
So I'd been staring at their website, at the spartan mini's for a fair while trying to work out what i could do with them. They basically only offer the straight up hoplite troop, spear, sheild and breastplate (yeh spartans didn't go to war with bare chests, no matter how manly that made you look).
To start off with i was thinking a high elf list maybe? But high elf spearmen are a bit flimsy, and the elite troops, well they could work, but since theres only 1 model type in the range(other than heros), i'd have to go with 1 elite troop type, or hmm, any way, the conclusion I came to was that I'd use them as a mortals of chaos army. The list i came up with had 2 big units of warriors with sheilds and halberds, and a big unit of chosen with sheild and halberd. Fighting in 2 ranks, thanks to 8th ed, I figured covered the spear/phalanx issue, and sheilds to survive missile fire (just like the movie !) The rest of the army consisted of some heros, a warshrine, some dogs, and a big unit of 40 marauders, for these i was thinking of finding greek auxiliary hoplites, for the historical rout, or persians, for the 300 "movie" theme army. Havent decided, so any tips or leads on mini's either way would rock.
This is a pic from the Croc games website of their phalanx.


Here you can see 3 packs with 1 "phalanx" each, 2 more of the starter kit with a phalanx, command, and limited ed hero, 6 differnt hero sets, and the war altar.



The idea here is this will be one of the generic warrior units, for the chosen unit i'll sculpt plumes onto all the helmets, wich shouldn't be too hard, fingers crossed.

Any way this is to proove that I've actually been doing stuff! sadly these guys have gone on hold, and I've gone back to getting the pump ogres ready, so more on them next!
That test model looks nice. Do another 299 "test models"...
ReplyDeleteLOVE that model! NOW DO MORE!!! :)
ReplyDeleteabsolutely love what your doing there, that range of miniatures is very appealing i have to say.
ReplyDeletecheers lads, they're the next army up after the pump ogres get a bit more build time, im just worried they might be a bit boring to play, thinking about some fast cav, but gota find some suitable models for them. thinking about marauder cav with scibor spartan heads, but not sure, so any tips would be fantastic
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