Sarmatian Medium Cavalry

 These FiB lancers have been painted with leather armour instead of metal - the figures are the same as some of the "heavy cavalry" I posted last week, just the paint is different! 

I also adopted a mostly-blue palette for the cloaks, again to help make them more easily distinguished from the other riders in what is most probably going to be a mostly "Heavy Cavalry" army.

These are pretty much all lance-only riders. 

They also have a swordsman on each base too - FiB are more than generous with command figures in their packs, such that I often end up with too many. 

That allows me to use the sword-armed guys to provide a little more unique (and easily seen) character to some of the units. 

Sarmatian Heavy Cavalry

 The next set of Sarmatians from my FiB painting marathon are these "Elite Heavy Cavalry" 

Using the visual key of "an armoured horse on each base", and all-metal armoured riders, this lot have 3 lanncers on every base as well so they can be identified as being primarily hard-charging Impact cavalry.   

In fact, not just "3 lancers", but "2 upright and one at 45 degrees" lancers!

Some of the FiB "cataphract" horses have edging to the armour that can be painted to give a bit of extra colour - like the guy bottom left of this photo. 

Whilst these are all armed with lance, you can see that some of the riders are sculpted with a bow and bowcase (and arrows) on their backs - so if I am using an all-mounted-shooting army they are still legitimate troops to drop on table as a discretely identifiable set of figures (ie in one command) 

This set of 4 bases all have a bowman on each base as well as 2 lancer figures.

The archers from FiB don't have armour, but these ones do have metal helmets so they can fit in with the "Heavy Cavalry" ethos of this little set of 12 guys perfectly well. 

Again, plenty of bow cases and arrows on their backs too. 

More to come soon..