and this time it is not an euphemism, like it or not the whole country is in quarantine and people is worried. But if you are locked at home and kicking, painting is a good way to employ your energies, especially when your lead mountain is enormous. I have launche a determined attack to my successors lead pile. Last year I basically painted all my old Navigator Miniatures (but I found some odds and ends recently...) and now I am attacking the additions to that army, mainly some Selecucid themed 1st Corps miniatures.
1st Corps successor range is both lovely and exhaustive. They are also on the smallish side of 28mm so they fit well with navigator. I had basically a 12 men group of Seleucid Pikemen and 4 Seleucid companions. Here are the pikemen:
LBMS shield transfer from the 1st Corps range.
They are very nice figures, the casts are very crisp, with almost no visible flash. The sculpts themselves are very nice, and in a bag of 8 line pikemen you have plenty of variation. I have gone for a non-uniform look for them. They are not a formed permanent unit, but the standard recalled military settlers. Probably I will add more pikemen to this group. What I will use them for?
Obviously for a Seleucid force... as game wise, SPQR/Clash of Spear for Skirmish, and L'Art De La Guerre for bigger battles. Now I know that some annoying people yell when you say pikemen and skirmish, but despite their inarticulate black and white vision of gaming (yes I am referring to that idiot on the Lead Adventure forum that basically spam other people threads complaining about this... and then even say he does not play ancients... so mr. Village Idiot?), no one really defined skirmish as type of engagement or size...
For me skirmish rulesets are not by default about skirmishes, but are played at a lower level that full battle games (another pet peeve... stop calling a battle game 'strategy' it is tactical... in the ancient world campaigns were strategic... but well this is a thing coming from stammering fantasy ad sci-fi game designers and players...). Being played a lower level nothing stops us to just focus on a limited area of a larger engagement. You can have part of a phalanx advancing on the table as a part of a scenario and still play with what people calls skirmish rules. It is like when you play a platoon level game set during the battle of Kursk (as in the excellent TFL pint sized campaigns for Chain of Command). Yet, for some strange reasons some gamer seems completely unaware of telescoping approach to engagements... but let's be honest... some so called wargamers appears to have been produced without a brain... and this is not just happening in hobby wargames... professional wargaming is filled to the brim with them! (Any reference to that scam of KCL wargaming network and its crew of imposters is purely intentional...)
Anyway snarky comments aside, enjoy these pikemen!
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