"So What's Your Largest Ancients Army?" Topic

Which of your painted armies is most bigged?

Any scale?

28MM: Greeks, with Persians to be bought in near future.
1/72: Persians and Macedonians

2 15mm Republican Romans legions painted & 2 more unpainted.

Arthurians in 28 mm . 136 figs.

NKE and Hittites

Somewhere between 800 and 1000 25mm Ancient Arabs.

EIR in 28mm

NKE.

Before I sold off my Ancient armies, it would have been Gauls/Britons/Celts etc.
I bought more every time a new manufacturer came out with a new line.

The highlight of my Wargaming career came in a WRG tournament. 5th Ed? I was doing ok against an Alexander Macedonian army when I had a chance to charge Himself in the flank with my chariot borne bodyguards. In this particular iteration of the rules, I had to roll a reaction test to charge. Of course I wanted to go impetuous and get a +2! Three D6, and I rolled 1, 1, 1.
A 3 meant I routed.

Gauls in 28mm, about 400 of them.

The highlight of my Wargaming career came in a WRG tournament. 5th Ed? I was doing ok against an Alexander Macedonian army when I had a chance to charge Himself in the flank with my chariot borne bodyguards. In this particular iteration of the rules, I had to roll a reaction test to charge. Of course I wanted to go impetuous and get a +2! Three D6, and I rolled 1, 1, 1.
A 3 meant I routed.

The stuff of Legends. My Viking leader is called "Ragnar the Unlucky" because he does that kind of thing all the time

15mm

1350 Later Hoplite Greek, with another 525 still to do.

followed by

1100 Celts.

28mm Victrix Republican Rome and Carthage.

10mm Republican Rome.

900 Achaemenid Persians in 28mm.
Not used all at once though!

300 28mm Gauls

A lotta romans- republican + early,mid and late imperial.

1/72 barbarians – Celts, Germans, Dacians, Brits, they do alright for them all with some add-ons, chariots, falxmen etc.

It's a tie, Republican Romans and Greek Hoplites.

If I was to guess the Imperial Romans in 25mm/28mm largest group collection. Well over 1200 painted miniatures to cover several armies from 50 BC to 250 AD era. In total, the ancient miniature collection includes the following armies, each over 500+ painted miniatures.

Sumerian and Biblical
Egyptian with Hittite
Assyrian
Normad of the Steppes
Two different Chinese eras
Cambodian
Persian
Indian
Sucessor
Macedonian
Greek
Rome under the Kings period
Republican Rome
Imperial Rome in three eras
Late Roman
Sassanid
Various eastern states 100AD to 500 AD
Gauls
Britons
Germanic
Huns and Goths
Carthage

Then into the Dark ages and medieval periods for more collections.

My Southern California ancients gaming group play quarterly large 6k to 10k point per side, former WAB, now COE battles. Had eight players on last game 8/14/21 with a Successor vs. Successor historical battle. Before last weekend game, the Battle of Dara below with Sassanid vs. Late Roman.

EAP

Classical Greeks. 300 figures

Late Romans -- probably around 800 -- 1000 figures, not counting auxiliary Huns and so forth. No reason it's so large either; I just got in the habit of painting Romans and there always seemed to be more that needed to be done.

15mm = Franco Prussian French and German Multiple Corps for each side. Probably somewhere around 1200 painted figures and at least that left to be painted.

28mm = Middle to late Eastern Roman armies: 612 painted and I just got my Fireforge Plastic Byzantines so more on the way!

28mm Pontic. I wish I had all the Romans finished.

My 15mm Han Chinese army with 1400 figures. When my friend died I inherited his 15mm Seleucid army with about 1600 figures. I also inherited his painted 25-28mm ancient armies with about 5000 painted figures in 6 armies.

He had 2000 unpainted 25mm figures that I gave to HMGS to be sold to support the hobby.

Romans, I've got hundreds of those, and they all stand close together, so more figs per base. 20mm.

54mm punic wars – bigger figures than all my 28mm armies….

Gauls/Britons. One of my sons has the Romans.

Rick

28mm Macedonian. I hope soon that my 6mm armies will outstrip it

Somewhere over 1800 painted minis in my Hellenistic/Successor army- rising above 2500 when bolstered by my Greek hoplites.

@TMPWargamerabbit do you have any pictures of your Rome under the Kings period?

Used to be Celts in 28mm but I gave them to a buddy so right now it would be a very small Early Imperial Roman army

None anymore. I don't think I ever had an ancients army that was over 200 painted 28mm figures, and that was my Classical Indians.

About 10,000 6mm Hellenistic successors
The phalanx – all Rapier Miniatures

The battle of Raphia

Tie between 15mm Republican Romans and Greek Hoplites. A completely filled Plano box of each for DBA big battles.

There's also a Plano box filled with Celtoids; so three way tie for ground area of bases, but a bit fewer Celtic figures with all their chariots.

Given that I only have 2mm troops I have some pretty large armies.

8 EIR Legions with Auxilia. Paper strength and at 1:1 figure/man ratio. 40,000 figures.

Generic Celts. 50,000 infantry. 7,000 cavalry. 225 two horse chariots.

Greek/Macedonians. 20,000 hoplites. 18,000 pike.

Scythian/Sarmatian. 20,000 cavalry.

25/28mm Gauls

25mm Carthaginians, 350 unless I add Greek allies, then perhaps 450.

They won't all fit on my 6ft x 4ft table

25/28mm Late Romans (but then I did start them back in the 1980s and they get additional painted reinforcements every now and then). No idea on how many they number, far too many infantry and rather short on painted cavalry. Latest bunch are Roman civilians, who will be useful for Cthulhu Invictus at least, and the occasional wargames scenario

28mm: over 600 Byzantines.

pjm

Largest would be Elastolin Romans that I split in 2 for Roman Civil Wars. Most Numerous would be 15mm Seleucid with well over 800 figures including 7 elephants.

A Toss up between my late Romans and my Gauls over three hundred in each, but soon I think my Republicans will overtake both.

Late Republican Romans, although the Britons are catching up.

(This gets slightly definitional. The Late Bronze Age collection probably outnumbers the Romans, but they're not really a single army.)