Out today are more miniatures for use in the armies of the Akkadians, Amorite Kingdoms and Sumerians, amongst others. These latest Early and Middle Bronze Age releases are just a few of many coming from our partnership with Cutting Edge Miniatures. View in Store Nomadic Levies or auxiliaries drafted into the City-State armies of the…
No one is exactly sure whether the Amorites were native to the whole region west of Mesopotamia, or more specifically the part that corresponds to northern Syria west of the Euphrates. We do know that from the end of the 3rd millennium BC – about 2100BC onwards – they descended upon the lands of the…
More troops for your growing Bronze Age forces, straight from Cutting Edge Miniatures – Levy Javelinmen and Levy Archers. View in Store These un-shielded Javelinmen can be used in both regular City-State, (as levy skirmishers), or early Nomad armies of the Early and Middle Bronze Age. This group are bare-chested and dressed in various styles…
The latest releases for our Early/Middle Bronze Age range from Cutting Edge Miniatures are three sets of City-State Spearmen. View in Store These are the earliest known City-State Spearmen, from c.2500 BCE, with long thrusting spear, as shown on the Standard of Ur. They do not carry shields, though the long cape may have given some…
We at Warlord have put our heads together and sorted out the colours that we use to paint models, saving you the time looking through paint codes and giving you more time actually putting paint to model. Fantastic chaps the we are we’ve also knocked a little bit off the total price. View in Store…
Add some hitting power to your Early Bronze Age Sumerian army with a Battlewagon and a Platform Cart, each drawn by 4 Equids (Donkeys or Donkey-Onager hybrids). These models can be used to build the Early Bronze Age armies of the City-States of Mesopotamia and Syria in the 3rd Millennium BCE. They include cities such as Uruk,…
Out today are two new sets for Akkadian Early Bronze Age armies – Later Household Axemen and Archers. Check out our growing Early and Middle Bronze Age range. View in Store Later Household Axemen can be used as Royal Guard or Retinue Axemen of the later Akkadian Empire, and the Neo-Sumerian and Successor City-States. View in Store…
This week we have more new miniatures from the Cutting Edge Bronze Age range. Following on from the miniatures we released for the Sumerian and Akkadian armies last week, the next release for our new Early/Middle Bronze Age range widens your range of troop options with slingers, axemen and archers. These slingers can be fielded…
We’re delighted to be able to release the first of many Bronze Age packs from our partnership with Cutting Edge Miniatures. The first two armies we are releasing back into the wild are the Sumerians and the Akkadians. For more information about wargaming this period, see Rick Priestley’s introduction to Sumerians and Akkadians. These figures…
Sumerians and the World’s First Empires There is good reason to believe that organised warfare has its origins in the land of Mesopotamia amongst the city-states of Sumer that flourished in the latter half of the 3rd Millennium BC. The famous Stele of Vultures depicts Eannatum of Lagash crushing the armies of the rival city…
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