From IanW Baccus Light Cavalry 47 Points

When I started painting these figures I not unreasonably thought they would be a quick paint, after all my Ancients in 6mm really get a quick going over, a splash of ink and on to the next unit. Well that works when they are uniform, not so well when they are all different colours!

First up five units of Saka horse archers, each of these are on a 60x60 base but unlike most of my Ancient units each base is really light on figures with only seven to a base.

Each unit is formed in a cantabrian circle, something that normally is shown on the wargames table as a rectangle. I now have seven of these units, probably more than I will ever need so Lee will probably be getting a couple of these for his other Ancient army. 

I used a total of twenty six different colours for the clothes across the five bases as well as eight different horse colours. This supplies a wealth of different colours and goes against the main rule I am painting these armies too. That being some form of colour connection but I am ok with that. These will be mostly used for my Persian army that I am just starting off, the last few weeks of the challenge will be seeing more of this army.

Next up are two bases (60x40) light cavalry with javelin. The bases are not as deep as the Saka as I reason they would not need the space to skirmish in as the Saka. Again being a skirmish unit they lack numbers. When I start the Persian infantry and cavalry units you will see a different story.

These are all Baccus and as such are very nice figures with little clean up work. These also painted up really quickly unlike their friends.

So these come in at 47 figures in total for 47 points. Nothing like the bombs that arrived on Saturday but it does add a fair amount of units to my armies.

Hordes of light cavalry from the Steppes, I just love these Ian.  The detail that you have put in making these bases into little dioramas is stunning.  The Saka are particularly lovely in their circles.  And I have just noticed that you have painted blazes and stars on your horses foreheads, you madman you!  

That's another 47 points to your lead in the 6mm side duel.  You may need these as I suspect a points bomb from Tamsin is due.