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. Phil31 August 2017 at 08:29

    Fast and beautiful cavalry, nicely done Matt!

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    1. Matt Crump31 August 2017 at 18:47

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

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  2. Phil Robinson31 August 2017 at 10:44

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

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    1. Matt Crump31 August 2017 at 18:48

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

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    2. David1 September 2017 at 10:56

      Surely you mean more Goths?

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  3. Jonathan Freitag31 August 2017 at 14:26

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

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    1. Matt Crump31 August 2017 at 18:54

      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. Jonathan Freitag1 September 2017 at 19:10

      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. Matt Crump1 September 2017 at 19:30

      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. Michael Awdry31 August 2017 at 15:21

    Splendid work Sir.

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  5. Michal DwarfCrypt31 August 2017 at 18:11

    Great work again!

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  6. Matt Crump31 August 2017 at 18:54

    Thanks Bruce 😀

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  7. Steve Williams31 August 2017 at 19:55

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

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  8. MartinC31 August 2017 at 21:54

    Jolly deadly

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    1. Matt Crump31 August 2017 at 22:28

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

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  9. caveadsum147131 August 2017 at 22:25

    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. Matt Crump31 August 2017 at 22:31

      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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  10. David1 September 2017 at 10:55

    Fine unit there Matt!

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