"The State of Biblical Wargaming in Light of Recent Releases" Topic

The world of 28mm Biblical gaming has certainly changed in last few years. Saying it's not popular is not really true anymore. Can never compete with Napoleonics …but not many periods can.
Warlord Games have done wonders in presentation of Cutting Edge ranges along with fantastic articles on website by the great Nigel Stillman.
Now North Star are getting going on Kadesh range things have not looked better. I am anxious of course re completion of range and plan to put first painted bow unit on blog this week.

The state of my biblical wargaming remains "unpainted"…. I have a ridiculous army of Foundry NKE to one day paint, bought back when I had a reasonably well paid job that demanded far too many hours, and a Redoubt Trojan wars force to get through too. I really ought to get a Hittite army to go with them. Maybe when I retire….

I am still to paint figures from Foundry bought in the 90s. The main issue now is which companies to buy from. Foundry range still best all round so far (and selling well still) but newer releases are increasing in size and harder to mix. Loved the days when new 28mm seemed to match Foundry.

Too many unbelievers…

Newline had promised Mitannians…..

In 1/72 Caesar have released some lovely sets that you can expand with the range of Newline figures.

Assyrians are also made by HaT.

Lots of scope to create Biblical armies.

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The unpainted horde of 28mm Trojans and Greeks waits for primer and eventually paint. This is my second 25mm Trojan War army. The first one I sold off in 2001 when I moved to Hay, KS. I'm not going to do that again…

Blake

My planned Assyrians haven't been removed from their Immortal Miniatures packaging yet.

Need plastic miniatures in 28mm to really set it off and running.

I also have a (largely unpainted) Assyrian army. Unpainted seems to be a theme for Biblicals!

Dear List

I primarily do Renaissance and 18th century but a strange concatenation of events which need not concern us here I acquired a little while ago two armies of 15mm (which I don't do, I do all 28mm) of New Kingdom Egyptians and Early Assyrians.

I guess that's sort of Biblical. I'm going to get two more armies to go along with them.

Well I ginned up a set of rules for them, quite simple, under the name of "Honey I Sacrificed the Kids: wargaming in the age of the Sword and Sandal."

think of it as a game designed by C.B DeMille.

We had a playtest of it at the recent "Weekend Convention" in Lancaster and it went rather well. The game does not use dice, it uses "throwing sticks" as the ancients did and the throwing sticks are also movement measuring devices. If anyone would like a copy to try out just send me your postal address at sigurd@eclipse.net and I'll send you a copy.

You'll have to make your own throwing sticks (no you can't replicate it with dice) but that can be done by using popsicle sticks from AC Moore.

The game will have a rudimentary campaign added on a bit later and will have four countries.

The Empire of Pharonica Veronica – Think of Ancient Egypt in the idea of "Carry on Cleo."

The Kingdom of Ososerious – grim Assyrian thpes always piling up columns of heads and erecting Steeles with depressing boasts on it.

The Land of Schlockem and Glockamorrah- Sin filled cities taken over by ancient celts. I figured to let the Irish have some fun in this alternate history in the land of Milk and Honey. Come and embrace the golden calf- ankle and thigh and upper half!

The Seadudes- The Minoans. No bull!! What's not to like about a country where the women go about topless.

I recently started my chariot armies. All are by Irregular miniatures in 6mm. Currently painting Assyrians but have Egyptian and Hittites, with a few Hebrew and Syrian allies in small numbers. Very happy, so far, with the results.

I'm finally getting around to my Biblical armies. Just finishing off a Sumerian force, with Egyptian, Hittite, Sea Peoples, Nubian, Libyan, and Arabs to follow. All in 1:72! (Probably about 1000 figures waiting to be painted for Hail Caesar and Impetus)

Without the worry of shield designs hard plastic Biblical 28's would see another Renaissance in the period I'm sure. Sumero-Akkadians (fighting each other) and Kadesh period would be optimal choices I imagine.

I have a very nice pair of Foundry armies, Syro-Canaanite and Sea Peoples/Philistine, they are actually partially painted. Several small units each.

I have the King David rules, Holy Hack, and War&Conquest as well as WAB Chariot Wars.

Despite the beauty of the new 28mm figures, I find myself drawn to doing bigger armies with smaller figures. I do do have a 2mm Kadesh set and can tell Hittites from NKE

While I'm a very hard-core atheist who avoids firebombing churches only because he loves frescoes and organ music, I know the Bible pretty well. Where the heck do the Trojans come into the story?

Roughly contemporaneous Sobieski. Troy and the Exodus. There was a saying that nothing happened in Jerusalem that wasn't learned quickly in Athens. The two worlds were intimately connected through antiquity.

Any armies from the Land Of Nod?