Communal Italian 15mm DBA Army

It had taken me a while to source and paint up a camp element for my 15mm Communal Italian DBA army (Book III/73) but having done that I can now post some photos.  I decided to paint the army as that of medieval Venice. The figures are mostly by Mirliton, but there are also a couple of Museum Miniatures plus a few old Corvus Belli in there too. The army has had 2 outings so far - defeating Early Crusaders, but losing to Lombards.

The full army

Knight General with the banner of St Mark, plus other Knights and Light Horse 'Berrovieri'

Religiously motivated Contadini Foot (7Hd)

The Contadini Foot supported by Crossbowmen and Archers (Psiloi)

The Spearmen from the Sestieri of Venice - Santa Croce, Cannaregio, Castello, San Polo, San Marco and Dorsoduro (shield designs are conjecture)

The Venetian Carroccio - Command Wagon - from Mirliton, with an added Museum Miniatures priest

The camp - the early Bridge of Sighs?...

Southern Sung Chinese 15mm DBA Army

Had time today to take pictures of the Southern Sung Chinese army by Essex miniatures that Andy got me for Xmas 2025 - supplemented with some lovely resin figures from Ten Kingdoms. These are the Southern Sung, DBA army III/62b, dating from between 1127 and 1279AD.  The army has had two outings so far, both times defeating Samurai armies.

The General at the head of his cavalry

The camp - a resin pavilion from Amazon, with Essex guards

The Ten Kingdoms resin cavalry

Mongol Light Horse from Ten Kingdoms

Ten Kingdoms Sung artillery

Essex Chinese rocket launcher

Essex solid hordes

The infantry - blades from the left, solid then fast, solid crossbowmen on the right - all by Essex

Eastern Patrician Roman 15mm DBA Army

Having recently completed an Early Byzantine army, I added some additional figures from Gladiator Games (Equities, Clibanarii, Auxilia Palatina) to morph it into an Eastern Patrician Roman army - Book II/82.

The General (Kn), Clibanarii (4Kn) and Equites (3Kn)

Eastern Legionaries

Auxilia Palatina and Mobile Baggage

Archers and Psiloi

Allied Hunnic Light Horse

Early Byzantine 15mm DBA Army

Having recently re-read Robert Graves' 'Count Belisarius' and seeing the new range of Cromarty Forge Late Romans, I was inspired to paint up an Early Byzantine army for DBA 3.0.

The figures are a mix of Cromarty Forge (for the cavalry), Gladiator (for the huns, light archers and skutatoi) and Forged in Battle (for the auxilia and Goths).  As per usual the figures are painted in acrylics and gloss varnished.

Belisarius (on the left) with his Gothic federate

The army with all the options - essentially the choice is taking 5 x Cavalry or 5 x Light Horse, and the choice of the Gothic knights, or one element of auxiliary

The skutatoi (legionaries)

Allied Light Horse

Belisarius' cavalry, armed with lance and bow - plastic figures by Cromarty Forge