Slitherine

If you had to take one army from the Swifter than Eagles book to an open tournament and it had to have mandtatory chariots, which one would you choose and why?

By open tournament I mean armies from all the books are allowed.

My sculptor is about done with the Chinantecs and I'm realizing I don't have any chariot armies in my lines ....

Anybody will tell you its the Assyrians

Phil

I a certain light you could easily be mistaken for Sargon...

philqw78 wrote:Anybody will tell you its the Assyrians

I was afraid of that! There are several good ranges of assyrians in 15mm.

Libyan Egyptian and Mitanni may have mileage in open comps.

nikgaukroger wrote:Libyan Egyptian and Mitanni may have mileage in open comps.

both very interesting suggestions!

If your sculptor is looking for new armies then Koreans would be a good choice. There seems to be a shortage of Korean figures available.

ottomanmjm wrote:If your sculptor is looking for new armies then Koreans would be a good choice. There seems to be a shortage of Korean figures available.

But koreans are not a chariot army.

Seriously, the sculptor who made the kofun/Nara Japanese is going to make the Koreans sometime in 2010, after he's done with late 2nd century AD Romans, which he's working on now.

it's a chariot army in the empire of the dragon

nikgaukroger wrote:Libyan Egyptian and Mitanni may have mileage in open comps.

Some nice "Invincible Meshwesh" figures would be sweet.

(BTW are those more like the bunny-eared early libyans or Sea Peoples?)

khurasan_miniatures wrote:

nikgaukroger wrote:Libyan Egyptian and Mitanni may have mileage in open comps.

both very interesting suggestions!

And the libyans can be used as an Assyrian ally so you are also marketing to all of the owners of the most popular chariot army.

BTW meshwesh figs are very bad.

Hittites and hebrew also look to be decent FoG chariot armies as alternatives.

Go Hittites. Now, accurate (I was going to say good but Prof Nigel Tallis would say that aren't any) Hittite charioters would really interest me.

I think the Kushite Egyptians could do well in open competition, especially with a Libyan Egyptian ally.

Spike

Of the Kush

The most attractive period army to me is Minoan / Mycenaean.

The list makes me groan though.

So to sum up we are all agreed then. Libyans are the way forward.

anthony

timmy1 wrote:Now, accurate (I was going to say good but Prof Nigel Tallis would say that aren't any) Hittite charioters would really interest me.

Sorry, I don't understand what you mean in your reference to Nigel Tallis. Are you saying that he says that there's no such thing as a good Hittite charioteer in terms of historical troop quality? Or a good figurine for one at present? Or that we don't know enough about their appearance to make good models? Confused, can you clear up?

My favourite army is actually the Hittite. Some companies make them however. I am also having my doubts about Libyans mostly because the AANE book seems to suggest that they would have looked like later New Kingdom or like Libyan tribesmen by and large, and those are made already by multiple manufacturers. It's the Kushites that seem to take on a unique appearance -- the images of different-looking Egyptians seem to be attributed to the Kushites -- and I'm not sure how good an army that is.

Hittites are BAD people

khurasan_miniatures wrote:

timmy1 wrote:Now, accurate (I was going to say good but Prof Nigel Tallis would say that aren't any) Hittite charioters would really interest me.

Sorry, I don't understand what you mean in your reference to Nigel Tallis. Are you saying that he says that there's no such thing as a good Hittite charioteer in terms of historical troop quality? Or a good figurine for one at present? Or that we don't know enough about their appearance to make good models? Confused, can you clear up?

My favourite army is actually the Hittite. Some companies make them however. I am also having my doubts about Libyans mostly because the AANE book seems to suggest that they would have looked like later New Kingdom or like Libyan tribesmen by and large, and those are made already by multiple manufacturers. It's the Kushites that seem to take on a unique appearance -- the images of different-looking Egyptians seem to be attributed to the Kushites -- and I'm not sure how good an army that is.

Essex, Magister Militum and Old Glory all make Libyans. Not really filling a neglected niche with Libyans. No one does Geometric Greeks though, or a proper line of archaic hoplites in full bronze panoply.

Doh!

I just did Hittites, Jon

Gotta support Phil here and say Assyrian.

Spartacus wrote:Gotta support Phil here and say

Who cares what you say someone is on my side for a change