DBA 3.0 II/68a Pictish Hordes!

The Savage Hordes put on their War Paint 
        & headed south to pillage the fair lands of Britain...! 

No it's not Waarrgghh Nicola Sturgeon leading the SNP into Westminster, it's the great blue painted Pictish Horde.  The 2nd Army for our Age of Arthur Campaign.....

Picked up a few of these off EBay, the rest we added.  Very heavy with the Mel Gibson warpaint.  A nice touch is the 'purple heather' grass tufts, Tajima1 from EBay

Light Horse

The 3Pike Massive

Chariots

Broch Camp

WarBand!!! WWWAAARGGHH

Psiloi

Another DBA II/69b Sassanid Persian Army 220-651AD

Another Sassanid Persian Army for sale.  My super bike is now paid for, so I might start keeping some of the armies I paint!  This army hasn't changed that much from the DBA 2.2. lists.  I went heavy with the 'manly persian pink', worked well.

1x3Cv(Gen), 1x4Kn, 4x3Cv, 1xEl or 3Cv, 1x3Cv or 2Lh, 1x3Cv or 2Ps, 1x2Lh or 3Ax, 2x7Hd, 1 DBA Camp

DBA 3.0 II/81a Sub Roman British - Army of Arthur

Here's the finished Sub Roman Brits, Army of Arthur.  In the end a pleasure to paint. I tried to mimic the look from the supplement, especially the red & white shields.

II/81a Army of Arthur 
1 x 3Kn(General), 1x3Cv, 1x3Cv(Welsh Gentry), 1x4Kn(Cataphracts),
2x4Bd(Legionaires), 5x4Sp(Pedyt), 1x2Ps(Archers)  

The Kontos/Spears for the horsemen are wire spears attached with epoxy.  The Legionnaires had their soft metal spears removed.  I've added strips of plastic for swords, so they can be easily identified as Blades. The bases finished with 'large' tufts of static grass.

A mighty foe to face?

Arthur himself, Minifigs I believe

Could not resist, Sarmations! Old Glory

Cavalry, Minifigs again.  Wire Spears.

Welsh Gentry

The Pedyt

Veni Vedi Vici Transfers, contrast well with the Shield colours.

Late Roman Archers, Minifigs.

Late Roman Legionnaires, Minifigs again.

Project Arthur

Another goal for this year.  I plan on creating 5 different DBA armies based on the Age of Arthur, Warhammer Ancient Battles source book.  Another cracking piece of work, lots of lovely inspiration.  It's been out a few years now but I'm determined to build some armies.

The five armies will be, Arthur's Army, Vortigern's Army (both Sub Roman Brits variants), Scots- Irish, Picts & Early Saxon.  The Picts & Scots-Irish will be very Chariot heavy.  I've collected enough figures for each army, though I keep changing my mind of some characters.  The first one is nearly completed, here are a few pics of the basic army.

12 Bases

4 Bases of Horsemen

5 Bases of Spear

DBA 3.0 II/26 Later Rhoxolanian Sarmatian

A possible 12 Knight Army, who can resist the wonderful Sarmatians.  The majority of this lot were picked up as a bargain buy, a few extra bases & here we have the finished army.  The DBA 3.0 list goes a bit further & allows the addition of foot sloggers in the guise of 3 Psiloi or 3 Hordes.  I used some Anglo-Saxon Spearmen figures for the hordes of Sarmation farmers, close enough.  The rank & file Sarmation Knights are coloured to reflect the green/red/blue horse hoof armour.  The nobles & the King are mounted on metal barded hoses with equivalent armour.

Hordes of farmers & Psiloi

Sarmation Camp & Horse Archers

The Sarmations, very colourful.

Charge!!!!

Sarmation King & Nobles

Nobles

The King