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Iberian Armoured Warriors set of 40 figures contains 36 armoured warriors and 4 command including chiefs and standard bearers. The Ancient Iberians were one of Rome's most formidable foes during the republics expansion into the Iberian Peninsular. Furthermore the Iberians were also in the pay of Carthage as one of the North African kingdom's most effective allies. The warriors in this set are armed with sword, daggers, javelins and pilums. They are also equipped with an assortment of oval, scutum and round shields. There will be a comprehensive series of shield transfers from LittleBigMenStudios to compliment the range. The figures feature much ornate belt, buckle, breast plate, sword hilt, helmet and crest detail allowing gamers to field a colourful and vibrant army.

12 x Late Roman Horse Archer figures

12 superbly detailed and animated models shooting to the front, side and rear representing the agility of these skilled mounted skirmishers. They come equipped with a powerful composite bow, bow case, arrow quiver, sword and small round shield strapped to their upper left arm.

The Romans steadily increased the use of mounted horse archers in the army as they came into conflict with more and more Stepp nomad peoples who excelled with the use of the bow, as well as having to face the arrow storms of Sassanid Persian Horse archers. Many of the Roman horse archer units were recruited from the very enemies they had to face.

The Notia Dignitatum a late Roman document listing the units of the Western and Eastern halves of the Empire lists nine units of light horse archers. There was probably a considerable amount more units in the Eastern Half of the Empire but the information is not as complete for this part of the Empire, but makes sense since most horse archer enemies were in the east.

These miniatures don’t have to be restricted to just use as Late Romans. They can be used as Early Byzantines representing the men that fought for Belisarius against the Sassanids and the reconquest of Italy from the Goths. And they can be used as Palmyran horse archers. Palmyra was a client state of Rome based in Syria. They acted as a buffer state against the Sassanid Empire and scored a notable victory over the Sassanids under their king Odenathus.

The Late Roman army was a fearsome foe. Its use of mixed arms, infantry and cavalry gave it flexibility and strength.

PACK CONTENTS

12 riders and 12 horses
The torso is separate to the lower body so you can swap torsos onto alternative lower legs and rotate the torso to create more poses.
A selection of powerful composite bow arms either being drawn back to shoot, loosed or being loaded.
There is a selection of Bow cases and arrow quivers, plus small round shields to strap to the upper left arm and sword scabbards.
There is a standard bearer option of an arm holding a Draco standard.
The horse frames contain water canteens and bed rolls as optional extras. You do not use the javelin cases on these figures (These can be used as spare parts on other miniatures)

28mm 1/56th scale Hard Plastic Victrix Multi pose Miniatures. 

This superb Victrix set contains 3 guns based on the XI system with options for 6 pounder or howitzer barrels. The set contains 15 crew with multiple arm options including shoulder straps and fringed epaulettes (These are to represent master gunners). There are also many head options with uncovered and covered shakos.

The Numidians were from North Africa, around modern day Tunisia and Morocco. They were superb light cavalry and supplied large quantities of horsemen to their close neighbours the Carthaginians.

Numidian cavalry excelled in skirmishing, hit and run tactics. They would shower their enemy with javelin fire and run away to avoid contact and then wheel around again to pelt the enemy with yet more missiles. They were often used as scouts and in pitched battles would outflank the enemy and wait in ambush.

They fought brilliantly for Hannibal during the second Punic wars, being major factors in his defeats of the Romans at the Trebia, Lake Trasimene and Cannae and they were also responsible for beating the Romans in Spain at the battles of Castulo and Ilorici under their charismatic and brilliant chieftan Masinissa.

At the final Roman battle against Hannibal at Zama, some Numidians under Masanissa changed sides and fought for the Romans defeating their fellow Numidians under the leadership of the aged King Syphax. The Numidians helped swing the tide of battle to the Romans favour.

Numidian cavalry fought as auxiliaries for Rome for many hundreds of years, they fought for Caesar and can be seen in evidence on Trajans column looking very much the same as they did during the Punic Wars.

This Victrix Miniatures set contains 60 superbly detailed Republican Romans. Suitable for The wars with Pyrrhos and the Punic wars against Carthage, the first and second Macedonian wars and the conquest of Greece and the wars against the Successors. They also can fight Celts, Spanish and Numidians.

The set contains 36 legionary figures in square pectoral armour which can be armed with pilums, swords and long spears and come with an assortment of 12 legionary helmets which include Montefortino, Attic and Corinthian styles.

Not only do you get the legionaries you get 18 light infantry in the set which can be made up as Velites or the less well armed earlier Roman light skirmishers (The choice is yours) They can also be sued for a massive variety of other troop types if you mix in shields and heads from our Greek sets and soon to be released Italian allied Legions.

Each set has 3 command frames giving you 3 Centurions and 3 standard bearers. There are musician arms which you can use to convert a legionary to a musician.

This fantastic set of miniatures represents Greek Hoplites of Sparta and Laconia from the 5th Century covering the end of the wars with Persia, to the 4th century and the titanic struggle for Greek supremacy in the Peloponnesian war against Athens and Thebes . You get 48 superbly detailed miniatures. The detail is crisp and sharp. There are 9 head variants.7 of these come in two halves. The hair plugs into the back of the head to enable us to achieve the distinctive moulding of the Spartan long hair. There is also a bare head and another with a shorter bob style to shoulders plus a helmet. There are a couple of crest options to make some officer variants. There are thrusting arms options, spear at rest options and sword arms. (Remember if you want to make more at rest arms, by rotating a thrusting arm 90 degrees it becomes a spear at rest position) There are 8 figures per sprue, 4 have shield arms attached and 4 have no arms attached to enable you to make the musician and other speciality positions for officers and character figures. There are cloaks and various sword scabbards to add even more character and flavour to your Hoplite miniatures. Making this set one of the finest detailed and versatile plastic sets on the market This set can be mixed with all the parts from the other 3 Hoplite sets, Athenian, Theban and Mercenary which all have their own speciality heads and options to add yet more variety to your Greek armies. Included in the box is a fantastic flyer produced for us by Great Escape Games giving you unit statistics for your Ancient Spartans to work with their Ancient Rules ‘Clash of Empires’, a superb set of rules that really capture the flavour of warfare in the ancient world. We have also produced sets of shield transfers designed by steve at Little Big Men Studios. These are listed on the shopping cart and will really make your Spartan shields stand out on the battlefield.