As time has gone on I've moderated that view. The figures themselves have been rebased and used since Charles Grant owned them anyway, plus some of them need to be refurbished a bit.
Currently I'm working on peltasts, and the collection included 110 Garrison G11. It seemed reasonable to rebase 24 of these as peltasts to give me a second unit. I'll probably rebase another peltast unit, not sure about some nice looking 10 man units as psiloi?
After that, I'm looking at the cavalry.
I've already got quite a few of these in my armies but it's a figure I really like - it would be nice to see this unit rebased and in action.
Another candidate is this mob. Some of the spears need a bit of attention, but the shields are superb. They'll be rebased as mediums/heavies rather than their current light bases.
One large group of figures are the Garrison Persian cavalry. I haven't started rebasing the 'S' Range Persians yet so might wait until then before I consider my options with the Grant figures.
I do like these.
ReplyDeleteI think you could easily get away with some of the peltasts as psiloi. Probably some peltasts and cavalry could also fit in as levies/mercenaries/allies from Asia Minor, Thrace, Bithynia etc from non-trouser wearing areas, the cavalry look good up to Republican Roman days.
I'm using this figure for both. In fact, most are based as psiloi, even if I do finish up with with 3 24 figure peltast units!Cavalry are basically later Greek, I ignore that and have them spread through my various city armies. Strangely, the heavy cavalry figure is my favourite Garrison Greek figure but also the one I have fewest of.
DeleteVery, very nice!
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