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Although normally a big fan of Crusader Miniatures, I found their Byzantine foot disappointing and oddly smaller than their other Dark Age ranges.
When I then got some of the GB figures they were a clear winner for me. So much more character.
Since then I notice Drabant Miniatures and V&V Miniatures have very nice growing Byzantine ranges although higher postage being outside the UK.
V&V look to be nice sculps but being resin would also put me off.
I believe the Byzantines used the oval shield until quite late so even into this period?
Really like the Aventine range so far. I suppose they are too early for what you want? Hopefully the range will soon expand into the later periods?
Just recently we had a battle between the Byzantines and the Sultanate of Rum. The army of the Byzantines is mainly Crusader and GB.Two reports from the game to see the figures in on the table:https://klingula.blogspot.com/2019/10/blog-post_25.htmlhttps://electricalkandeyka.blogspot.com/2019/10/blog-post.html
I use Magister Militum myself.
I popped over to your blog for a better view and it is a really lovely looking game If I was to be hyper critical I'd say that the i would have replaced the Gripping Beast Seljuk Turks with Perry Mini's Seljuk Heavy Cavalry , packs MA2, MA6-14 as the kontos was an anachronism by the time of Dyrrachium. Of course this is a very minor quibble- the game looks beautiful:)
Have you looked at the Old Glory Byzantines? They do different packs with different amounts of armor on guys for the foot, including peltastos with padded armor. I'm not a fan of their cav from this range.
The Crusader mounted are glorious, but I'm not sure how well they line up with the Komnenan period cav.
I wonder whether there is a way to make late Byzantine cav starting from the Aventine Steppe Nobles? I imagine the Byzantines should be a little more regular looking, and I don't know whether there are byzantine style heads that would go on those figs....