Developing the Medievals

 

With only two infantry figures in the Medieval Era range I've had to look at other ranges to fill the gap. That means either the 25mm Medieval range and the Normans and Saxons ranges/

So these are my choices... archers from the Normans (the Saxon figure didn't look right), crossbows from the Medieval range. And the result... they pretty much fit though the '20mm' figures are a bit on the slim side. It just shows that, generally speaking, the Garrison 20mm range is really a 25mm range!

Meanwhile, foes... cavalry no problems. The two at the front make good general Muslims from several periods/countries. Standard Sarmatian cavalry with Khmer shields. The two behind are mostly head swap conversions. What I haven't done yet (way behind schedule) is sort out infantry conversions.

Personal conclusion? Looks promising.

Gallic Army Review 2026

Short one to show the combined forces. This is roughly the size I intend to make the Garrison Gallic army...

 

I have to admit it does look quite impressive. 491 infantry, 78 cavalry and 17 chariots.

Garrison Gallic army Review June 2026

 

Much bigger than my Minifigs host - 150 Gallic warband infantry and 80 Galatians against 135 equivalent Minifigs for a start!

9 chariots rather than 8. The centre is quite impressive. I plan on roughly doubling the numbers eventually...

48 Garrison cavalry compared to 20 Minifigs - and no Garrison Ancient Brit light cavalry added yet though there is a command element to let me use the Dacians!

Second of the two cavalry blocks.

Side view of army. Again, light infantry I have far more Garrison - 72 compared to 54.

So where does this leave me regarding Gauls? Probably on pause for a while - looking at those Garrison Medieval Era figures at the moment, plus want to look at generic Medieval Muslims, Goths, Elamites, Kushites and of course the Spanish infantry to go with the Carthaginians... bearing in mind that this Gallic army was originally looked on as just a bunch of Carthaginian mercenaries

Minifigs Gallic army Review June 2026

 

With both my Garrison and Minifigs armies being sorted, I thought I'd do a Review for each then another one for the combined armies. I'll spread them out over a few days though...

Still got 8 chariots but now 3 45 strong warbands...

Close up of one of the warbands.

Side view of the army. The army has 20 cavalry and 54 light infantry. This army is pretty much surplus to requirements these days so is on my 'downscaling' list - the Garrison army is bigger and growing, this army was always an afterthought and won't be enlarged by me.

Minifigs Indian Army Review June 2026

 

Having added those extra elephants recently - plus a small number of cavalry - it seemed like a good idea to do another Review - the last Indian Army Review was in 2019.

Back then I had 9 painted elephants, today it's 16.

4 horse chariots still the same.

Likewise 2 horse chariots.

The current right flank, cavalry and javelins. The cavalry force is a bit bigger than last time, but not by much.

And left flank cavalry and light archer unit.

Sizewise, the army includes 126 Bw, 80 Sp, 24 Ps,  81 cavalry, 16 elephants and 11 chariots. Barring a sudden urge to paint a load of chariots I don't see this army getting any bigger.

The elephant I mentioned earlier...

 

Crew as they came, elephant basic paint job. Colour out a bit on this - background should be white!

Sorting and tidying

As time goes on my wargames table gradually gets filled up with things that prevent me from doing battles or anything. So time for a bit of a sort...

Adding to that, I'm filling a lot of boxes with figures at the moment and needed to sort some space to act as shelf space.

And somewhere amongst that lot I found another elephant and a few more Indian elephant riders...