Apparently 4 IS the Magic Number

Yurt Tibetan Be Kidding Me!

Or a tale of how many Cataphracts are an idea amount for an ally command

As I work through Project Lead Mountain and the huge collection of Chinese armies I also have to proved some allied contingents for the. One of them is Tibetan. This army has a reputation that says it can be hard to win with because its quite small and therefore brittle. The one redeeming feature of the list using DBM and DBMM is that you can take an army that consists of only their fearsome fully armoured cataphracts who despite being bow armed only dismount as Superior Spearmen because that's their fighting style.

There's a few Tibetan ranges available but I settled on the Khurasan Miniatures from the USA as I was doing an order for some other figures. http://khurasanminiatures.tripod.com/tibetan.html

The figures are well sculpted and cover all the options should I ever decide to expand the troops I have into a full army.

As an ally the Tibetans get the choice of taking the mandatory allied generals cataphract element and between three and ten more ordinary cataphract elements. I opted for the mandatory minimum required which is 1+3 hence FOUR being the magic number.

Here are the completed cataphract elements and their alternative dismounted spear elements. The Tibetan banner is one I made myself.

 

 

15mm "Chinese" Army Off EBay Part 3

Progress Update On The Chinese 3

The Lockdown means I have plenty of enforced at home time. So when I am not drinking a nice ice cold Vodka and Orange I have been working through Project Lead Mountain. This years main project is to complete the Chinese Mega Morph I have blogged about earlier this year. I plan to create a Sung, Sui, Tang and Yuan army morph collection. I think the Ming option might be a morph too far at this time.

This is the first major progress update I have managed to do. Taking figures off old tired bases consumed a lot of my time but having a lot of quite nicely painted figures to hand made it a lot easier than I had previously thought. 

This blog contains a progress report on 196 pre-painted infantry, 12 pre-painted cavalry and 158 newly painted infantry. I made up a total of 87 elements in all [354 infantry and 12 cavalry]. This has allowed me to produce the 36 missing Horde elements to use in the Sui Million Man Army which has a total of 60 Irr Hd O.

I will start with the pre-painted infantry.

Essex Spearmen used to create Reg Ax O [Blue Pennants]

Essex Spearmen used to create Reg Ax O [Green Pennants]

Essex Javelinmen use to Create Reg Ax O

Mike Models [I think] Irr Bw O Crossbowmen

Mike Models [I think] Irr Ps O Crossbowmen

Essex Javelinmen Reg Ax O

Leftover Outpost Swordsmen Reg Bd O I added spare shields to make them elite looking

Mike Models [I think] Unknown Armoured Cavalry

Two Dragons Peasants [sold by Minifigs] 10 Irr Hd O

Essex Mixed Infantry 10 Irr Hd O

Now for the Brand New infantry mostly Essex Chinese Peasants 16 Irr Hd O

Essex Peasants plus two officers repurposed into Long Spear Infantry 4 x Reg Pk I

Six spare Essex Peasants used to create 2 x Irr Ax O or Irr Wb F

Outpost Unarmoured Swordsmen 4 x Irr Bd I

Outpost Unarmoured Archers 12 x Reg Bw I/O

All the elements ready to be put in their storage boxes.