"15mm Pyrrhic Cavalry (Donnington "Originals")" Topic

Background

In 2024 I took a Late Macedonian army to the King in the North competition. I had originally planned to use borrowed figures, but was lucky enough to finish painting everything I needed in time for the October event. I wanted to begin with a fairly plain, almost "vanilla", Hellenistic army that I could adapt afterwards into other, more exotic forces.

As it turned out, the Late Macedonian army was perhaps a little too plain. It's very solid, but it lacks a certain something in competitions. There aren't quite enough units with real striking power, and I found myself relying too heavily on a small number of pike units to both hold the line and breakthrough.

After several competitions, I began browsing through the Art de la Guerre (ADLG) army lists to see what other options I might have. I briefly considered a Seleucid army, but eventually settled on a Pyrrhic army. That choice meant I needed to paint a few extra units: elephants, some hoplites, and of course some different cavalry.

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Nice, though I have found no evidence apart from the Tarentine cavalry, that Pyrrhic cavalry carried shields, this was a later development soon after Pyrrhus' death.