Here are some images of Dave Lycett's wonderful 90mm Macedonians and Persians from our game at the recent Partizan show. All of the miniatures are from Expeditionary Force and painted by David. I wrote a scenario called "Gaugamesque" because of its similarity to Gaugamela, and we fought it out on a very austere table with no terrain. I posted some pics on Facebook on Sunday, but there are more here.
Scythed chariot, above and Persian foot, below- hand painted shields! All of the minis are of this quality.
Above, Dave converted some Schleich camels by adding a howdah and crew- Queen Semiramis would have loved these! Below, Darius' command chariot.
Above the Macedonian army (lovely Prodromoi in the foreground), and below the Persians.
Above, mid battle. We used To the Strongest!, of course. The Persians crushed the Macedonian left, and the Macedonians, the Persian left.
Below Phil Garton, David and Matthew Hotston who helped us to play the game and as the Persians, eventually crushed Alexander (but not before we gave them a few scary moments!).
The obligatory picture of wargamer, pointing. ;-)
Myself, above and Dave, below!
These figures really are terrific. There's a surprising amount of variety in the poses, more than some 28mm ranges!
The elephants are also converted from Schleich models, they are huge and quite stunning.
A huge thank you to Dave for bringing all his wonderful toys! Alas time was so short that I took no photos of any of the other games, and there certainly were some splendid ones at the show! It was a great show, kudos to the Newark Irregulars for scoffing in the face of Covid. It was great to see so many chums, after such a long interval, and oh so many miniatures!
11 comments:
Very striking game. I loved the camels and elephants.
A wonderful spectacle 👍
Awesome looking battle, terrific figures!
Best Iain
A beautiful looking game !
I think this was favourite game on the day. Dave did a wonderful job painting them and-of course the elephants were spectacular,well done.
Looks magnificent!
Great post Simon and Matthew’s collection is quite stunning.
It certainly looked very impressive, not sure whether it'll catch on though :)
90mm figures, my goodness, that is a truly epic scale to game in! They do look stunning but you must need an enormous playing area!
Wow! What a table, what a battle, and what tremendous figures!
What a range there is in this varied and personal hobby: from 2mm (if I am correct) to that scale pictured here.
The table looks to be about 12 feet long. TtS! was used. Just one deck per side, right?
The detail on these "huge" miniatures is stunning. The companions look like they are right of central casting (the movie with Colin F as Alex).
Very, very nice. Thanks for posting and continued good gaming. I look forward to your next post.
Cheers,
Chris
Those are inspirational pictures. I’m working on a similar project with 54mm figures.
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