Wargames Atlantic Help Create Boundless Persia With A Flash Sale
September 22, 2020 by avernos
I'm a big fan of Wargames Atlantic and their ethos of emptying my pockets as quickly as possible with their plastic kits. Well they've decided that they can shake me down for cash more quickly by doing a flash sale on their website for the Persians!
Persian Infantry // Wargames Atlantic
Persian armies were built from the many kingdoms and tribes conquered first by the Achaemenids including the Median, Lydian, and the Babylonian empires. This box set can be used to create the infantry of Persia. They are wearing Median dress with heads suitable for several satrapies and allied tribes. So if you want to recreate Marathon or Thermoplayae you can't go wrong with this box.
This box set will give you enough parts to outfit 40 28mm infantry with weapons including bows, spears, kopis, and sagaris along with command options, for fans of massed battle games this is a terrific offer to build a core of your force incredibly cheaply, it's been a while since I saw decent figures at 50p a model and if you fancy seeing serried ranks of Persians dashing themselves against Alexanders army this is the way to go.
There is no word on when the sale is due to end, but if you have any interest in the ancients its worth jumping on them sooner rather than later and perhaps missing out. It's worth noting that the discount carries over to the bundle deals making them ridiculously cheap if you need a ton of chaff for your great king!
They used volleys of arrows that darken the sun
40 minis? Nobody got time for that amount of minis to be painted…
that’s a solid single unit, now go do that 5 more times 😉
How about…. no? XD
Lol you need your own John for that?
Maybe….
That what you call a unit.
Tryed to find Snickers on Google I dout it was destroyed in a battle? Gerry.
part of the ancient corporation wars of the 1980s others that fell were opel fruits, cocopops were previously wounded but surprised everyone with a full recovery from their death bed.
Lol.
You can never have too many Persian mini’s! 10 boxes should about do it!
just got an email from them warning it will end soon, but no idea when. I feel a Persian army coming on for…reasons
Persian Levy Infantry, the “goblin army” of the ancient wargamer (to put it into a more non historical wargamer friendly context).
These were usually massed formations (Sparabara) with the front rank carrying the large wicker shield and spear (interestingly this tower shield was typically too light to stop a spear thrust or arrow from close range BUT was large enough to cause a horse to falter if a charge was made against the Sparabara formation (perhaps the first instance of psychological warfare against horses?)). The formation then had up to nine ranks of archers behind it, thus causing a proverbial “storm of arrows” when the formation let loose.
Typically the Sparabara formations formed a static line to the front of the enemy, while the cavalry and chariots went for the enemy flanks or rear. The soldiers of the Sparabara were typically a kind of “territorial” (trained but not part of any standing army, instead called into service when Persia was at war).
So if you’re planning on going for a Persian army probably the MINIMUM size of these Sparabara units on the table would be 40 figures in most rank and file game systems. So now would be a good time to pick up a box or two (or three or five), if only someone could come up with a way to make Persian Tunic and Trouser transfers (instead of painting the insanely detailed patterns they wore). But I would say that NOTHING (not even Napoleonic Units) looks as colourful and as good as a Persian army on the table.
…..it’s just you might go through a few nervous breakdowns painting them all 😀