Made a little progress on painting up some of the Ancients slope of my lead mountain....a regiment of Egyptian light infantry armed with javelins and shields.
In Warhammer Ancients, troops classed as light infantry can form up and fight as regular line troops or break ranks and engage the enemy as skirmishers. I'm interested to see how that works out on the table top.
As usual the figures are all from Ral Partha's 1990s line.
It was a fun regiment to paint, perhaps in part because the figures don't have a lot of paraphernalia to have to pick out with the brush. Skin, some simple clothing, weapon and shield. That's it. So they go pretty fast.
Some of the individual troopers.
The trooper figures are all the same casting but I don't mind that too much.
"Advance!!" What's next? I have no idea yet. Archers, maybe? Or a chariot regiment? Meh. I'll know when I get there.
I like the blue accents on your unit. It's pretty easy to end up kinda drab or muddy with a lot of the ancients if you aren't careful. The chariot armies are occasionally tempting to me....but I think it'd get big (storage wise) and expensive. Though I think there are some plastic chariots coming through the pipe now (warlord and victrix maybe?)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Dave. I went with the blue because I started out with the idea that they were going to be marines, but I couldn't find an appropriate standard so they are just the blue guys. Glad I did it though, because like you say without a spot of something bright on them they just look like another patch of sand. Storing the chariots isn't too difficult because you really don't need that many for a Warhammer Ancients army and they are not that much taller than the foot figures. They actually tend to have a slightly lower profile than cavalry figs in the same scale. Buying them is expensive for me because I always buy in metal, but if you could get into plastic boxes that probably wouldn't be too bad. They are pretty little things, too. Very satisfying to build and paint and push around on the table top.
DeleteI agree with the use of the blue. It keeps them interesting and broken up. I see what Dave was saying about the potential to get muddy if you aren't careful, but your skin always seems to turn out great, nice choice!
DeleteChariots would be rad.
I've always liked the idea of an Egyptian army, in my day I used WRG rules, never tried Warhammer, I did have an Airfix 20mm Ancient British Army with chariots, lots of light ish infantry and cavalry, it was never going to do too well and that's exactly how i performed with it.
ReplyDeleteHope you do better with these guys.
Ancient Egyptian armies are certainly attractive. They have that very distinctive look to the core troops and a lot of interesting allies like the Nubians, Libyans and Sea Peoples to add a little variety if you want. Warhammer Ancients is pretty much what you'd think. Its Warhammer, just take away the Snotlings, Wizards and huge flaming demons. I have a few rule sets for Ancients, but Warhammer Ancients is the only one I've actually tried. So far I like it.
ReplyDeleteI stopped wargaming for quite a long time, just when GW started concentrating on what became their core strengths so I never got introduced to Warhamer.
DeleteI did get introduced to Lord of the Rings rules, but thought they were very padded with some surprising rules and strange concepts but they do seem very popular and I rejected them after 1 go so probably didn't give them a fair crack of the whip.
Anyway I'm looking forward to seeing more of your Egyptians when they come along.
GW had so many fun and imaginative things coming out for so long...Talisman, Fury of Dracula, Judge Dredd, Chainsaw Warrior, wonderful, kooky Warhammer scenario boxed sets like Bloodbath at Orc's Drift...then suddenly it was all gone. Now I look at their stuff and nothing catches my eye. Old school Warhammer has been a standard for me for a long time.. I've adapted the basic rules to all kinds of other games; a Pulp game I did last year using basic 40k 1st edition rules went over huge with a pack of my friends. They said it was the best and weirdest mini game they'd ever played. If you've never taken a look at the 1st edition 40k rulebook, I recommend it highly. Its light on rules but its a reservoir of ideas and inspiration for fun narrative driven games of all kinds...not that you're needing any help in the inspiration department. I never tried LOTR and probably never will but I've heard some good things about it.
DeleteI'll keep an eye out for it.
DeleteCheers