The Battle of Agincourt – 25 October 1415 near Azincourt, in northern France. Henry V led his 7000 already exhausted troops into battle against 20,000 French, and participated in the bloody hand-to-hand fighting that would see him and the fabled English Longbow men earn their place in our history books. Build your Hail Caesar…
The fertile lands of Mesopotamia, the coastal Levant, and Egypt were surrounded and partly separated by arid semi-desert or dry steppe regions. These included the Syrian Desert and the northern portion of the Arabian Peninsula. Over thousands of years these marginal lands were always the first to be affected by cyclical periods of wet or…
The New Egyptian Kingdom began with the ejection from Egypt of the Hyksos or Amorite conquerors of the 2nd Intermediate period and was establised by Ahmose I in c.1570 BCE. However the greatest warrior Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty was, without a doubt, Thutmoses III, who expanded the Egyptian New Kingdom into Canaan, Syria and…
This range can be used for the Early Hebrew armies during the invasion of Canaan, firstly under Moses and then Joshua and Gideon against the Canaanite city-states and the Nomadic tribes before the establishment of the Israelite state under Saul. The Book of Joshua recounts how the Hebrews fought two famous battles against the Canaanites…
This range covers Elamite armies of the Late Bronze Age, known as the Middle Elamite Period, (c.1500 – c.1000 BCE). The Elamites fought wars with the Kassite Babylonians in this period and in c.1320 they temporarily occupied Elam. In the 13th and 12th centuries BCE a number of wars with Kassite Babylonia left Elam victorious…
Canaan and Syria in the Late Bronze Age consisted of numerous small city-states such as Megiddo, Kadesh and Ugarit, who were vassals or allies of the surrounding greater powers such as Mitanni, Middle Kingdom Assyria, New Kingdom Egypt or the Hittite Empire.The cities also either fought against each other for dominance in the region or…
A New Year often brings the need for us all to try something new, and what better than to start a new system! So why not start your year off with a new game easily done with these Starter Deals – Just grab a rule book or army set from the list below and get a single free, yes FREE,…
Hyksos is a term used to describe the people who overran Egypt and established a dynasty at the end of the Middle Bronze Age. They came from the east to invade Egypt where Aamu or Amorite tribes had been living for centuries. It is postulated that the Hyksos, (meaning “rulers of foreign lands”), were generally…
Available now in the webstore, we have a selection of Wargames Factory plastic sprues. As we explained a few weeks ago in this update, the Design Studio is busy working on the brilliant Wargames Factory plastics, ready to release newly kitted-out and repackaged boxed sets. However we know lots of you are keen to get…
This army covers the Middle Assyrian period of the Late Bronze Age only. It should not be confused with the Early Neo-Assyrian Army which is often twinned with Middle Assyrian in many wargames lists. The Middle period Assyrian army of the Late Bronze Age is thought to have been the same in dress and character to…
RichC
Graham Davey
Sarah
Rich Dando