Thursday, October 16, 2025

II/69 Sassanid Persian (2)


220 AD - 651 AD

DBA 2.2

15mm Essex Miniatures

Army Composition: 1 x (Gen) 3Cv, 1 x 4Kn or 3Cv, 4 x 3Cv, 1 x 2Lh, 1 x El or 3Cv, 1 x 3Ax or 3Cv, 2 x 7Hd, 1 x 2Ps

The two DBA armies below are additional commands to my other II/69 Sassanid Persians which gives me a total of 3 x DBA commands to play DBA Big3. I usally use my DBA armies to play solo Command Colours Ancients and Basic Impetvs games vs Byzantines.

































2 Bases 4Kn Cataphracts




Two Bases 2Lh




III/63b Ghaznavid (2)


1002 AD - 1186 AD

DBA 2.2

15mm Essex Miniatures

Army Composition: (Gen) 1 x 3Cv or El, 1 x El, 3 x 3Cv, 1 x 2Lh, 2 x 4Sp or 4Bw, 1 x 4Ax or 2Lh or El. 1 x 3Bd or 2Ps, 2 x 3Bw.

This is the final "add on" army for my Ghaznavid which is now a total of 3 x DBA Armies. I have two III/63b and one III/63a lots of elephants and cavalry to play with, I use most of my DBA-DBM armies for Basic Impetvs and Command Colors Ancients solo games too and one day/weekend I will post some of solo games with pictures~ :o)

Histroical Enemies: Seljuks, Ghurids, Indians and other interal fractional groups.

Also check out Lawrence (This Life in Lead) blog He is currently working on his 15mm Ghaznavid project - awesome painting!





















Monday, August 4, 2025

15mm Essex Goths Vandals Gepids


Army: 16 elements/units x 3kn, 4 x 3Cv, 8 x 2Lh, 36 x 4Wb, 8 x 3Bw, 8 x 2Ps

The painted figures/units below are used as Dark ages Barbarians which I have done so with my DBA army list  i.e. early Ostrogoths Visigoths Vandals Gepids and many others during the dark ages or Age of Invasions. I also use the army or armies for DBMM, Triumph, L'Art de la Guerre (ADLG) and Impetvs rules sets.

The Ostrogoths were a Germanic people who created an empire in the 3rd century CE and established a kingdom in Italy in the 5th century

The Visigoths were a Germanic tribe that migrated into and conquered parts of the Roman Empire in the 5th century AD. They were influential in the decline of the Western Roman Empire and the Early Middle Ages. The Visigoths originated from the Theruingi, a group of people that included Slavs, Germans, and Sarmatians

The Gepids were an East Germanic tribe which who spoke the same language as the Goths, but probably different dialects

The Vandals were also Germanic people who were first reported in the written records as inhabitants of what is now Poland, during the period of the Roman empire. Much later, in the fifth century, a group of Vandals led by kings established Vandal kingdoms first within the Iberian Peninsula, and then in the western Mediterranean islands, and North Africa