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Hellenistic Spartan commision - 15mm Hellenistic Greek or Macedonian successors



 Following on from seeing the successful Spartan commission, Roger, whom I did the Cathars for, asked me to do a Helleistic Spartan force in 15mm Xyston (that will also double as Ptolemaic and Asiatic or other Alexandrian successor state), and spears from Museum Miniatures Range 'Z'.

Pike unit 1 (the guard) and three units of spear armed hoplites plus generals to finish of this commission.

The no 1 pikes


Simple, but heavy


Perfect ranks, unlike 8 & 9!


Onwards


Players eye view


Generals


Top view


Side on


Back view to show the generals


Spears 1


It's a big mass


I do like the way they rank up


Spears 2 - marines?


Had to pick the sheilds nicely


Off they go


Charge!


Spears 3 - Spartan spears


I REALLY REALLY love this shot!


Mean and moody


More nudity than...


Just so you can see the back and shields


Big mass

 There are at least 9 units of pikes to do, plus a lot of extras, so I started with the middle units of his army list, pike blocks 4, 5, 6, & 7, now I've moved onto 2,3, 8 &9

Roger will do his own basing, later.

Units 2,3 and 8 & 9 finished.
2 and 3 are decent elite units, 8 band 9 are freed or armed slaves, which is never the best idea for well drilled troops, more on that later.

2 and 3


Serried ranks


Nice and regular


Looking impressive


Back view showing uniforms being nice and regular


Units 8 & 9


Yes, they are that disorganised


Poor rating? Why am I even asking!


Pikes all-a-tangle


If you look carefully, some are even facing the wrong way


Good luck standing behind them!


Not good at all


Unit 4 a regular unit


Shields all the same, nice and regular like


Side on


Back view


Off they go


Unit 5 - slightly less regular shields and irregular piping on the armour


They're going to, who knows where?


Side on


Back view to show the piping


Unit 6 - 50% regular shields


Looking pretty fine


Advancing


Mixed piping and much lower quality armour


They're going too... to Blackpool!


Unit 7 - really mixed shields, bad armour and bad drill and a few ex-slaves


Whatever shield they could find really...


Just about a unit


The whole batch of 128(k),


They look like a real taxis here;


So many they fill my lightbox and spill over!
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