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| Levy spearmen ready to fight against Rome! |
Continuing my divergence into 10mm figures, here we have some Enemies Of Rome. These figures are Sassanid Persian Levy Infantry from the great folks at Magister Millitum. As with the Romans, these figures are based for the Warmaster Ancients rules, and the three bases together comprise a unit for the game.
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| 10mm figures from Magister Millitum. |
These are basically test figures to see if I would like the Magister Millitum Sassanid miniatures...and I do! They are great to work with, lots of character and fun to paint, even though they are very small.
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| Just one unit...but have to start somewhere, right? |
The pattern on the shields was totally made up - and I don't even know if the Sassanids would have used such a pattern with their infantry, but at the end of the day their Empire was pretty large, and levy infantry could have come from any number of cities and cultures they ruled over. And there is a sort of nice generic aspect to spearmen in this scale...these could serve with Parthians (who ruled prior to the Sassanids) and even into the era of the Crusades...I mean levy spearmen are levy spearmen, and this was a type of troop that served throughout a tremendous number of years.
There are 30 castings in this submission here - at 10mm size, that works out to 30 points for the total. Thanks for reading!
Very well done Greg! They look superb and historically accurate or not, the shields pull them together nicely. Something I feel is rather important with the smaller scales.
ReplyDeleteGreat work and they make a very impressive array. I marvel at your skill with the fiddly basing at this scale, I had enough difficulty getting three 10mm figures on a base let alone ten!
ReplyDeleteExcellent looking models dude. You've really taken to those 10mm Romans and enemies!
ReplyDeleteSplendid teeny tiny enemies of Rome and I'm totally with you on using these generic spearmen across a wide range of periods!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Great looking spearman Greg. Love the blue.
ReplyDeleteOnward for Zoroaster!
ReplyDeleteYou're making a good case for 10mm!
ReplyDeleteLevy Spearman vs Roman Legionnaires, I hope the back of the unit is really well painted as that's what you'll see most of 😉
ReplyDeleteRegards KenR
Great!
ReplyDeleteCorking little figures! I like the contrast of the shield colours against the Roman red.
ReplyDeleteThey look great.
ReplyDeleteWell done Greg!
ReplyDeleteChristopher