Lambs to the Slaughter? Assyrians in Patras (Madaxeman)

[madaxeman]

The much-trailed Assyrian army has finally made it not only onto the table, but onto a plane, and into a 5-round competition in sunny (and rainy) Greece at the 2019 Patras Challenge.

The Winged Lion of Assyria takes on three very different Roman armies, a Classical Indian and finally the Han Chinese in a series of battles fitted carefully in between bouts of extreme eating and drinking across a swathe of the Patrene nightlife’s top venues.

Watch as the the newly minted chariots and infantry, supported by archer cavalry do their very best on a number of different playing surfaces to dodge between the cakes, biscuits and pieces of lamb which attempt to prove more problematic than their enemies

Even goats occasionally get a look in. And not just in their cooked variety!

Its all there in glorious sunshine, so roll up your Gyros, sizzle up some Spanakopita and chuck a halloumi slice on the bbq to enjoy these 5 consecutive reports !

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Great AAR’s as always, thanks!

[Rod Robertson]

Madaxeman:

I really like your Assyrians. Well done. Interesting battle reports. Thanks for posting them. You have inspired my 15mm Assyrians to take the field again either against the dreaded Elamites or the the wicked Neo-Babylonians. The last time they fought they won only a very Pyrrhic victory against a Skythian horde. That put me off them for about a year. So thanks for the kick-in-the-pants morale booster.

Cheers.

Rod Roberson.

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Nice armies. One of my pals has an unpainted Assyrian army awaiting his attention. I suspect that when (?) he gets it finished, it’ll eat my Bronze Age armies like they were a Greek salad (with extra olives).

 

donald

[madaxeman]

I must admit to being pleasantly surprised how well they turned out myself to be honest – Museum figures do tend to be easy to paint, and when I had the flash of inspiration to print out panels for the chariot walls (or more accurately a flash of realisation that I wasn’t a good enough painter to do it any other way and not make them look crap) it really spurred me on to build out the army properly

The page with all the painting on is here: https://www.madaxeman.com/main/Museum_Assyrians.php

 

 

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