Assyrian army

Assyrian army

Tuesday 19 October 2021

A plethora of elephants - Review

 In total, 52 of the things...



I think that's enough on elephants for now. The Garrison herd is now up to size that I am happy to call reasonable!

 (Future thought: the elephants under the SKT label)

14 comments:

  1. Your table must be reinforced with ferro-concrete!

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  2. Your idea of reasonable is truly terrifying! They look fantastic Rob - can you see ever playing a game with all of them on the table?

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    1. Not really terrifying, it's just that owning moulds and copyright for a number of Garrison/SKT elephants, actually owning far more Minifigs elephants just seemed wrong.

      Can see me using 16-20 at a time - trouble with using 52 at the same time, would need me to use a proportionate ammount of cavalry and infantry - result would need a bigger table than my 12 x 4 and would be so slow it would be boring I can remember playing in a multi player game in Bradford in the 70s - table was about 16'? - 10-12 ranks deep figures from edge to edge. Main forces didn't even make contact after everyone got boring and we gave up!

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    2. Ah - that's exactly why Jervis Johnson and I came up with the Black Powder game - and then Hail Caesar the ancients version of it - we play games two or three a side (and have played up to six!) on a fairly rammed 6 foot by 14 foot table - takes an evening or a short day breaking for lunch - never slow or boring :)

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    3. The game I remember was played using WRG 3rd Edition.

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  3. According to Google…the collective term for elephants is a memory…
    They certainly are memorable Rob…

    All the best. Aly

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  4. That's quite a spectacle, and no small amount of metal. Do you purchase new ingots, or sacrifice unwanted minis to the melting pot?

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    1. I buy metal in 25kg lots. Spin casting moulds do several different figures so I tend to keep the excess produced and reuse any excess metal from the moulds. When the 25kg runs out, I start sacrificing my unwanted surplus or unused figures - I can always cast more later if I find they weren't surplus after all!

      52 elephants would represent about 13 - 15kg of metal, though 'only' half of this lot were cast by me!

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