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Title: Looking for Indian troops to fight Portuguese 1500’s-1600’s
Post by: irish marine on May 18, 2022, 01:23:27 AM

I want to build up units for games during the Portuguese occupation of Ceylon in 28mm.  I’ll be using Pikeman’s Lament rules, anyone know where I can find figures for the Indians?

Title: Re: Looking for Indian troops to fight Portuguese 1500’s-1600’s
Post by: bigredbat on May 18, 2022, 05:06:27 PM

There was a US company that made some minis from roughly that period- quite nice ones- but alas I can't recall the name.  Swordsmen, archers and armoured minis amongst them.

Title: Re: Looking for Indian troops to fight Portuguese 1500’s-1600’s
Post by: Inkpaduta on May 18, 2022, 05:08:42 PM

You could look at Indian Mutiny ranges. There are a number of rebels
that are armed with melee style weapons. Perhaps some of the Rajs troops
would work as well.

Title: Re: Looking for Indian troops to fight Portuguese 1500’s-1600’s
Post by: Goliad on May 18, 2022, 08:34:38 PM

I think Big Red Bat was referring to Indus Miniatures.

https://indusminiatures.mybigcommerce.com/ (https://indusminiatures.mybigcommerce.com/)

Not sure if they are still trading or not, however.

Title: Re: Looking for Indian troops to fight Portuguese 1500’s-1600’s
Post by: carlos marighela on May 19, 2022, 01:55:28 AM

Never knew Ireland had a marine corps! Learn something new every day.  ;)

Strictly speaking, you want Sinhalese figures for the Kingdom of Kandy. I'm unaware of any specific figures so I suspect the Hindu militia in the Indus range are your best bet as proxies.

Title: Re: Looking for Indian troops to fight Portuguese 1500’s-1600’s
Post by: irish marine on May 23, 2022, 11:33:04 PM

Thanks everyone.

Title: Re: Looking for Indian troops to fight Portuguese 1500’s-1600’s
Post by: Codsticker on May 24, 2022, 04:34:27 AM

Quote from: carlos marighela on May 19, 2022, 01:55:28 AM

... I suspect the Hindu militia in the Indus range are your best bet as proxies.

I have some of those and they are very nice figures.

 Since mercenaries seem to be a common factor of Indian armies of the time, would the Pindari and/or the Marathas also be appropriate?

Title: Re: Looking for Indian troops to fight Portuguese 1500’s-1600’s
Post by: irish marine on May 24, 2022, 01:31:08 PM

I contacted Old Glory but they don’t have any Indian troops either.  But I think at this point I just might use all of the figures from Indus and use some Muslim troops as well.