Greek Hoplite General Element (and others)

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A General element for Greek Hoplite army #2 (most of these are from Black Tree Design though the hornblower is from Crusader Miniatures)…


Why do a General Element for #2 whan I haven’t even completed #1…? Well… A while back I painted up minis for an element of BTD hoplites – just so see how many I could fit on a stand. Anyone who was paying far too much attention, however, will have noticed that in the preview of the shields post I’d done just before that, there was eight hoplites… but I only fit seven on the element… So I’ve had a single hoplite kicking around on the workbench – finished – and still on the temporary painting base…


I thought I’d best finish off a few more to complete an element… Of course, I didn’t actually finish off six more though – I used two that had been previously painted and based individually and rebased them onto the element with four newly painted figures!? (the guy pointing and the hornblower from Crusader Minis).

If you're wondering what I mean by "Greek Hoplite army #1" and "Greek Hoplite army #2", I've purchased enough 28mm minis for two Greek Hoplite Armies - with 8 figures per element of Spear. One army is made up of figures from Crusader Miniatures, the other is made up of figures from Black Tree Design. My plan is to get cracking on the Crusader Miniatures army and get them finished up in the next couple weeks. AFter that I'll concentrate on the second... or maybe the Amazons... We shall see...


A couple more Greeks and an Amazon– all from Wargames Foundry

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Looks like I might get a game in later this week… hopefully have a game report of that!

Before that though I should hopefully finish up a few more individually based Greeks and get them posted up – and hoefully get some skirmish gaming in with those some time soonish… (those reports you’ll find over at Savage Timmy’s Playhouse)

Atalanta, Amazons, an Egyptian, and Dogs

A few more odd and sundry items rolling off the workbench this weekend.

I've tired of the standard grass green background for the photos, so I thought I'd let this lot frolic on the beach in saucy sea-side photo shoot...

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Atalanta and an Amazon (both from Wargames Foundry)


An element of light Amazon infantry (also from Wargames Foundry). These would be Auxilia in DBA and Spear in HOTT.


An odd Egyptian Spearman that was sitting on the workbench half-painted that I decided to finish up last night… (You guessed it; also from Wargames Foundry)


A pack of Mastiffs (NOT from Wargames Foudry! They’re from Warlord Games.

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Hopefully a game report of some DBA action….

So much stuff cluttering the workbench. It’s probably time to purge some of the stuff off of there that I’m not going to get to immediately – and just leave out enough stuff that I can finish in a day or two… what will that be…? More Amazons of actual historical Greek Hoplites.

Artemis, Amazon Archers and the last of the Satyrs

I was up way to late last night… (or early this morning, however you want to look at it…)

Please ignore big blobs of still-drying carpenters glue... i was... a bit impatient to get these up...

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Artemis, Goddess of the Hunt (from Wargames Foundry)


An Amazon Archers element for DBA/HOTT (also from Wargames Foundry).


Satyr Archer elements for DBA/HOTT (from Crocodile Games - Wargods of Olympus).

I have no desire to have an “Satyr Army” at any point (that would be Silly!). These chaps will be a small allied contingent in some Greek Myth or Narnian army… or maybe a foot element for the Centaur army – to deal with anything that might hide in bad-going…?


More Satyr Archers (again… Wargames Foundry)



Here’s all the (individually-based) Satyrs I have (Front Row - from left to right; Foundry, Crocodile Games, Black Tree Design, Foundry, Crocodile Games, Back Row; All Foundry...)

Dang, I’d meant to keep one aside and add a scarf to one with a little green stuff for a “Mr. Tumnus” to put on an element with Lucy (for the planned Narmian HOTT army…). Guess I’ll just have to get some MORE Satyrs at some point. The ones from Eureka Miniatureslook nice…

I should get some with spears and such for a Warband or two as well at some point…


Some other random Ancient Greek dude (from the Foundry)

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More Greek Goodness.

A new draft of DBA 3.0 was posted yesterday… I didn’t even get to trying the previous draft!? Hopefully I’ll get a chance to kick around the latest. I can’t get my head around how the side-support will work… Is that going to rock or suck for spear on spear conflicts (like hoplite warfare!)

More Satyrs

A few more I finished up last night. I should have all the Satyrs (about a dozen more) finished up tonight – along with a few more Amazons as well..

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The chap in the middle is from Crocodile Games (Wargods of Olympus) and the other two are from Wargames Foundry.


Not a Satyr… but he looks like he could be a Dionysian – running wild and free in the woods WITH the satyrs!? (also from Wargames Foundry).

I didn't want to title post "More Satyrs and a Nekkid Greek Dude" lest it attract new viewers (and spam) that weren't really looking for a wargaming blog...


He’s carrying one of the Argonauts shields. I picked up the Ancient Greek Argonauts And Mythical Heroes Collection. I don’t think this chap was meant to be one of the Argonaut, but he ended up with one of their shields… ?!

I think the shields are a bit silly. I’m guessing the ram on there is because they’re the Argonauts who went to fetch the Golden Fleece…. One would think that most gamers would use the figures (if they were being used as Argonauts at all) would use them to play out the adventures of the Argonauts on their quest to fetch the golden fleece… in which case, did they make these sheids up prior to going? “Hey we’re going to fetch the golden fleece for my uncle Pelias the usurper who murdered my family and stole my fathers throne and expects me to die on this voyage… So, what do you say we make up some commemorative shields in advance to let everyone know that’s what we’re doing…?!”

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The rest of the Satyrs… Amazons… other Greeks of Myth and Legend.

Satyr and Amazon Archers

Just a couple more…

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The Satyr is from Crocodile Games (Wargods of Olympus) and the Amazon is from Wargames Foundry.

I’ve been mostly prepping and priming figures the last couple nights (paint-on priming is easy to do while watching a Game of Thrones). I’m kind of running out of stuff to prep and prime… Oh, I guess I have other stuff I could prime, but it would require considerable assembly beforehand… and I have no desire to actually PAINT any of it at any point in the neat future… so…

The two above I did as sort of “test figures”. I have more of each that I’ll be painting up for DBA/HOTT elements – watch for those soon-ish!

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MORE Satyr and Amazon Archers!? Whatever it is it’ll be ancient and/or mythical in nature…

A Few More Greeks

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A Few more Wargames Foundry Ancient Greeks.

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More of the same; could be Heroes and Hoplites or Centaurs and Satyrs or Amazons and… more Amazons…?!

Centaurs and Stuff…

A few more Greek Myth figures from Wargames Foundry.

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An element of Centaur “Riders” for Hordes of the Things (or “Light Horse” in DBA – I’ve been thinking of a semi-historical Heroic Greek campaign – using regular DBA army lists – but allowing proxies for certain elements or even entire armies – these for example could be the LH element in a number of armies… perhaps Thessaly or once I have an entire army of them they could be a proxy for Skythians!?)



A solitary Centaur for skirmishy-tabletop-pole-playing adventures.


A couple other heroic Greek types…

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Should have a few more tomorrow - I have a couple more individual greek hero-types darn near completion… After cranking out these centaurs and the one the other day I’ve gotten pretty excited about the idea of finishing up the army of Centaurs…

I might also finish up some satyrs – to give the centaurs some allies that fight on foot (to deal with any bad-going…).

Distractions… A couple months back, when I first noticed the Game of Thrones Season One was listed as available for pre-order on Amazon, I checked with the local library to se if they were going to get it. Sure enough it was listed in the catalogue and so I requested it. A month back I checked again and it’d been relisted in the local libraries catalogue as the five separate discs. I was already down for disc one, so I added requests for discs two – five – figuring they probably had a long queue and so I’d get disc one rather early and then have to wait months for the rest… and may not get them in the order they were meant to be viewed!? As it turns out I must have got my requests in early enough because I was checking my account at the library last night to see what needed to go back today (Monday is “library day”…) and noticed that ALL FIVE were on the hold shelf for me!? As there is likely a rather long queue of requests I won’t be able to keep them longer than a week and it would probably be months before I’d get them again… so I’ll have a lot of watching to do this week! (it should probably be noted that I haven’t read the books or seen any of the TV series – I’ve just had to listen to people RAVE about them for the last couple years… so I thought I’d better check it out and see what all the fuss is about…)