Thursday, 31 August 2017

The thunder of hooves : Scythian Horse Archers

Working away during the evenings between ACW stuff I have managed to finish these Scythian Horse archers, these will form form part of my slowly developing Persian army and probably appear as mercenaries. Wouldn't it be nice to have a much larger force of Scythians but these will have to do for now.
They are Essex riders but with some, fairly random horses I picked up at a show flea market. They will most likely play as two troops in our Kings of War games. Don't look too hard at the painting but they look ok at a distance 😀 Their finishing almost coincides with the up and coming British Museum exhibition which is no my list of things to attend  in the next few months.

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  1. Fast and beautiful cavalry, nicely done Matt!

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    1. Thanks Phil...beautiful might be stretching it but hopefully effective at hit and run 😀

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  2. Looking good, I may have to get some horse archers for the Romans.

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    1. Thanks the foundry ones are nice ...but I am not sure the Scythians fought with the romans ?

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    2. Surely you mean more Goths?

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  3. Matt, these are a perfect start to a Persian army.

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    1. Thanks, these can add to the fledgling force....the rest of the Persian army is in the lead/ plastic volcano.....

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    2. I have a small handful of Foundry Skythian/Cimmerian horse archers in my painting queue for my fledgling Assyrian army. Perhaps mine, once fielded, can see double duty somewhere?

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    3. Yes I like the foundry figures, I only have limited knowledge but believe they fought as mercenaries for a range of empires across a fairly lengthy time period. 🙂

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  4. Lovely job - I like the basing and how it contributes to the cohesiveness of the unit as a whole.

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    1. Hitting on 3's I think 😀 Are you going to Border show on Saturday we are planning to come across.

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  6. Nice looking horse archers, useful as parthians if your fudging it a bit ? I didn't know about the sythian exhibition so thanks for that.
    Best Iain

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    1. Thanks Iain with my wild abuse of historical accuracy they will hopefully be finding time on the battle field as a range of mercenary horse archers, although their core role is part of the persian army.

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