More new Greek releases for you! Giving you the speed to react to your opponent, the troops to harry his flanks as well as protect your own these Greek Light Cavalry should play an integral role in your army. Riding bareback like their Thessalian counterparts, the Greek Light Cavalry have much in common with them…
Greek Commanders lead from the front, Whether they were the Kings of Sparta, The Boeotarchs of Boeotia or the Strategoi of other cities. All would be equally well equipped in highly decorated or richly coloured armour and equipment. Metal could be tinned, silvered or plated with gold and electrum. The left hand commander is equipped…
The latest release for our Greek range are these lovely peltasts. Greek armies were not completely made up of hoplites and nor were Macedonians armies purely pike-armed – both made good use of other troop types – amongst the most effective being the javelin-armed peltasts. Peltasts were a key element in skirmishing and protecting the…
Wearing bronze cuirasses these hoplites will fit nicely with your plastic hoplites, providing even more variety as well as giving them a heavy infantry feel. The hoplite was the mainstay of the Greek army during the Persian wars. Every man was expected to provide his own equipment so he could fight in the phalanx. This…
By Stephen May Hoplite shields were either painted or covered in a thin sheet of bronze. These could then have an image painted onto its face (or embossed in bronze). I am showing how to paint a white shield, although this method can be adapted for any colour. I have shown how to do this…
Sparta had two kings, one stayed in Sparta and one lead the army in war. The king would command from the front where his heroic deeds could be celebrated, Leonidas is a prime example of this. Spartan kings seem to have worn the transverse crest, as surviving carving seems to show this as dyed in…
The term ‘Spartan’ should only be used to donate the hoplites from the principal city of Sparta; the hoplites employed from other territories on the Peloponnese were ‘Lakedaimonian’. There is a widely held belief that the Spartans wore only bronze armour. This is not true, although due to their hoplite profession they are likely to…
One of the finest sights in wargaming are the serried ranks of pike that fill Macedonian armies (and those of several other armies in the period). Our eagerly-anticipated plastic phalangites are now here! Philip II, father of Alexander the Great, spent much of his youth as a hostage at Thebes, where he studied under the…
Following on from the release of the Ancient Greek Hoplites and Spartans plastic boxed sets are these linen and bronze-armoured soldiers from the Classical period. The hoplite phalanx of the Classical periods in Greece (approx. 750-350 BCE) was a formation in which the hoplites would line up in close order ranks. Shields locked together the…
Adding more presence and variety to the front line of your hoplite phalanx, these three Greek commanders will add steely discipline to your troops as they face down their enemies up close and personal. One of these metal models holds his sword aloft whilst the other two carry the trademark hoplite spear. All three carry…
Andy Hobday