"Amazon Armies Poll" Topic

Amazon Armies:

A) are Ridiculous.
B) I am a proud owner of one.
C) I own one, but am not proud. (This poll is anonymous right?)
D) No opinion (really? no opinion on this?)
E) Other

I married one.

I own several and female units in mixed forces. Who wouldn't want a Hasslefree's Libby link leading their girls to battle.

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PS You missed the "Needs More Boobies" board

Just waiting for Peter Pig to come out with beret-wearin', Uzi-totin' females, and my AK-47 presidential guard unit will be complete.

Is "I wish there were better Amazon options for 15mm" option?

I want one in 15mm. But there are no decent figs available as Little Big Wars point out. So…I'd be a "B" if I could.

F) are tribesmen from South America.

B) & then some:
I have a classical Greek Amazon army including Skythian-style horse archers.
I have a Sisters of the Blade army for Reaper's Warlord game.
I have a Sisters of Battle army for 40K.
I have an all female Dwarf army also for Reaper's Warlord game.
I have a THW Star Army force made up of Shadowforge Star Marines (they were originally an Imperial Guard army for 40K).

All other forces I have, have a mix of female & male miniatures. They're all 28mm.

Why should guys have all the fun.

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"Just waiting for Peter Pig to come out with beret-wearin', Uzi-totin' females, and my AK-47 presidential guard unit will be complete."
They have 'em. I have a unit…but ..they have soft covers, not berets

G) Have several.

Blood Bowl, Norse Valkyries team.
DBA, unpainted Trey Corbies Celts
DBA, conversions underway for the quite historical Tang army of Princess Pingyang

B) One Amazon army – mostly Shadowforge minis with the latest two units being Wargames Factory Amazons and Foundry War Nymphs

Have some mixed units as well – mostly WH40K Guard

Gave my daughter one for Mighty Armies. She is getting tiger riding cavalry for her birthday.

Amazon Armies? Are they out on the Kindle yet?

B) Well, if you count the IJN Ground Force 34th Company with the 3rd SSDF Fleet; All female, authorised to use a dress uniform of standard 'samurai' body armour painted yellow with black stripes, while field uniform is dark grey. Known for their use of support robots and AI drones or 'Think Tanks', they are known most commonly as "The Brides Of Frankenstein" ( GZG Minis. Blame them. )

Not armies (not yet, anyway…), but plenty of troopers in integrated sci-fi units, plus a small force of "Amazon Auxiliary Corps" troopers and "Fembots" for Starguard. Will eventually get around to putting together a fantasy chariot force ala the gals from the movie Gladiator…

Oh, and yes, *I* too married one as well (and thank the gods she's on my side!).

Leland R. Erickson

Not sure about the proud or not part. I own one and like to pair it up with Wood Elves.

Thanks,

John

Things which are once thought ridiculous have a habit of becoming mainstream eventually.

B)
I my active wargaming time I painted some 1500 minis, all female -diverse enough to re-fight (with a lot of good will when it came to 'count as) most of classical Ancient / Dark Ages / 'Peplum movies' peplums.blogspot.com battles.
The core of the 'regulars' came from the Minifigs 'Aureola Rococo' range, including several chariot, elephant and artillery crews. Indian Maiden Guard for peltatst, Tsolyani light javelin maiden, concerted 'nudes' for LI slingers and Xbowgirls. A pike phalanx of 64 Grenadier. Not many 'Greek-type' Amazons, the Archive &c… ones were rather ugly. Khmer maiden guards for EHC, Grenadier panther riders on caparisoned horses for knights. Various mounts (wolves, wingless birds, bipedal dinosaurs…) counted as 'camel'. D&D 'characters' for most of the 'irregulars'.
Fortunately for my bank account, I retired before knowing Shadowforge, Maidenhead, Eureka…

The McBrides own a very fine ladies-and-tigers army from Thane's games, now Lone Gunman. They are excellent figures and it is a beautiful array.

I have done three amazon armies in 15mm… I did a nude Greek-style army for HotT and a Libyan Egyptian (Libyan Amazon) army for DBA using Museum, and a Skythian-style (Thermidon River Amazon) using Falcon. I am working on a 28mm Libyan Amazon army for DBA 3.0 using Shadowforge.

B if Sisters Of Battle count

Maybe you need a "not yet but someday" option.

I'm now chin-deep in 18th C. Imagi-Nations TMP link and (fortunately for my bank account) the Eureka 'Sandras' range link is 'on hold' for years -and what is done is difficult to obtain (does not appear on the Eureka site):

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Otherwise, despite my 'retirement' from active wargaming I fear I'd built at least a 'Maiden Guard' for some imaginary 18th C. Ruritania-like mini-country.
Recent relevant TMP threads: 18th C. female soldiers, winsome warriors and cute assassin:
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Relevant TMP board: TMP link

Cavegirls wargaming blog: cavegirlwargaming.blogspot.com

Ancient Amazons campaign rules and setting: aryiki.com/a/Default.aspx
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If you take Herodotus too literally you'll end up with Iranian hill-goatmen and giant scorpions.

Is "I wish there were better Amazon options for 15mm" option?

That would get my vote.

I recently picked up some of the Museum Miniatures 15mm Nude female archers link
and would like to be able to build a whole army. I e-mailed them to ask if they could produce a bigger range of nude females – I was thinking of horse archers and hoplites, but they said no.

"If you take Herodotus too literally you'll end up with Iranian hill-goatmen and giant scorpions."

The fantasy RPG Runequest must have taken hi at his word, as the two major Chaos-worshipping races were the Broo (Chaos goatmen) and the Scorpion Men (Scorpion centaurs)…

…. Hmmm… there's a thought…

Leland R. Erickson

I have a box of Wargames Factory Amazons, and I have the perfect command figure as well :

Not irrelevant link (cavegirls) – + nostalgia value for us
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Camp followers only – morale points, except on shipboard where you can't tell the difference up to a certain point.

I don't do armies just skirmish and I have plenty of female skirmish groups from Ancient Greek themed amazons to pulp lady air pirates to female zombie apocolpse survivors to scifi female aliens.

My first Necromunda gang were Eschers!
And my first army were Eldars (kinda girly too although it was all male IIRC :)

But as a married men I grew out of all-female armies idea..
I consider them silly, especially in bikini armor and giant boobs wear serving as ballistic protection :)

So in most instances
C

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(but i plan 15 mm evil nun platoon from Khurasan in the future !

D.

B. Both Greek and Medieval.

E. Thread necromancer amazons.

Just sayin'.

E) I own none, but I want to have one

either African style or mythological skythian/greek style. Started a request to support this with Eureka Club300

C. I have a HOTT one, butt naked too – Hellenic style (Museum minis)

I ain't proud, no sirree :)

A, but that doesn't stop me from wanting one.

I'm looking at a couple of HOTT armies on 90mm bases -Amazons and other Greek mythology stuff using the Foundry range.

Hi, I'm Catdancer…just joined yesterday. I am currently working on an Amazon Army (private collection…not for game play)…but my fantasy vision of Amazons is not the armour clad & weapon laden ladies…but well endowed and scantly clad ladies like the ones in movies like (1 Million B.C….etc). If anyone has any suggestions for such miniature figures (25-28mm)…please advise. Thanks loads!

(F)

I wish there were more 40mm Amazonian figs. Have the Hasslefree figure and considering buying more and converting/changing pose. But wish there were more options available. Come on Hasslefree a few more poses wound not go a miss. Go on make my day

*cough* It's just a matter of scale. Who says all my mecha and starships are not Amazon/Medusa forces? :-)

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