been pushed into as much painting for sanity as possible, but here we are!  A top view of a load of ancient figures just itching for the tabletop!  

89 of them, to be precise!

First up, some Egyptians!  These I planned as the Wrath! Entry, as they were built and painted to fight a bunch of Sea People figs a buddy was supposed to be painting(Historically, the Egyptians were the only survivors of the possibly Sea Peoples-induced Bronze Age Collapse, with Ramses II stopping them in the Nile Delta, avenging the rest of the Eastern Mediterranean), but his figures didn’t get done!  That’s alright, especially with the angry bald dude in the front, wrath still sits well.  The Wrath of the Pharaoh, perhaps!

These guys are slightly more interesting, they’re a mix of various peoples of the area of Israel and Judea in the early biblical period, along with a group of six Philistine figures, who can be opponents, or mercenary allies.  Lots of basic spearmen, some slingers, and some really fun command figures!  With no chariots, this should likely be a force from the time of Saul/David, but can also represent the smaller rural forces of the Hebrews all the way through to the Jewish Revolt in the 60s-70s AD, giving an impressive ~1300years of possible play.  In that time, the peoples of this region fought hundreds of opponents, from the Egyptians, Assyrians, Hittites, Greeks, Babylonians, to the Romans, with a huge amount of fighting taking place with one another!  They’re the perfect candidate for the ‘Violence’ category!  

Last but not least( I know it’s out of order, but it’s all the same post), my submission for Heresy!  This giant dude is my representation for Goliath, should I ever find a set of rules to game his fight with the ‘A’ portion of Force=Mass X Acceleration. Fighting and even unsuccessfully trying to kill future King David is probably enough to count as Heresy for a lot of folks.  

That’s 88 28mm figures and a 40mm, and three categories!  My math isn’t always the best, but I think it’s 507pts.  My apologies for the poor backdrop and lack of pictures, but I needed to make sure folks knew I hadn’t dropped out, and have been putting in work in my now short amounts of time. I’ll be sure to get more detailed and quality pictures for my wrap-up post.  Not sure the unexpected home repairs are going to let me hit my 1200pt goal, but I’m gonna try!  Thanks for all the help and inspiration!  

PS- if anyone knows of a good skirmish/big skirmish game for pre-ancient by wargaming standards figures like these, please let me know!   Picked up Clash of Spears, but these guys will have chariots soon, and not only is the conflict before the period of the rules’ design, but there’s no rules for them.  

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BOOM goes the Dynamite - a points bomb if ever there was one! Great to see some Bronze Age/Biblical period models hitting the Challenge Andrew.

We all know the pain of the worst of all scales (1:1) so this speaks volumes of your commitment - good luck!

- Paul

AdamC - Ancient Egyptian Archers (50 points)

These New Kingdom Egyptians from Old Glory are for a project my friend Arofan is working on to do some Biblical era War gaming. By this I mean the kingdom of Israel period.

That technically makes these fellows late period Egyptians the last gasp of native rule before domination by foreign powers (Persians, Greeks Romans and so on until after World War II) Fortunately with Ancient Egyptians what's is new is what is old so reto garb was the way.

They were simple linen kilts and head dresses armed with bows arrows and maybe a knife. The leader has a stone headed mace. There are 10 figures here for 50 points. The base is a temporary one so Arofan can permanently base them as he wishes. This may require a reduction in points.

Sylvain: Very nice Egyptians. I'm enticed to walk like them (cf. Bangles). Their head dress immediately suggest where they are from. I'm not going to reduce the points because I'm sure these miniatures will soon end up on a nice base. Can't wait to see the next submission of this project of biblical proportions.

 

 

JezT - Biblical Babylonians - 25mm -125 points

 Hi All 

This week posting for the second room on the library tour - HISTORY and presenting some newly painted 3 x packs of Biblical figures from Cutting Edge Miniatures.  I already have a Hittite army using this figure range and these extra packs will allow me to expand and also field a Babylonian army for my preferred Basic Impetus rules army range.

If you don't know the Cutting Edge from Warlord range, they are quite "old skool" traditional 25mm figures and fit in with with old style Minifigs and such.  The 3 packs comprise 8 x archers, one light chariot, 8 x medium spear. 

skirmish archer bases for basic impetus

 

Left over odd archer will be based as chariot runner on existing other chariot

Driver converted from older javelin figure - quite hard to fit two figures into the cab

Painted pack pre-basing - the last 9th figure is the second option chariot warrior

Skirmisher javelin base

Light Foot Spear base - odd figures left based as chariot runners elsewhere 

 

Points wise that should be 16 figures @ 5 = 80, plus light chariot and warrior =25, plus library HISTORY room bonus = 20 so 125 all together. 

Have a great week painting everyone.

Cheers Jez

Great job overall. Seeing a lot of multi based models today, and all like this are looking amazing! Great work here! 125 points for you! Kyle

From IannickM - Canaanite Javelinmen (60 Points)

My second submission of the Challenge, and probably my last "alive" unit for awhile is a unit of Canaanite skirmishers, in this case javelinmen. 

Canaanite infantry (hupshu) was made-up of both militia and regular units. Most of the infantry were semi-trained militia or conscripted peasantry, who were lightly armed with spears or bows. Canaanite tradition dating from tribal days dictated that the infantrymen supplied their own equipment, but it is unclear whether this still applied into biblical times. Canaanite semi-formed infantry and skirmishers were mainly used as support to the main shock troops, the chariots.

The figures are from the Biblical range from Foundry, sculpted by the Perrys it seems eons ago but still today some of their best work in my humble opinion. The figures are based on 50mm squares, a size I really enjoy for 28mm multibase projects. It gives a nice skirmish look with 3 per base, but it also works for 6 figures per base for regular units.

The colour scheme is conjectural, of course, and purists will probably say that my blue and red are too bright. But with all that skin I wanted some vivid colours to create contrasts. I've used that very limited palette of red, pale blue and raw linen on all my infantry, to give them a unifying theme.

I've been building that Canaanite army for quite a few years now (veterans of the challenge may remember the project), which is somewhat of an oddity in my case. Usually I build an army, or part of an army, and then move to other projects but I keep coming back to this army. Really, it seems to be my "palate cleanser" between projects, and I do a unit here and a unit there.

It has become a good looking and almost complete force; a few more Chariots if I ever find the courage (I don't like painting Chariots) and it would be complete.

Here is a picture of the force as it currently stands. The newly painted animals work quite well too to give some atmosphere to the force.

Apologies for the average picture, it was taken in my cabinet with 
a cellphone as I felt too lazy to put on a proper photography 
setting and take all the units on the table.

So that's 12 x 28mm figures. A small but satisfying 60pts for this week.

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A very nice looking unit and a nice bit of history too. Personally I like the colours on these, I don't think the reds and blues look too startling but they do add 'something' to what would otherwise be a monochromatic colour pallet. 60 points it is. 

Lee