'Black Sheep' Turkoman 15mm DBA Army

Managed to (finally) finish this DBA army over the Christmas break - a 15mm 'Black Sheep' Turkoman army: DBA Book IV/77 dating from the late 14th Century.  The Black Sheep (Qara-Qoyunlu) were a confederation of Turkoman and Kurdish clans that ruled over Azerbaijan and Iraq.  The army is mostly armoured lance and bow -armed cavalry with some light horse and foot archers.  The figures are by Essex Miniatures, painted in acrylics and gloss varnished.

The complete army

The General - a cavalry element

The standard bearer carries the flag of the Qara-Qoyunlu

Turkoman Horse Archers and Light Horse

Tirkash-ban armoured horse archers (cavalry)

Pushan-Push Armoured Cavalry

Qullughchi Armoured Cavalry

Bowmen and Handgunners (3 or 4 Bow elements and Psiloi in DBA terms)

Polybian Roman 10mm DBA Army

This 10mm Polybian Roman DBA Army is the matched pair for the Carthaginians.  The figures are once more Pendraken Miniatures.

Roman Legionaries - Hastati in the front line, then Principes, then Triarii with spears in the third line

Velites

Legionary Cavalry - Equites Alares

The DBA army

With a £1 coin for scale reference

Carthaginian 10mm DBA Army

Have finally managed to finish painting a Carthaginian DBA army in 10mm scale.  The figures are by Pendraken and were a Christmas present from Andy (Christmas 2018 that is!).  I scaled up the bases to put more figures on per base.

Citizen Spearmen

Hannibal at the head of his Heavy Cavalry

War Elephants

Numidian Cavalry and Psiloi

The complete DBA Army

Scale reference with a £1 coin

Thracians

The first elements for a Thracian DBA army - the 15mm figures are by Xyston, painted with acrylics and gloss-varnished.

Thracian Peltasts with the 'rhomphaia' or falx - the long-bladed cutting weapon

The Thracian king and his retainers

Early Imperial Roman DBA Army

Next up in the collection of DBA armies that I painted for my friends' birthdays is this Early Imperial Roman army for Orhan.  The figures are mostly by 'Forged in Battle' but there are also some Xyston and Essex in there too.  The photos below cover all the options for the army except for camels.  There is also a choice of regular legions or the Prateorian cohorts.

The Emperor and Praetorian Cavalry (Equites Singulares) on the left, and Legion Cavalry (Equites Alares) on the right

The Praetorian Guard cohorts

The Legions

Legion artillery - the Onager

Part of the baggage train

Asian (on the left) and Numidian (on the right) Light Horse

Slingers and Javelin Psiloi skirmishers at left and right, and Warband 'Symmachiari' in the centre 

Auxiliary cohorts