From BillA - Warriors with Spears (60 pts)

 I'm hitting the "boring" troop stage of my Mayan project - the ordinary warriors there to fill the ranks, mostly without fun accoutrements like feathers and jewelry. The nice thing is that units in Tribal are five figures, so I can batch paint a couple at a time without hitting the burnout sensation that trying to work through 20-30-figure regiments can trigger. 

This week, I've done two units of Warriors with Long Weapons - Tribal splits Warriors (melee combat units) into "Long" and "Short" weapons, with long weapons being spears and polearms, while short weapons are swords, clubs, axes, etc. The different weapon types gain bonuses when used with different tactics during play - long weapons being better at hindering your opponent and making it harder for them to win a round of combat, while short weapons favor straight forward bashing. 

These figures are once again from Lucid Eye, and are listed as "Jaguar Tribes" on their website. I've differentiated the units with red and green detailing, because otherwise they're almost the same sculpts across both units.

I like the variety, from nearly nude to quilted shirts and the brightly colored "long johns" style outfits, which are laced up the back. They do have shields, but those are going to wait for warmer weather to prime and paint. 

And a group shot of both units together, in case I'm ever using these for a game with ten-figure units:

 Yes, the guys wearing the quilted shirts are bare-assed. I guess they're too brave to worry about turning around and getting shot in the butt! 

And finally, I've finished a pair of Gringo 40s Maya casualty figures, painted to use as Panicked markers in Tribal. As you can see, trying to flock under and between their legs was a bit of a fool's errand; next time I'll flock the bases first and then glue the figure down on top of it. 

So that's 10 28mm figures at 5 points apiece, plus two prone casualty figures... call that 55 points all together? And no new squirrel points. 

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Sylvain: What a great project. I was always fascinated by precolonial warfare in central and south America because it seems so "exotic". And you bring it all up on the table top with very well painted and based miniatures. Excellent travail!