In Search of.....the Tibetans (Pt.2)

 

 

After my last posting on the Tibetans I discovered another figure manufacturer with a small range - Viking Forge - http://www.thevikingforge.net/15mm-da-tibetan.html

MDC30 - Tibetan HC (MH18 horse) - shown above
MDC31 - Tibetan Cataphract (MH06 horse)
MDC36 - Tibetan general (MH06 horse)

I was also contacted by an old friend who had some cataphracts to sell.  

With these new acquisitions I thought my army was nearing completion.  I should have re-read my previous posting.

Looking more closely at this extensive list I determined that I still needed a few more troops:

1 x 3Bd Nepalese swordsmen
1 x 4Sp garrison - listed as Reg Sp(I) in DBMM
1 x 3Cv Nomad nobles - Ch'iang
3 x 2Lh Nomad horse archers - Ch'iang, Sumpa, Aza/T'u-yu-hun
              plus an indeterminate number of dismounted cataphracts

So what did they look like?  More research.....Ho Hum!

(a) Books:
'Armies and Enemies of Ancient China' by John Greer (WRG) - very limited coverage and somewhat out-of-date
'DBMM Army Lists Book 3' by PB (Pub: WRG) - more details and the confusing 'blurb'
Tibetan Civilisation by R Stein                                 } not yet
Tibet - A Political History by T Shakabpa                } acquired

(b) Slingshot:
A Tibetan Wargames Army (88/18-21, Chris Peers) - useful
Under the flag of Yar Lung [Tibetan armies, 7th-9thC] (110/6-18, Phillipe Allard) - useful
A Tibetan Cavalryman (189/35, Karl Heinz Ranitzsch) - my collection only goes up to 182 - can anybody help here ???

(c)  Blogs:
https://tinmountain.blogspot.com/2020/05/15mm-tibetan-army-completed.html - mainly army pics
https://tinmountain.blogspot.com/2020/03/15mm-tibetan-nomadic-allied-cavalry.html - same
http://theminiaturespage.com/workbench/210324/ - army painting
http://theminiaturespage.com/workbench/757264/ - infantry
https://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.69.2.html - reconstruction
https://dragonsarmory.blogspot.com/2018/01/tibetan-noble-cavalry_20.html - very interesting
https://dragonsarmory.blogspot.com/2018/01/tibetan-royal-guardsman.html - covers a bit of the same ground

Sadly, there will need to be a Part 3.

Motley Crew (part 1)

Z 219 - Z 222 - Z 223 - Z 225 - Z226

Z 234 - Z 238 - Z240

Big Al brought along some mixed Dark Ages 15mm figures to try to sell them - the box lid had this message:  "74 (virtually weaponless!) old minifigs - but very patient person with 'Micro-Drill' may well make something of them.  £5 for the lot (6-8p per figure).  Will be 'binned' if no sale.  Box must be returned."

Needless to say there were no takers.  Rather than going into the bin I offered to sort them out at a reduced price - Al gave them to me for nowt.

Some were on multiple bases (2, 3 or 4) and many were singles.  The first tasks were to separate, clean up and identify.  After consulting an old Minifigs catalogue I came up with the following:

1 x Z 219 - Ottonian HI, sp, pointed shield
4 x Z 222 - Viking huscarl, axe
1 x Z 223 - Viking Bondi, sp
4 x Z 225 - Vikikn berserk, sw
4 x Z 226 - Viking ulfhednar, sp
7 x Z 234 - Anglo-Saxon speaman in cap
1 x Z 238 - Saxon select fyrd, sp
20 x Z 240 - Late Saxon huscarl, axe

42 out of 74 identified so far.  I will now have to consult "Armies of the Dark Ages 600-1066" by Ian Heath to work out the rest.

Obviously this project is going to take some time.  First priority will be the Vikings as I can use them in my growing Welsh army.  The one Ottonian will probably get donated to the club.


Round Up

Monday 26th March 2018 - WDW

N.W. Frontier (Afghans v Brits) - "The Men Who Would Be Kings"
"Liberte" - boardgame - politics & intrigue in revolutionary France
DBM - Later Carthaginian v Patrician Roman - once again I held on magnificently to my assigned flank whilst my C-in-C crashed and burned.  Such is life!

Thursday 29th March 2018 - Halifax

Went to Halifax Modeller's World but only picked up one box of 1/72nd figures:

HaT 8128 - The Assyrian Army

This will go into the 'stock pile' to swell the numbers of unpainted plastics.

Seems that HMW is swerving towards the 1/32 (or 1/35) scale figures these days.  If I wanted those I would take the much shorter journey to Pontefract.

Tuesday 3rd April 2018

Caught up with TA & Co output - two more DBA v3.0 games:

Athenians vs.Early Achaemenid Persians - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWRVFq6oslY&feature=youtu.be

Lombards vs. Magyars - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ugonKxFkLw

Thursday 5th April 2018

Whilst trawling on the Internet I found a post about the new version of Saga:

Saga 1 vs Saga 2 : Main differences spotted so far (31/3/18)

https://www.madaxeman.com/Downloads/SAGA2.pdf