Sunday, 24 January 2021

Ian S - Last of the ancient Indians

 Hopefully this is the last of the Ancient Indians for my daughters army.  I say hopefully i have a habit of buying figures and putting them some where save only to forget i have brought them and order some more.

The army is based for use with a club set of rules written by one of our members Allan aka the hobbit, they can be found on the Farnbough war gaming society web page along with army lists and points system.  This set of rules has also been expanded to included fantasy.

First up i must apologise to the minions as i have no idea how many pts the figures earn me sorry!


These 3 heavy chariots along with a previously painted one make up a four base unit.

Next up are the last of the elephants for this army 



 
 
All figures are from the Z range of museum miniatures.  These elephants are some of the best sculpts i have seen for 15mm figures, the level of animation is not done justice by my attempts at painting.
In the rules we use at the club elephants are single base unit which hit hard and difficult to damage but once damaged they can go berserk and there is a good chance that they will attack there own side.  My family have a fondness for elephants with a Khmer army owned by my son with elephant artillery, not pulled along but a large crossbow on the back so not only is it good in melee but is effective at long range.  The most we have been able to field in a army  is 18. 


10 comments:

  1. Last of the army, As If! Good luck on that.
    Lovely work and the heffalumps are especially nice.

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  2. Lovely work, loved painting the elephants in mine and yours a great

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  3. Very colorful work! I painted a plastic 20mm Indian many moons ago and loved these units

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  4. Lovely colourful elements of this army, they're great!
    Best Iain

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  5. These are fantastic - the vibrant colours are lovely and it's always great to see war elephants.

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  6. Terrific work Ian. I've scored the chariots and elephants as vehicles and then gave you extra points for the crews.

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  7. Lovely work on this very colourful army.

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  8. Thankyou Curt.

    In collecting figures for Polish renaissance I found another unit of indian cavalry and enough figures for 2 units of light infantry.

    Really must organise my figures better.

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  9. Great Chariots and Elephants 👍
    Regards KenR

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  10. Very nice; elephants are always a treat.

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