Do we have a stifle button here?

Afraid not, figures supplied open handed without lance.

I started early replacing all my bendy lead spears and such with wire. Can cause the odd battlefield injury, but better than re-painting.

Outpost also do a line of Late Romans and Khurusan Miniatures have started doing one, sculpted by ...

Pass'o the North have some good catafracts, though I don't recall seeing any cataphract command type figures unless you want to convert your own.
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Yes, my understanding is that the Assyrians arrived and threw out the Kushites.
Some how after that the Egyptians, whom proved loyal to the Assyrians, established their own dynasty as the Assyrian Empire began crumbling under pressure from a long list of enemies.
Not least among them the ...

No, but if Essex want to give me a kick back I'll gladly accept.

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Not being any wiser than you I'm unable to point you in the right direction, but have a nice example of an essex four horse chariot for you.
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h220/ ... 0009-1.jpg

It does adds a bit of colour though, if you want to go to the trouble.

But will it be translated into Barkerese?

You could try experimenting with flattened florists wire for the blade and green stuff for the hilt.

Not an expert but have painted a Nik Byzantine army and toyed with doing Komnenan under another rules set.

Hmm, thats a bit of a dodgy qualification.

I thought that after Manzikert the Byzantine army would have involved quite a high proportion of mercenaries. After 1066 an influx of Saxons into ...

Sumerians!
Bugger all armour, bugger all clothes the only hassle may be painting equids.

I'm just finishing off my second batch of Late Roman Cataphracts as I type this and would agree with the above post. Who's going to despute you, anyone who was there is dead?

I've gone the wargamer traditional red for the Legion and various shades of off white for the Auxilia.
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Two examples of Saitic Egyptian spearmen to give you an idea how little they have changed from NKE times.
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h220/ ... 0010-1.jpg

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