Here is the latest addition to our new Macedonian range – the Royal Guard! Silver Shields, White Shields and Brazen Shields – all elite hypaspist regiments that can be represented on the tabletop. The Macedonian phalanx was one of the world’s greatest bodies of fighting men, and the best of them were amongst the very finest…
Are your Phalangites an unruly bunch? Thrash them into shape with this splendid new command pack! These new metal miniatures, sculpted by ace designer Steve Saleh, is just the job to lead your phalangites into the fray. If these new models have persuaded you to start a new Macedonian army, you’ll be wanting to get…
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…
‘To begin with the armament of the infantry is assigned to three types if we make the most basic distinction. These three types are on the basis of their equipment: the hoplite, the light-armed and the peltasts. … The Peltasts are more lightly armed that the hoplites, their shield is both smaller and lighter than…
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…
Whilst famous for their outstanding light cavalry, the Thessalians could also provide a great number of slingers and javelinmen. The hill peoples around the Thessalian Plain would be well versed in the use of slings and javelins from a young age. Thessalian psiloi distinguished themselves by defeating the cavalry on left flank of the Athenian…
Mostly hailing from the mountainous areas of what is now the Balkans, the Illyrians were a large and diverse group analogous with the Celts and Germans. The Illyrians lived to the West of Macedon and were a traditional foe for the Macedonians. Illyrian forces excelled in raiding and would do so either by land or…
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…
This set of miniatures represents Greek Mercenary Hoplites and other Greek City states from the 5th Century covering the wars with Persia, to the 4th century and the titanic struggle for Greek supremacy in the Peloponnesian war and the wars with Philli
Silver Shields, White Shields and Brazen Shields – all elite hypaspist regiments that can be represented on the tabletop. Box contains 24 plastic and metal figures Note: Models supplied unassembled a
Andy Hobday