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15mm Saitic Egyptian 664-525 BC

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Saitic Egyptian was the last DBM army I started way back early in the century just before DBM sort of evaporated, started but never finished. Here I am twenty plus years later dusting it off and trying to get it into some sort of presentable shape in order to play DBA and Triumph, preferably at the triple command sized army.  When I abandoned this project it looks to have been close to three quarters done with most of the foot completed along with a small pile of chariot bodies and some of the horses. The plan is to shade and highlight the old figures and ( I just can't be arsed stripping anymore, it's always such an ugly mess    ), where able, mix them in with new figures on all new bases. Chariots What will be the model for my line chariots (I think another four to go plus three Generals). Had to paint over the chariot bodies, there had been some sort of frosting fiasco which may have contributed to me abandoning the project way back when. Levy spearmen I now have ...
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TDC VIII Bronze & Iron - Chariots against the Libyans.

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The line up: 15mm Historical miniature comparisons.

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 The historical version of the Fantasy line up, I'll post comparison shots when and if I collect enough different manufacturers of a particular troop type to make it worth while.
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15mm Polybian Roman

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 Polybian Romans next, the other shoe of the Carthaginian/Roman matching pair that you can't really go wrong with. There long history of conflict with each other and all their neighbours allow enormous scope for campaigns and scenarios with an all star cast of colourful personalities backed by most of the various peoples of the western Mediterranean. This all began as a Essex Camillan Roman blue box army from, I think, the mid to late nineties. It was my first DBA army and while most of them got sold off over the years some of the survivors can still be seen in the ranks, look for the big heads. TRIUMPH! Generals Javelin Cavalry (including General) Roman horsemen figures LtoR: Quick Reaction Force, War Modelling. DBx Generals Equites(DBx) figures:Essex Elite Foot (including General) Legionaries figures: Essex. Elite Foot (Red) Legionaries Triarii Principes Hastati figures: Essex. Elite Foot (Blue) Legionaries Triarii Principes Hastati figures: Essex. Elite Foot (Yellow) Legionarie...
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15mm Carthaginians

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 Carthaginians and Romans are a classic pair for ancient wargamers so this is almost a must have at some point.  As mentioned in my Ancient Greeks post, the beginnings of this army started something like twenty years ago with Greek Hoplites and other merc types so I could cludge together a Carthaginian army for a DBM tournament. It was pretty much forgotten after that but, much like all my projects, over the years I come back to it from time to time and add a little more and this is were we currently stand. I've touched up and partly repainted (to a greater or lesser degree as required) the old figures and mixed in some new ones to fill out the ranks just because bigger armies are always better armies. Lastly I've rebased the lot just for the sake of coherency since they're pretty much just a bunch of mercenaries. This is still an ongoing project and I'm still umming and ahing over how to base my cavalry since I'm not crazy about rebasing DBA three to a base cavalr...
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