Saturday 28 December 2019

Imagine-Ancients

















I referred in my previous post to the Bathelas Campaign being organised by Henry Hyde.
Henry is basing this on the sort of campaigns fought in the past by Tony Bath, using ancient armies ranging anything from 3000BC to 1500AD. It means participants can paint any figures from the broad ancients-medieval era, and it will get fitted in. In true old school style, all protagonists create a country name and so on, and the umpire will run the campaign. Henry has done a very fine job of creating a map and there are about 10 or so players building up forces.
I'm referring to this as Imagine-Ancients gaming.

My own army is that of the fictional state of Macadamia... a sort of Alexandrian Successor style force (don't worry, the pun about them all being 'nuts' has already been done!)

I've just completed this unit of Greek-ish (Thesalian style, but not quite) cavalry.



















This adds to the force which had lain dormant for a couple of years, and brings it along nicely.

Here is the army so far...


















And the commander, Philipolytas The Great, plus Army Standard Bearer.





I need to add another phalangite (pike) unit (at least) and an elephant is also in the offing.
I'm likely to add some Thracians, plus some Cretan archers aswell at some point, and some Macedonian light cavalry (Prodromoi). and so it goes on...

It makes a change from horse and musket figures, and sometimes a change is as good as a rest!

11 comments:

  1. You know my love for Ancients and this ticks all the boxes.
    I shall watch with interest

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    1. Indeed Graham. I'm enjoying it as a break from horse and musketry. Best regards. Phil

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  2. A handsome force so far. Eager to see how this develops, which will help scratch my occasional ancients itch vicariously speaking.

    Best Regards,

    Stokes

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    1. Happy to be of service Stokes! Best regards. Phil

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  3. Fantastic project, you cannot go wrong with Ancients, not to mention Ancients through the lens of Tony Bath. The grip of Airfix ancient Britains and Romans never leaves the soul. Where can I read more about this project? What rules are you going to use?

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    1. The campaign is being run by Henry Hyde. It's very early stages at the moment, and the players are rather scattered all over the uk, with armies in varying states of preparation. No actual action yet. I've got more about the army I'm building on the Macedonian Successors page of this blog. Going to be interesting. Best regards. Phil

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  4. What rules are you using for this Ancient project ?

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    1. We are using WAB 1.5 for this. My successors are from a cobbled together online army list from way back. I've taken some liberties with troop types but all within the spirit of the campaign. Best regards. Phil

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  5. Lovely work, love the not quite Thessalians

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    1. Thanks Peter. They are nice figures (Aventine miniatures). Very enjoyable to paint. Best regards. Phil

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  6. Going well and looking very good!

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