"New Shilluk Warriors in 28mm" Topic
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Tango01 | 06 Oct 2018 3:35 p.m. PST |
"The Shilluk Kingdom was located along the banks of the White Nile river in modern South Sudan. Its capital and royal residence was in the town of Fashoda. According to their folk history and neighboring accounts, the kingdom was founded during the mid-fifteenth century CE by its first ruler, the demigod Nyikang. During the nineteenth century, the Shilluk were affected by military assaults from the Ottoman Empire and later British colonization in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. The Shilluk king is currently not an independent political leader, but a traditional chieftain within the governments of South Sudan and Sudan. The monarchy (the Reth) has been political and religious in nature. The monarch guaranteed social order; his health and the health of the nation were intertwined. Worship is performed in rituals inspired by the national myth of Nyikang, the first Reth. The Shilluk monarchy and the beliefs of its people was studied in 1911 by Charles Seligman and in 1916 by British anthropologist James George Frazer in The Golden Bough. Seligman described the Shilluk form of government as a "sacred kingship"." From Wiki
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Glengarry5 | 06 Oct 2018 4:35 p.m. PST |
I never heard of these guys until now and now I want them! Ack! |
Tango01 | 07 Oct 2018 3:20 p.m. PST |
Glad you like them my friend!. (smile) Amicalement Armand
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kallman | 07 Oct 2018 6:43 p.m. PST |
Rest assured that Mark Copplestone did his research as I have found with all his miniatures. I had not heard of them either till I saw the Darkest Africa line had new packs added. While these are cool, I would like to see him expand more with British, a mountain gun for the East German Africa and more varieties of Askaris and Rugga Rugga. |
FlyXwire | 08 Oct 2018 6:09 a.m. PST |
Agree with Kallman's sentiments/wants/suggestions. |
Tango01 | 08 Oct 2018 11:14 a.m. PST |
Glad you like them too boys!. Amicalement Armand |
Henry Martini | 08 Oct 2018 6:52 p.m. PST |
It does seem odd to have selected for the first sculpts in his return to DA a couple of obscure tribes when there are so many gaps to be filled in existing armies and more historically important forces needing representation. Shilluk and Dinka surely can't be at the top of Darkest Africa players' want lists. |
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