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Cover Your Flanks With Victrix’s Greek Light Cavalry
April 19, 2018 by brennon
Screening your flanks and covering your advance, Victrix has put together a set of plastic Greek Light Cavalry which is now available for you to buy from their webstore.
The set allows you to build twelve different riders to start building up for your force on the tabletop. They come armed with javelins, swords and shields.
The unit can also be combined with the Macedonian Greek Successor Heavy Cavalry kit if you want to mix and match things and give them a more faction specific look as well.
Once again, it's nice to see what Victrix are doing in plastic as they always weave plenty of motion into their models. All of them look like they are charging forward, ready to push the enemy off key positions.
What do you think of their plastic kits?
"All of them look like they are charging forward, ready to push the enemy off key positions..."
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Noice. Not too many of them during the infamous wars against Persia (Xerxes, Thermopylae, Plataea and the like). The Persians had such an overwhelming advantage in numbers and quality of cavalry that the Greek states focused on infantry warfare and on the navy.- the Ionian revolt taught the Greek states some harsh lessons on the subject of Persian tactics, equipment and strategy. The use of mounted psiloi (skirmishers) very much took off in places like Thessaly (which can be considered to be the home of Greek cavalry warfare – they had an enormous influence over Macedonian employment of cavalry) and in the Greek colonies in Italy. Very handy troops, and as ever, lovely sculpts. May sound a bit boring but the elite sacred bands of states like Thebes of the Hippeis of Sparta would ride horses to battle then dismount. Leonidas’ 300 Spartans were his Royal Guard, his Hippeis (which can be translated from the Greek to mean ‘horsemen’) so they probably rode to the Hot Gates, in which case it would be cool to have some of these guys guarding the horses back at the camp from infiltrating groups of Persian archers while the Immortals clash with the wall of elite hoplites under Leonidas at the front 🙂