Persian Review 2023 - the rest

 

So this little lot includes Assyrians, Egyptians, Lydians/Phrygians, Ethiopians, Thracians, etc...

There are also a few figures that were missed on the previous posts - 14 Bactrian cavalry, 12 Sarangian archers and 6 Indian horse archers.

Except for the last two pictures this lot are just random bits of the army. This is the right flank, basically a light infantry screen including Milyae and Syrians.

Left flank, including Arab archers at the front.

The Indians missed out on having their own army when I got a load of Minifigs. So this archer unit is the only Garrison Indians I've painted.

Assyrians in the foreground, various Asian Greeks behind them. The smaller 'blue' Assyrians are ones I did, 'red' figures are ex-Harry.

This is more of a test unit. I usually paint Nubians/Kushites dark brown but I experimented with black for these. The standard bearer is a Rose figure.

Carthaginian spears pretending to be Phoenicians backed by some Asiatic Greeks. All these figures are ex-Harry, though the original Carthaginians were supplied by me. A lot of figures I sent Harry came back painted when I bought his collection!

The front row are from my original 70s army and are in need of some attention. Behind them are my Hollywood style Carians in black armour.

Phrygian/Lydians. Need more of these for the Lydian army - and the figures for that are just sitting there!

Garrison Phrygian axemen. A 40 strong unit acquired from Harry.

Egyptians. The ones with the falcon shield blazon are more survivors from my 70s army.

Ex-Harry Persian javelins backed by ex-Harry Persian archers. In front of them some converted Milyae.

Various Nubian/Kushite/Ethiopians backed by Thracians and with Arab archers in front.

Meanwhile, thought it might be an idea to round off the army with some Greeks. On the right flank a load of late Greek conversions, to their left a couple of units of Thebans. I admit I don't like that Theban figure - it overlaps the bases too much!

Could have used more but decided to leave the rest of the late Greeks in their box.

So that's it. Not sure, but I might do a separate post grouping the main pictures together as one Review rather than leaving them separate.

This lot totals about 570 infantry plus 20 cavalry - plus, of course, about 250 Greek hoplites!

Ignoring the Greeks, army itself has 2,058 infantry, 521 cavaly, 36 camels, 17 chariots, 3 war wagons and an elephant (not counting the 8 Sassanid elephants!)