Seleucid cataphracts

Greeting Blogonians,

So finally Russ has an update on his Seleucid army! C'mon its only been about 6 months -that's practically meteoric for me.....

Anyways...

I've pretty much cleaned up the majority of my miniatures and undercoated a good deal of them. I plan to complete the entire army and then go back and do the basing in one huge final step - mainly so I do the same thing and keep the army cohesive. I tend to forget what I did to make it look that way so I figured that would the safest step.

I've started on the cavalry. My cataphracts are complete, my camlery should be completed tonight and hopefully by the end of the weekend I'll have my companions complete. After that its the chariots, elephants and the command stands. Then all of the infantry.......sigh such a huge phalanx...
Here's some pics of the completed cataphracts....







Seeya
Russ

Russ' Seleucid Empire of Vastness

Howdy to the WWW,

So I was in Europe for 4 weeks back in May/Jun 08 for a couple of weddings and a generally fantabulous time. When I return to the great land of Oz Millsy and his cohort Pete (Nug) tell me that they have decided to play a new wargame. Ok I said hesitantly. Which one? Field of Glory was the reply and we are doing the armies in 15mm. My first thought is ELEPHANTS! I then thought hmmm perhaps reading a list or two and mayhap even the rules would be a good second step. So part of the second step complete (reading lists) I decided upon on army. I choose the Late Seleucid list for a couple of reasons
1 Elephants (of course!)
2 Scythed Chariots (historically poor units but way cool looking!)
3 Camelry - why have horses when you can have camels - I mean really?
4 I'd like to pretend there were more practical (or even tactical) reasons for my decision but sadly the above pretty much covers why I now have a huge phalanx to paint....

Ok so here is the list I came up with after looking through the FOG forums and getting some advice from Millsy and Nug. This won't be always the list I play as I like to have variety – sometimes I’ll swap Elephants for Chariots or Thureophoroi for Galatian warriors but the basics will remain the same.

Command
1 x C-in-C [Field Commander] - 50pts
1 x Troop Commander - 35pts
1 x Troop Commander - 35pts

1 x Troop Commander - 35pts

Core Troops

4 x Companions [Cavalry, Armoured, Elite, Drilled] - 80pts

6 x Cataphract [Cataphract, Heavily Armoured, Superior, Drilled] - 120pts

12 x Phalanx [Heavy Foot, Protected, Average, Drilled] – 72 pts

12 x Phalanx [Heavy Foot, Protected, Average, Drilled] – 72 pts

8 x Archers [Medium Foot, Unprotected, Poor, Undrilled] - 24pts

8 x Slingers [Light Foot, Unprotected, Poor, Undrilled] - 16pts

8 x Slingers [Light Foot, Unprotected, Poor, Undrilled] - 16pts

6 x Thureophoroi [Medium Foot, Protected, Average, Drilled] - 48pts

8 x Argyraspids [Heavy Foot, Armoured, Superior, Drilled] - 112pts

Optional Troops

2 x Elephants [Elephants, -, Average, Undrilled] - 50pts

4 x Arab Camelry [Camelry, Unprotected, Poor, Undrilled] - 40pts

Total 805 pts

Tomorrow I’ll go through how I choose my miniatures and give you some pics of the in progress stuff (and the pile of metal still to go.....)

Yours,

Russ.