Blood and Gold (Americas)

Huaxtec15mm · Post by **Huaxtec15mm** » Sun May 03, 2009 6:54 pm

What armies are you most looking forward to in this booka and why?

For me? Definitely the Huaxtecs. If you are not familiar with the Huaxteca, here is a wikipedia link:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huastec_civilization

In short, they were a group of Maya related tribes that left the Yucatan Peninsula long before the Aztecs arrived in the Mexico Basin.

They practised phallic worship, body tattooing, peirced both ears and noses, and shaved the front, top and sides of their heads! To add to this, they practised the art of head elongation and they often filed their teeth into razor like blades and painted them black. This naturally, gave them an alltogether alien like appearance!

Once the expanding Aztec Empire came into contact with them they were constantly at a state of war with them. Newly crowned Aztec Emperors often made a point of launching an attack against the Huaxteca as soon as they were coronated.

The Aztecs fought the Huaxteca tribes for 30 years before they gained control over the southern part of their lands. The Huaxteca then paid tribute to the Aztecs but were a constant threat of rebellion and general thorn in the side of the Aztecs.

Although it took less than 3 years for the Conquistadores to dismantle the mighty Aztec Empire, the Huaxtecs managed to hold out for another 6 years after the fall of the Aztecs. They even managed to defeat Cortes and Gonzalo de Sandoval in 1525-26.

Although the Aztecs considered the Huaxteca to be barbarians and uncivilized, they respected them enough as warriors that they imitated their style of Warrior Suit know as "Eagle Scratch" or "Eagle Claw" suits. If you are familiar with the Aztecs, these are the suits with horizontal stripes (usually red, green or blue suits w/ black stripes in pairs) accompanied by a tall pointy hat. All Aztec Warriors who had captured two live enemy prisoners would have been awarded this suit.

Aside from this style of war suit and some Nobles who wore padded cotton armor, the Huaxteca were known for fighting naked!

Huaxtec warriors would have been similarily armed to Aztecs with Obsidian bladed swords, spears, bows, and even wooden maces (war clubs).

I have made entire army ranges of these available for pre-order at the links below:

in plastic:
http://wargamesfactory.lefora.com/2009/ ... ate/page1/
Iincludes numerous pictures)

in metal:
http://eurekamin.com.au/index.php?cPath ... =3a&page=2

Please help either one of these fantastic lines get produced before the Americas book comes out by ordering a few!

Cheers.

Huaxtec15mm · Post by **Huaxtec15mm** » Sun May 03, 2009 6:57 pm

where the poll lists "zapotecs" twice it should read "zapotecs/ mixtecs".

grahambriggs · Post by **grahambriggs** » Sun May 03, 2009 11:20 pm

What, no Olmec option in the vote?

G

Huaxtec15mm · Post by **Huaxtec15mm** » Mon May 04, 2009 12:16 am

grahambriggs wrote:What, no Olmec option in the vote?

G

That was the maximum vote choices!

I had about 10 more armies to go including Olmecs and Chichimecs.

stenic · Post by **stenic** » Mon May 04, 2009 8:41 am

Tupi, since I have the shiney pretty things waiting on the shelf

Not looking forward to the rebasing though

Steve P

Huaxtec15mm · Post by **Huaxtec15mm** » Mon May 04, 2009 7:46 pm

stenic wrote:Tupi, since I have the shiney pretty things waiting on the shelf

Not looking forward to the rebasing though

Steve P

Lol, I had Tupi as a choice but couldnt fit it in! Another good one. Your vote is duly noted!

Huaxtec15mm · Post by **Huaxtec15mm** » Wed May 06, 2009 6:04 am

The 15mm Huaxtecs at Eureka are now over 500+ figures ordered. 100 figures left to go into production! Looks like these will be done before the Wargames Factory ones will!

http://eurekamin.com.au/index.php?cPath ... =3a&page=2

DaiSho · Post by **DaiSho** » Wed May 06, 2009 6:26 am

Huaxtec15mm wrote:In short, they were a group of Maya related tribes that left the Yucatan Peninsula long before the Aztecs arrived in the Mexico Basin.

They practised phallic worship, body tattooing, peirced both ears and noses, and shaved the front, top and sides of their heads! To add to this, they practised the art of head elongation and they often filed their teeth into razor like blades and painted them black. This naturally, gave them an alltogether alien like appearance!

Yes, well, I can see the attraction

Huaxtec15mm · Post by **Huaxtec15mm** » Wed May 06, 2009 7:07 am

DaiSho wrote:
Huaxtec15mm wrote:In short, they were a group of Maya related tribes that left the Yucatan Peninsula long before the Aztecs arrived in the Mexico Basin.

They practised phallic worship, body tattooing, peirced both ears and noses, and shaved the front, top and sides of their heads! To add to this, they practised the art of head elongation and they often filed their teeth into razor like blades and painted them black. This naturally, gave them an alltogether alien like appearance!

Yes, well, I can see the attraction

Lol,

DaiSho · Post by **DaiSho** » Wed May 06, 2009 7:12 am

Huaxtec15mm wrote:Lol, , have a look!!!
http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp7/ ... 68/1-3.jpg
http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp7/ ... 68/2-2.jpg
http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp7/ ... 68/3-1.jpg
http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp7/ ... huax-1.jpg
http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp7/ ... uaxtec.jpg
http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp7/ ... tec2-1.jpg
http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp7/ ... tec3-1.jpg
http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp7/ ... /hx5-1.jpg
http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp7/ ... ec1_rs.jpg
http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp7/ ... ec3_rs.jpg
http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp7/ ... ec4_rs.jpg

Yes, fine looking speciments of... weirdness!

DaiSho · Post by **DaiSho** » Wed May 06, 2009 7:13 am

stenic wrote:Tupi, since I have the shiney pretty things waiting on the shelf

I hope you're not going to be disappointed if they weren't "Elite, LongbowBow, Impact Foot, Skilled Swordsmen"?

It's effectively what they were in another rules system!

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Wed May 06, 2009 8:40 am

DaiSho wrote:
stenic wrote:Tupi, since I have the shiney pretty things waiting on the shelf
I hope you're not going to be disappointed if they weren't "Elite, LongbowBow, Impact Foot, Skilled Swordsmen"?

It's effectively what they were in another rules system!

Not really, in the 'other' rules Tupi are a mix of impact foot swordsmen and longbow swordsmen. In practice they were all much the same and somewhere between the two.

rbodleyscott · Post by **rbodleyscott** » Wed May 06, 2009 9:08 am

DaiSho wrote:
stenic wrote:Tupi, since I have the shiney pretty things waiting on the shelf
I hope you're not going to be disappointed if they weren't "Elite, LongbowBow, Impact Foot, Skilled Swordsmen"?

It's effectively what they were in another rules system!

Steve already knows that they are Average, MF, Bow*, Heavy Weapon.

DaiSho · Post by **DaiSho** » Wed May 06, 2009 9:18 am

rbodleyscott wrote: Steve already knows that they are Average, MF, Bow*, Heavy Weapon.

Yeah, I was just grumbling at the fact that Armoured Hoplites couldn't beat Tupi in DBMM. Not a hope.

Ian

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Wed May 06, 2009 9:21 am

DaiSho wrote:
rbodleyscott wrote: Steve already knows that they are Average, MF, Bow*, Heavy Weapon.
Yeah, I was just grumbling at the fact that Armoured Hoplites couldn't beat Tupi in DBMM. Not a hope.

Ian

Well hoplites can't beat anything in DBMM so where is the problem

In FoG Hoplites will be on even in melee against Tupi but if the Tupi lose they will take a -1 on CT. The archery will probably not do much but might get the odd disruption as the hoplites advance.

DaiSho · Post by **DaiSho** » Wed May 06, 2009 9:25 am

hammy wrote: Well hoplites can't beat anything in DBMM so where is the problem

But the rules aren't broken... there's no problem here, move along, move along

Not that it's a problem. A far superior set of rules came along, and I've never looked back... and that's even with Vikings not having BG's of 10

Ian

Huaxtec15mm · Post by **Huaxtec15mm** » Sun May 10, 2009 2:12 am

DaiSho wrote:
Huaxtec15mm wrote:Lol, , have a look!!!
http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp7/ ... 68/1-3.jpg
http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp7/ ... 68/2-2.jpg
http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp7/ ... 68/3-1.jpg
http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp7/ ... huax-1.jpg
http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp7/ ... uaxtec.jpg
http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp7/ ... tec2-1.jpg
http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp7/ ... tec3-1.jpg
http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp7/ ... /hx5-1.jpg
http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp7/ ... ec1_rs.jpg
http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp7/ ... ec3_rs.jpg
http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp7/ ... ec4_rs.jpg

Yes, fine looking speciments of... weirdness!

WHAT!!!! NO one wants Huaxtecs after these pics!

Huaxtec15mm · Post by **Huaxtec15mm** » Tue May 19, 2009 8:23 pm

Im surprised the Conquistadores are as popular as they are seeing as they never had more than 1000 (spanish) troops in their army!

Huaxtec15mm · Post by **Huaxtec15mm** » Fri May 22, 2009 9:29 am

I know not too many interested in the Huaxtecs (yet!!!), but for those interested in Blood and Gold armies, I was told today by Nic at Eureka Miniatures that our pre-orders for 15mm Huaxtecs are past 600, the magic number! The only problem is only 7 people have pre-ordered and Nic requires at least 10 before they go into production.

So, if you have even the slightest interest in these, even 4 or 8 sample figures (or Aztec allies if you dont want an entire army!) then please consider ordering a few to help get this range produced. If and when(!) it gets produced, it will be the first ever range of Huaxtecs in 15mm

Sorry for the continuous adverts, but we are really close to getting these unique minis produced! Thanks again for any help Lads!

Plenty of concept pictures to wet your appetite here:
http://wargamesfactory.lefora.com/2009/ ... ate/page1/

Orders here:
http://eurekamin.com.au/index.php?cPath ... =3a&page=2

flamingpig0 · Post by **flamingpig0** » Fri May 22, 2009 12:37 pm

Huaxtec15mm wrote: They practised phallic worship, body tattooing, peirced both ears and noses, and shaved the front, top and sides of their heads! To add to this, they practised the art of head elongation and they often filed their teeth into razor like blades and painted them black. This naturally, gave them an alltogether alien like appearance!
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I take it you have never seen the 'Expoited' in concert.

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