"Favorite Chariot Empire?" Topic

Which of the various empires that used chariots as weapons of war is your favorite?

Hard choice, because I've got Assyrian, Egyptian, Persian and Celtic armies… but probably Assyrian, though not one recognised by current army lists!

I have unpainted lead for Ancient Egyptians, Assyrians, Early Hebrew, and Philistines. Have no idea which one to start painting first.

I already have Persian and Gallic. Maybe I am a chariot nut and didn't realize it.

I've always liked the Hittites, mostly based upon reading about their cities and architecture and the tantalizing glimpses into their diplomacy provided by the surviving cuneiform tablets. They were interesting people.

Mycenaeans and Trojans.

Qin Dynasty China

Assyrians – but I wouldn't want to live there!

Vedic Indians.

Hare, hare Krishna!

Summerian and Egypt

Mittani — more wheels than any others.
And go Kurds!

1) Hittites
2) Hollywood Chariot Racers

Hittites.

New Kingdom Egyptians for me!

Assyrians, baby!

Assyrians for me!

Qin China and New Kingdom Egyptian.

Like the look of the Sumerian horses. Assyrians for the paint schemes and Egyptians for the great chariot engineering.

Sumerians.

I have British Celtic chariots and loads of Egyptians and I like the look of both – but there's something wonderful about the chariots of Sumer.

New Kingdom Egyptians and Myceneans/Sea Peoples.

Assyrian.

NKE. Problem is that you get one chariot army, you need another to fight against!

Btw if this were fantasy, I'd vote Khemri tomb kings. There is a connection between my picks. :-)

Israeli with Merkavas-which means chariot.:)

For sure, a chariot is a sweet ride:

YouTube link

I can't pick just one.

Hittites

Mitanni

Only two ancient armies I ever seriously wanted to collect were New Kingdom Egyptian and Israel. So NKE would be my choice.

Seleucid – Spiky Death Machines rock.

Goblin.

New Kingdom Egypt

Gee, what can I say…Assyrians for sure…Late Sargonids/ Ashurbanipal (Assur-bani-ipal) by choice <grin>!

Since I've started painting up my mountain of lead for the pseudo-Trojan War project, I'm going with Trojans and assorted allies, and the Mycenaeans.

It surprises me that some enterprising company hasn't added more variety in 15mm for this period. While Essex, MY, OG15s, Mag. Militum, Museum, and Black Hat all make figures for the period, there just isn't enough variety and I'm having to press in Assyrians and Etruscans to fill out the ranks. While all of the companies mentioned above have some good figures, they just don't match up to the 'wow' figures available for the period in 25/28mm.

Sumer with onagers pulling battle carts
John

Mitanni
NKE
Mycenean

All in 28mm
Mycenaean
Trojan
New Kingdom Egyptian
Hittite
Canaanite (just a few units to round out the NKE or Hittites)
Assyrian
Chinese (Qin and Han)
Ancient British (the starting of another project!)
I would have Sumerians but never found a good chariot/cart although I bought the infantry

Like someone else said – I must be chariot nut as well and remarkably, some of these armies are painted (but not all)!

You can see pictures of my NKE and Mycenaean armies in action in this War & Conquest battle report here link

Here at Scarab I have just commissioned some more figures to restart our NKE range, so expect to see more of that, and other chariot forces later in the year

Kind regards

Rob Broom
scarabminiatures.com
warandconquest.co.uk

Rob…great news. Need to revamp my NKE. I am in. Is other chariot forces Hittites? Always room for some more of them. Nice battle and report.

Hi Colin

Yes Hittites are the logical opposition along with some Mycenaean items I expect

Hittites for me. I built them in both 15mm and 25mm. Only have the 15mm now.

Mitanni (Mittani) for me, presumably, as it's the one I've got.

I've also got a few British chariots, but they hardly qualify as an "empire", and anyway I've only got a handful of them.