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Thurlac writes:

They're pretty but "the best Hittite range ever"?
Nah.

The musicians?
Ooh, well actually I know what Hittite musicians look like because I've seen the Egyptian talatat with them on. They don't look like this not that there is there any evidence for them accompanying the army.

Standard bearers?
Standard bearers eh?
From where please?
What are they meant to represent?

The armour is, ahem, interesting: cross chest scale mail bandanas? Really? How sweet.

They're pretty but they aren't authentic.
Some of the figures are there, I presume, to make up Warhammer Ancient Battles units.

As for Qadesh, the Egyptian sphere of influence contracted 80 miles South and the Egyptian field army didn't emerge from the Black Land for a century.

If you read the diplomatic texts from after the Battle, Ramses II went absolutely ape when the Hittites dropped a hint about the outcome. Alas, the Hittites were not such great self publicists as the Egyptians.


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Matt Fletcher of Foundry writes:

THE RETURN OF THE HITTITES...

...AND THEIR ENEMIES AND ALLIES

HIT7 Hittite Armoured Chariot

Hattusilis the First united the Hattic kingdoms to found the Hittite Empire, and successive kings gradually conquered the surrounding regions. Later, Muwatalli defended Hittite gains in Syria against the Egyptians, inflicting a defeat on them in a massed chariot battle at Kadesh.

CSM1 Canaanite, Mitanni, Syrian, Command

This range includes Hittite infantry and the indomitable Hittite chariots, as well as their allies (and sometime enemies) from other parts of the ancient world.

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