15mm Carthaginians

 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 cavalry to two to a base Javelin Cavalry for Triumph. 

Javelin Cavalry (including General)
Poeni horsemen

figures LtoR: Essex, Forged in Battle.


figures: Essex with Forged in Battle Generals.

figures: Old Glory except rider on right who is FinB.



figures: Essex.

Javelin Cavalry
Spanish horsemen
figures: Essex.

Javelin Cavalry
Numidian horsemen
figures: Old Glory.

Heavy Foot
Libyan heavy infantry armed with spears.
figures: Essex.

Warriors (with General)
Gallic tribesmen mercenaries
figures: Old Glory, Quick Reaction Force, FinB, Essex.

Light Foot
Libyan, Numidian javelinmen
figures LtoR: Forged in Battle, Old Glory.

Light Foot
Spanish mercenaries
figures: Essex, QRF

Skirmishers
Balearic slingers
figures: Essex.
Skirmishers
Libyan javelinmen

figures: QRF, Essex.

Skirmishers
Numidian javelinmen 
figures: Old Glory.

Elephants
African elephants



figures: Old Glory.
figures: Museum Elephants, Old Glory crew.















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