Last night I completed basing the Ptolemaic Elephant Corp, for Raphia. Ptolemy deployed 73 of these African elephants in an attempt to counter the rather larger number of rather larger Seleucid Indians. Unfortunately he failed to put them through the elephant equivalent of assertiveness training, and most of them subsequently routed back, through his own forces. As usual, all photos are clickable.
The magnificent beasts and crews are from Aventine's range. I painted the elephants, and my good friend Nick Speller, the crews (beautifully).
Nick also painted the escorting Cretan and NeoCretan archers, who are a mixture of Foundry and Gorgon miniatures. You may be able to see that they are in several different shades of red. In the game these will form 5 units, each of one elephant and two stands of escorts.
13 comments:
An impressive phalanx of Pachyderms. Untrained or not I wouldn't want to be an infantryman facing that lot!
Very nice work, btw.
very nice work indeed
and who could possibly resist glamorous nellies in their army?
(OK, me so far, but that's only because the armies I've done didn't historically have any hephalumps)
Thanks Lee!
Tamsin, ditch those armies! Go Indian, or Burmese, instead...
Absolutely fabulous painting an basing on these troops. Best, Dean
Very impressive!
Phil.
Wow, what an excellent collection! I'm so jealous, so many elephants!!!
Heffalumps! The sheer amount of material you've produced for this is astonishing.
FMB
I love it when a plan comes together... :-)
Very cool! Welcome to the Elephantarchs club.
Regards HGA.
Absolutely AWESOME!
Very impressive paint job. Bases particularly good.
Fantastic Ptolemaic elephants and Cretan escorts Simon! You can never enough elephants...
Many thanks all!
Cyrus, at a quick count I now have 13 live elephants, and 11 dead ones. In the autumn, I'll paint the Indians...
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