Ever since we brought you our splendid Sarmatian Cataphracts we’ve been planning more Sarmatian cavalry to add to your Dacian armies. The waiting is now over as we can now release two new sets of horsemen – Sarmatian Light Cavalry and Sarmatian Horse Archers. THe first of these two new releases are the Light Cavalry….
This week we return to the Sparta for commanders. This pack contains 3 Spartan officers to lead your hoplite regiments. armed with spear and shield, as are the rest of your unit no doubt, they can also double as better equipped hoplites if you so desire… Of course, you’ll need something for your command packs…
Forming a key part of the defence of the aid station at Rorke’s Drift, the mealie bag redoubt is now available to buy. Originally part of our Rorke’s Drift! battle set, we are now making this remastered resin redoubt available separately. It is supplied as two halves, allowing you to either place them together as…
Our eagerly awaited New Model Army boxed set is now here! Containing 29 metal miniatures this set represents Parliament’s all-conquering army – the forerunner of the famous British redcoat that would dominate the world for many years to come… The new metal boxd set contains 16 musketeers, 8 pikemen and four command models (officer, ensign,…
Over 1,000 M10 tank destroyers were converted by the British by adding the deadly Ordnance QF 17 pounder anti-tank gun in place of the standard 3″ (76.2 mm) Gun M7. The British and Canadian forces now had another weapon to deal with the German heavy panzers. The standard infantry anti-tank gun was the 6 pdr –…
Joining the M1 81mm Mortar and .30 cal light machine gun as support weapons for the US Army is this new heavy machine gun team. The M2 .50 Cal is an automatic, belt-fed, recoil operated, air-cooled machine gun. Although it has a maximum range of 4.5 miles the .50 Cal was mostly effective within 1.2 miles when…
With our forthcoming plastic Bolt Action US Infantry almost here we thought it a good idea to start giving them all the support they’ll need to fight the Axis forces. This week sees us bring you three new support teams with this one being the .30 Cal light machine gun (the others being the .50…
Thrace was one of Macedonia’s traditional enemies, sitting as it did to the North of Macedon. As with many of Macedonia’s enemies they were conquered and their best troops duly pressed into Macedonian service. Peltasts owe much of their fighting style to that of the Thracian light infantry before them. Thracians were justly famous for their…
The title of Polemarch (roughly translated as ‘warlord’) became redundant around the time of the battle of Marathon. The duty of commanding an army was handed to the strategoi (literally ‘army leader’). In Athens we know that 10 strategoi were appointed by vote every spring – whether this practice was followed by other states is…
The Lakedaimonians used Helot slaves at Thermopylae and Plataea, although we do not know how they were equipped to fight, we do know that they were dressed in the standard way for shepherds. Later evidence shows that they were used to harass the enemy with stones and javelins, with only an animal skin covering one…
Andy Hobday