Persian Infantry in 6mm IanW MONDAY 54 points

I add a little bit to my Baccus Persian 6mm army by adding the first Levy infantry into the mix. Eventually I will have to have about thirty of these units, possibly a fair few more. All depends on how I grow the Macedonian army.

I have painted up three units of 36 figures, two are all spear armed whilst the third is bow and spear. I wanted another colour fest and used twelve different colours just for the tunics.

The shields are for the vast majority just made up symbols, I gave up looking for what may have been accurate designs, towards the end I stumbled on Persian alphabet images so the odd letter creeps into the mix.

I occasionally allow my humour to get the better of me, here we have happy and sad, I reason that like the other abstract designs these won't really show up at a distance. Really though I can live with it.

Unit two has mostly a blue theme in tunics where the first was red, this is also backed up with the standards showing the key colours. This will help tie units together on the table.

A better view of the tunics and as you can see lots of different colours. Persian Levy infantry as the name suggests are not the type of troops you really want to be facing off against the Pike, I guess I will be having some hard knocks in our games.

The last unit has one rank of spear and two of bow. These will have a reduced effect in close combat but hopefully they will be facing troops they have already weakened on the way in. I hope so or they will be rather easy prey.

These will be part of the blue formation, I actually remembered to put the dice cells on these, that is I JUST remembered to add them! So that makes me 54 points which means I should be able to cruse for the last week or so. I have the final week off work for my Birthday so expect that week to have a few more units done.

Next week may see the Persian cavalry for these and some of the promised ECW 6mm. Infact apart from maybe a couple of cowboys the rest of my submissions will all be 6mm.

More epic scale 6mm goodies here Ian.  Great work on these Persian sarissa fodder units.  The en masse shot at the top his particularly effective.  I love the time put into the shields on the spear armed troops.  And I do enjoy your sense of humour, plus the fun of trying to find them.  I remember hearing of a Byzantine army at a WRG ancients tourney in the early 80s that featured happy faced shields.  Am I allowed to make Surf comparisons on the blue unit?

54 points for these three units, bringing you to within 11 points of your re-upped 1000 point target.  Well done, and I really enjoyed your work this challenge.  Enjoy your coast to the finish line and your birthday celebrations.  I have one upcoming too, but I am hoping to get some painting time in on my day off!

From IanW 15mm Persian V Macedonian Cavalry (144 points)

The first of these could just as easily been my nostalgia round entry as I have painted up my fair share of Persian heavy cavalry in my time. All the Persians are the old Chariot Miniatures figures before they became Magister Militum, so they really are old school.

Pics will be a bit hit and miss as we have snow and so outside shots are no go. These will act as two units of Persian heavy cavalry in both Hail Caesar and Field of Glory with a total of 24 figures.

My original plan was to paint up the cloths with patterns but in the end went plain as the rest of my army are mostly single colour tunics etc. Besides switching colours all through the painting process was already enough for me :-)

I did do a different pattern on each of the bow cases but that was really the limit. I was already looking at the other cavalry with an eye to get them in for today as well.

I still found time to have a little fun, anyone spot the birdie? I was lucky enough to get two days off this week so used them mostly for painting these guys up.

Next up are someone to fight them, these twelve can be used as Agema or Companions at a push. My Persian army is really as complete as it should be, I can add a few units for the sake of it but don't need to. My Macedonian (and offshoots) still need more options, especially cavalry.

I bought these at Triples last year with the intention of painting them up soon after purchase but they slipped out of my mind until I was prepping for the challenge and added them to the clean up pile.

Compared with the Persians they were a quick paint, I will be buying another unit or two of cavalry at Triples this year probably basic companion cavalry, hopefully I won't wait nearly a year to paint them.

So 36 15mm cavalry should score me a respectful 144 points and get me within ten of my original target, oh so close LOL.

Ian I nearly did a spit take with my Sunday morning coffee when I first saw the post.  Then I realized that these were not 6mm figures, but 15mm.  This reduced my reaction from "Egads man, what wizardry is this" to "geez I wish I could get these results".  Anyway, as someone whose painted up a lot of figures from the this era, I say these are excellent!  I am looking forward to seeing more of these horse boys.  

I very much like these proper old school armies you building.  None of this cross dressing robotic stuff  or trying to compensate for shortcomings by building impossibly large SF tanks that you see these days, but real armies that you would see in Charles Grant's or Featherstone's books.  

I had some Chariot figures from their French Revolutionary range and really enjoyed painting them.  I hadn't realized their fate, but its great to know that they still exist.

I particularly like the Agema with the face masks and horse armour, likely too heavy for Alex's time but great for the early successors.  I can imagine Antigonus One-eye or Eumenes of Cardia fielding both the Agema and the Asiatic cavalry in the same force.  

I will also note that you seem to have traded one form of insanity for another.  Not content with individually mounted pikes in 6mm hands, you are simultaneously building the same armies in two different scales.