Wednesday, 28 November 2018

Roll Call - Part Three

Here is the next instalment of my Armies Reveal. Only two collections tonight - 15 WW2 Russians and 25mm female dark ages


Bits n pieces - air support, high command AA guns etc...

Russian infantry stands - mainly Command Decision by Old Glory


All the vehicles are Flames of War - the ones above are mainly later war IS 2 and IS 3 tanks, plus SU122 (I think)

T34/85 and SU 85/100 in winter camouflage and non winter T34/85's and SU somethings - they all look pretty similar in these images!

The next batch are T34/766 and KV1 plus some Lend Lease American trucks

A couple of armoured cars, BT7 light tanks and a whole lot more SU self propelled guns

This is one of my favourite armies, even though it has the purists wailing and gnashing their teeth - an all female dark ages army comprising mainly Shadowforge Valkyries as female Vikings...

An eclectic mix in the first box - some Shadowforge Vikings, a chariot pulled by four naked male slaves, some mounted archers by Eureka and a mounted leader by I Kore from the Keltos range

Light infantry and archers from a mixture of Shadowforge elves (no longer manufactured) the Tribal range and Eureka ancient Greeks

The female Bondi - these are all Shadowforge Valkyries


The cavalry - these are all by Eureka and are a mixture of Greek light horse, archers and female cataphracts...well, they were taking on male armies that had cataphract cavalry, so they needed some heavy support! In the bottom left is another I Kore piece - the Gael Princess Cliodna and her shield bearers, who have made a previous appearance on this blog:


And here is the previous image of the chariot - I think it was by a company called Amazon and I added one of the Shadowforge girls as the crew


I am not sure why it is, but I have noticed that the "prettiest" female sculpts all seem to come from Australian manufacturers - Shadowforge in particular! Some of the northern hemisphere "females" are so ugly, they look like men with - ahem - certain appendages added!

4 comments:

  1. That's a fun Viking army, I think the chariots and cavalry are what's going to do the purists most! Nice big mob of Soviets, I've got to dig mine out sometime!
    Best Iain

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    1. Thanks Iain - the girls are a bit of fun and they have won many battles against hairy arsed Saxons etc. I was always tempted to get the Ancient Greek and Egyptian figures Shadowforge do but they are pretty expensive compared with other manufacturers...

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  2. Quite a force of Soviets, Keith! Dark Age females? Never heard of such an army. Great collections!

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  3. Thanks Jonathan - re the females, I refer you to my blog in Sept 2017 relating to scientists claiming DNA proved a Viking warrior skeleton was female! I have used that as all the justification I need to claim this is a historically accurate force :)The Soviets, alas, have been unemployed for several years - Julian and I used to do quite a lot of Cross Fire with them, but we have not played those rules for quite some time, which is a shame, as for two player game, they work very well I think.

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