Assyrian army

Assyrian army
Showing posts with label Sarmatia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sarmatia. Show all posts

Wednesday, 26 November 2025

SA1 Sarmation infantry with spear and shield.

 

When sorting the ex-Harry Gauls I found a number of Sarmations filling out the ranks. I've now rescued these and put them together as Sarmations.

Normally, a figure such as this would be LMI rather than LI, but the DBA list I'm using has them as LI so...

At some time in the future I will, however, do a lot more and use them as 'Greek Black Sea infantry' on LMI bases, as well as using them in any Dacian army I may or may not do! 


Monday, 5 January 2015

Sarmatia

Or, my Christmas project.

Already had the horse archers painted and thought it might be an idea to add a few lancers. They still need some work, including basing and varnishing, but I'm getting there.

This will never be a big army; possibly a couple more units of cavalry and a few infantry, so it should be completed by the end of this year. Of course, I've said similar things before... Possibly I'll use it as  an 'Arthurian' force in a future battle with some of my Irregular Romans facing hordes of Celts (rather than Saxons)?

 Lancers covered by horse archers. Perhaps another unit of each as a basic army, with one of the horse archer units being in a 'close' formation?
 The horse archers were not originally issued by Garrison.  I found the master and made two different one-piece castings of the figure - one on an armoured horse, one unarmoured.
  The lancer is the original Garrison figure. I will probably do a third unit on unarmoured horses. Never been able to work out how to paint horn armour so I always do them with metal armour!
The standard bearer was originally just the lancer with a standard instead of the lance.