| Lagartija Mike | 18 Feb 2014 8:07 p.m. PST |
I'm contemplating an Early Minoan build, mostly 'cause I like the bizarre helmet/stark raving nooood dichotomy, but I'm looking for input from other Chariot Age aficionados….Celts could work too, but they seem overdone… |
| John the OFM | 18 Feb 2014 8:29 p.m. PST |
With a Mycenaean (or Trojan, if you prefer kidnapping the wives of your host…) army, you have a huge variety of Achaean Heroes from both Redoubt and Foundry. Both are beautiful figures, but I prefer redoubt.
Boar's tusk helmets and Dendra armor!
Your slingers can be as nekkid as you want. I have had both the Mycenaeans and Gauls, and both are fun and spectacular. |
| Timotheous | 18 Feb 2014 10:58 p.m. PST |
Of course, New Kingdom Egyptian look great, as you get heavy foot with your chariots, but my personal fav is Hittite Empire. I have them in 15mm and 25/28mm. |
| Oh Bugger | 19 Feb 2014 3:14 a.m. PST |
I recently bought Myceneans, Hittites and combined Sea Peoples and Libyan. Blackhat for the last two and Museum for the first all in 15mm. I'm still painting but they look pretty good so far and sizewise it all works. If you want backgound reading Drews The End of the Bronze Age and The Coming of the Greeks are very interesting. I'm going to use Pulse of Battle rules. |
| zippyfusenet | 19 Feb 2014 5:56 a.m. PST |
Mittanni, Syrians, Hyksos all offer vast fleets of colorful chariots. You can hire tribal allies for archers and psiloi. I loves my Mycenaeans, Sea Peoples, Syrians, Egyptians, Nubians, Beduin, Hebrews. Got to get around to Hittites soon and build my Babylonians into a real threat. Hallstat Celts would be different. Everyone else builds La Tene Celts to spar with their Romans and Greeks. The Hallstat Celts didn't go in big mobs stomping around the civilized countries, so we'd have to make some educated guesses about what their armies would look like: Fewer naked swordsmen, more naked spearmen. Maybe stone and wooden weapons for the poorer sort, stone or wood warclubs and arrow-heads, slings, throwing sticks. No mail shirts, maybe elaborate bronze armor for the highest nobles. No cavalry, maybe a good fleet of noble chariots. Um. I seem to be describing Bronze Age Northern Europeans. |
| Lagartija Mike | 19 Feb 2014 7:27 p.m. PST |
Ah! I can post! Second mysterious stifle in as many days. @Zippy, Foundry's generic Bronze Age figures look pretty solid as Hallstat Celts….I'm really looking into the Early Minoans as the way to go, with an Old/Middle Kingdom Egyptian 'cause the ahautya plumage looks cool …assuming I can find a range that duplicates that. Tho' I also like Foundry's early Sumerian with the protective cloaks and the onagers. |
| battle master | 19 Feb 2014 8:05 p.m. PST |
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| Lagartija Mike | 19 Feb 2014 8:39 p.m. PST |
@battlemaster, just checked them out they look good but the range is kinda limited (unsurprisingly given the subject). I'm idly sketching the outlines for an alt-bronze age campaign, wondering if any of you have had experience designing a large scale one… |
| battle master | 19 Feb 2014 8:44 p.m. PST |
Hi Mike, depends what you mean by limited? Every troop type you need for this period of the early and middle bronze age is covered. The Late bronze age is almost complete and the sea peoples and mycenaens are still to be completed. This blog on the Sumerian wars will hopefully give you some inspiration.
sumer2sargon.blogspot.com |
| zippyfusenet | 20 Feb 2014 6:14 a.m. PST |
Oh, you want to work in 25mm. I'm more a 15mm kind of guy – vast fleets of chariots, y'know. Do you think those Foundry BANE would paint up well as Dorian Greeks? Pterseus the Warlord? They could make interesting sparring partners for late Mycenaeans. |
| Lagartija Mike | 20 Feb 2014 12:58 p.m. PST |
Zippy I love big scale too, just needs to bein 401k busting 28mm…..don't think I'm familiar with the Bane line. Am looking at the Shang/Late Shang stuff, love the zoomorphic crudity more than the more developed Spring & Autumn+ stuff…..plus it's hard not to love a culture whose warm old' fashioned cracker barrel theology revolved around decapitation… |
| wballard | 29 Jul 2014 9:56 p.m. PST |
For a truly different chariot army look in the Islands in Sea of Fate trilogy by Sterling. Warning: time travel involved. And very early chariots riders(possibly proto-Celt) invading the island much later named
Britainica. Also, chariots with shot gunners and IIRC crude rocket launchers led by the last Mitanni princess have got to be game worthy. |
paints the prototypes for the Eureka Amazon Army.
