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!