What are Oscan Hoplites?

titanu · Post by **titanu** » Sun Jan 08, 2012 7:55 pm

Simple question what are Oscan Hoplites?
And what FoG army(s) would they be in?

Strategos69 · Post by **Strategos69** » Sun Jan 08, 2012 8:17 pm

Those are the Italian tribes based around Campania that adopted Greek equipment as a process of mixture with the Greek colonist in Southern Italy. If you are looking for miniatures, you have some excellent ones in Xyston's 15mm. Basically what made them distinct was the use of leathers (traditional in Italian warfare), the use of the round Greek shiled, aspis, and some mixture of Italian and Greek helmets and body protections.

They can be in the Siracusans, Romans, Carthaginians, Pyhrrus and in some of the Lost Scrolls lists, I guess, but I do not know for them.

philqw78 · Post by **philqw78** » Sun Jan 08, 2012 8:38 pm

Their most famous general was Oscar the Grouch

Polkovnik · Post by **Polkovnik** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 12:02 am

Strategos69 wrote:If you are looking for miniatures, you have some excellent ones in Xyston's 15mm.

I'm guessing that it was seeing the miniatures that drove the question.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Xyston-15mm-2 ... 4ab2b29817

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Xyston-15mm-2 ... 4ab2b2a549

titanu · Post by **titanu** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 8:53 pm

Polkovnik wrote:
Strategos69 wrote:If you are looking for miniatures, you have some excellent ones in Xyston's 15mm.
I'm guessing that it was seeing the miniatures that drove the question.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Xyston-15mm-2 ... 4ab2b29817

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Xyston-15mm-2 ... 4ab2b2a549

You have it exactly!!

GrahamR · Post by **GrahamR** » Sat Jan 14, 2012 3:42 pm

I think mine compare pretty favourably with the ones on eBay if you ever want to borrow them Bob, though they are all MF (8 bases Xyston, 8 bases Old Glory)