Atlanteans in Hythoria Marshal Their Forces

[Alfrik]

In addition to the Temple Guards, I took the time to go thru endless boxes and have rushed the Atlantean Troops discovered to the training field for a group shot:


http://armoredink.blogspot.com/2010/03/atlanteans-marshal-their-forces.html

Ill try to update soon with a shot of the Unpainted forces that are about to go thru a Paint day... or 2.

All figures are from the Petal Throne line from back... uh... years and years ago

[Red Orc]

Oh, Alfrik, they're excellent! Great for the city militia and elements of the Temple Guard too.

Slingers in kilts as well, I've been on about slingers in kilts almost since the first day; but no-one's provided any yet. 'My research' (  ) says that about 10 or 20% of Atlantean city militia are slingers (in kilts...), along with bow-armed and spear-armed troops.

There does seem to be a unit at the back somewhere who are still waiting for the quatermaster to issue their javelins though... I imagine something like: "Right! Some great eejit forgot to requesition the javelins, until they arrive I want you all to pretend that ... wait for it... pretend that you 'ave a javelin, and shout 'one, two, throw, four, five, six, splat!'. And let me tell you orrible lot right now, the bearded white man's thunderstick has no stopping power against the kilt!"

[Skrapwelder]

Good to see the monstrous hordes didn't get them out there in Shedland. These have always been some of my absolute favorite mini's.

[Alfrik]

Unpainted Atlaneteans outnumber the painted ones... going to get that head count done and start in a couple hours to see how many more I can get done before the weekend.

Counted them up just a bit ago:

Painted Bow       6       Painted Slingers     12            Painted Infantry   84
Unpainted Bow  42      Unpainted Slings     12           Unpainted Infantry 86

(Misc 8 Ahogga, 12 Pachi-le, 2 old style Shen I think they are.) Figuring that Infantry units will be 24 strong to have a chance to come to blows after couple rounds of rifle fire.

[ushistoryprof]

"Empire of the Petal Throne", man does that take me back (close to 40 years) one of the early games I tried-complex and strange if memory serves me correctly

[HerbyF]

Yes I too have a bunch of them colecting dust somewhere. Both painted & unpainted. Hey Red Orc do you have anybody signed up for the campaign in the Seattle/Tacoma area? I think I could provide a reasonable Atlantean force.

[Fuzzywuzzieswiflasers]

Eureka miniatures make a armies and enemies of the petal throne range that I thought would be perfect for high atlanteans.

I have never seen those minis before, quite unusual.

Cheers

Fuzzy

[Red Orc]

... Hey Red Orc do you have anybody signed up for the campaign in the Seattle/Tacoma area? I think I could provide a reasonable Atlantean force.

I'm not sure I do to be honest HerbyF, Alfrik and Skrapwelder are in California and I think that's as close to you as anyone involved in the campaign... and I realise that's a really long way, like me going 'is anyone near me?' and someone saying 'yeah, there's some guys in Madrid...'.

Is there no-one else you can persude to join you for a couple games? If you can find any ruleset that you like using, that will balance a 'horde' of lightly armed and armoured troops against something a bit more modern, then you can at the very least fight a two-army series of battles (that's a campaign, right?) between some moderns invading Atlantis and some defenders.

Some possible matchups would be perhaps use ACW troops against Atlanteans,  but with the profiles of British v Zulus in the Zulu wars; or perhaps the American/Indian Wars of the late C19th would work as a basis. I'd think most rules for the period should have a way of pitting a small 'techy' army against 'natives'.

Have a think - I'm sure there are possibilities I won't be able to consider that you could use - and get back to me if it seems do-able. I'm only a PM away... and you were one of the people that was definitely up for the campaign back in the Autumn, so it would be good to have you on board.

[Skrapwelder]

Yes I too have a bunch of them colecting dust somewhere. Both painted & unpainted. Hey Red Orc do you have anybody signed up for the campaign in the Seattle/Tacoma area? I think I could provide a reasonable Atlantean force.

I believe that fine fellow Sinewgrab is in the Portland, OR area. A bit closer than Sacramento.

[Mors]

When Atlanteans was first mooted for the campaign my first thought was Petal Throne would do the trick, I would love to do a force in them , the ones you have are quite rare of course but the Eureka range has some interesting looking figures in it , I wonder how they match up with the old range scale wise?. Sadly I dont think I can allocate the time or finance for it but you have over 200 so a nice size force. Dont forget get to post plenty of pics as you progress.

Mors

[Alfrik]

Checked stock of the enamel red paint that I used for the laqured armor..... well its off to the hobby shop today as what I have is not paint anylonger.. heh, go figure that I still had the paint bottle from 1977....

[Alfrik]

Ok here's what is in the painting pipe line:


needless to say, just a bit of work ahead...

[ushistoryprof]

Checked stock of the enamel red paint that I used for the laqured armor..... well its off to the hobby shop today as what I have is not paint anylonger.. heh, go figure that I still had the paint bottle from 1977....

I know what you mean all those old bottle of paint hanging around, but wait they got old but we surely didn't- go figure.