After a quiet few weeks on the website here's a couple of bits and pieces to round out the
Mycenean army that appeared a few months ago
First up is the near-obligatory 25/8mm Genius Commander on a 40mm round ADLG commander base.
He is from
Redoubt Enterprises Trojan Wars range, selected as much for his big cowhide double-bass shield as any other reason.
The figure is
code TX4, representing Achilles, hero and leader of the Myrmidons on foot in bronze armour with bronze helmet, figure of eight shield
He comes accompanied by shield bearer (who didn't make it onto the base).
Next up are some "Barker Marker" 40x40 bases, featuring 'shrunken' photos of my own chariots taken from directly overhead together with a push-pin handle. Very simple do to - an overhead photo of a chariot, cropped and resized to fit on a 40x40 MDF base.
They function primarily as a ZOC marker, but also as you can see here my Chariots are deeper than the regulation 40x40 and so there may be times when it could be useful to have a 40x40 substitute base to drop in, perhaps when they are turning or in a congested part of the table where the extra 10mm on their bases would get in the way. These markers fulfil that role - and also act as Ambush Markers too for 3 uses from one base.
Finally, some Mycenean-specific hit markers using - again - the textbook cowhide shields.
There are from
Magister Militum - £2 for 8. They also have other shields, and my upcoming Assyrian army will probably feature a similar idea.
Mounted on 18mm round bases, with the edges colour-coded for the number of hits they are small enough to fit in behind each unit without being too distracting. Since doing these it's been suggested to me that possibly doing a similar thing with single archer figures could be a neat way of identifying the units with integral archer support.
