After the last game of Field of Glory I checked my ancient
figures to see if I could make another army besides Classical Greek. I discovered I was one stand (3 figures)
short of the Alexandrian Macedonian Starter Army, for the Agema no less.
My Tin Soldier ancient army had been commenced in the mid
1980s for WRG 6th Edition; while predominantly Greek (as in Hoplite)
I had started to expand it to cover Macedonia and the Successors as well as
rebasing for 7th Edition (and even a bit of DBM although those rules
never “did it for me”). I hadn’t painted
any of these figures in close on twenty years – could I match the style or
would the new recruits stand out like the proverbial?
As part of the “blending” I painted all the Agema’s cloaks
with the same purple and also touched up the older figures helmets with the
same gold colour. The hardest thing to
match was the flock which had faded from a yellow green to dark yellow. I just altered my blend and got a pretty
close match.
Completed Agema:
The whole army was upgraded to magnetic bases:
Here is the army ready for battle (or rather ready to be
photographed):
Next is to see what troops I have to expand this army with
the optional troops and whether there is motivation to take some more figures
from lead mountain.
Nice work on those, but not enough Pike for a Macedonian army - I haven't counted but I think I have about 32 pike elements... and a whole 6 painted!
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