Reply To: Gaming in China’s History

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Previously posted on Discord, but just to chime in here as well …

@warhammergrimace has me going on Chinese ancients now.  I’m working up “virtual miniatures” in Photoshop, modular so they can be re-posed and re-colored at will … with four basic poses so far.  These will be scaled for virtual miniature tabletop play at 25mm square bases (per rules of TSR Battlesystem 2nd Edition) so I can do battles in the late Warring States period (late 3rd Century BCE, when iron and steel largely replaced bronze weapons so far as I can tell).

So far I have …

1) Basic sword and shield pose (jian double-edged straight swords)
2) Polearm pose (peasant spears and dagger-axe heavy infantry)
3) Archer pose
4) Crossbow pose

Next I’ll need a commander pose and at least some kind of horseman with spear.  I’ll be leaving off the chariots as I think these had largely fallen out of battlefield use by the late Warring States period.

I may need a horse archer pose as well … or was this more of a Mongol / Xiongnu kind of thing?
I defer to the experts on that one.