Oathmark Odyssey part six: More work In progress

 Small amount of progress on the army front.

The Elite Warriors are at full strength.

Okay, not quite full strength, I only have eight Muscle Cuirass bodies, there are two with Linen Cuirass and different helmets.

I also built two ranks of Hoplites with various headgear.

Oathmark Odyssey part five: Work In progress

So here are some work in progress shots of the Ancient Greeks and Spartans (which will be two of the  factions in my Oathmark Odyssey).

Faction One

Human Warriors 

Heavy Armour, hand weapon and shield. Bonus points if you spot the odd one out.

Human Spearmen

Light armour, spear and shield. there are a couple of interlopers.

Faction Two

Elite Spearmen

Light armour, spear and shield

Elite Warriors

Heavy armour, hand weapon and shield.

Oathmark Odyssey part four: Spartans

 The Spartan Hoplites box from Immortal Miniatures.

Those were the days when a box of figures cost £12.

Again the box says 24 figures, but there are at least three Ancient Greek sprues and four of the Spartan Hoplite sprues. Again, the count is probably ignoring the Bell Cuirass figures on the Ancient Greek sprues and counting only the available shields.

There is a decal sheet with the distinctive Spartan Lambda.

There is a booklet describing the Spartans and their equipment and colour schemes.

I have not assembled any hoplites, but I have assembled one as a Warrior for Oathmark. This uses the Muscle Cuirass and the Pilos helmet from the Spartan sprue and the Xiphos arm.

This is the only book I can currently find on the Ancient Greeks, though I should have a DBA rulebook and the WRG army list (volume 1) somewhere.

Oathmark Odyssey part one

So there I was, watching the snow falling in lockdown 3.1, and I looked at the Oathmark/Frostgrave figures I had assembled (and occasionally painted) and thought “I need to get away from all this snow and cold”.

Prompted by a blog post by Joe McCullogh (Spoiler) I borrowed a time machine and went back to… 2010.

Immortal Miniatures introduced a range of injection moulded plastic Greek Hoplites at Salute 2010. At the time there were three boxes:

Ancient Greek Hoplites

Classical Greek Hoplites

Spartan Hoplites

I love the price on those old boxes.

At the time, injection moulded 28mm figures for wargaming (beyond Games Workshop) was very new (that is my only excuse for the Perry's SOTR boxes I bought). So I bought all three (possibly over a couple of Salutes). And then they languished in my plastic figures pile for ten years.

Warlord Games purchased the range and they are still available. Wargames Illustrated number 398 (February 2021) had an Ancient Greek Hoplite sprue on the cover.

Next - Ancient Greek Hoplites.