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Author Topic: Atlanteans in Hythoria Marshal Their Forces  (Read 3980 times)

Offline Alfrik

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Atlanteans in Hythoria Marshal Their Forces
« on: March 03, 2010, 08:37:59 PM »
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 :)
« Last Edit: March 04, 2010, 04:01:49 PM by Alfrik »
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Re: Atlanteans in Hythoria Marshal Their Forces
« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2010, 08:51:08 PM »
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!"

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Re: Atlanteans in Hythoria Marshal Their Forces
« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2010, 09:23:36 PM »
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.

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Re: Atlanteans in Hythoria Marshal Their Forces
« Reply #3 on: March 03, 2010, 10:44:45 PM »
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.
« Last Edit: March 04, 2010, 12:03:42 AM by Alfrik »

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Re: Atlanteans in Hythoria Marshal Their Forces
« Reply #4 on: March 04, 2010, 12:04:54 AM »
"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

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Re: Atlanteans in Hythoria Marshal Their Forces
« Reply #5 on: March 04, 2010, 10:26:31 AM »
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.
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Re: Atlanteans in Hythoria Marshal Their Forces
« Reply #6 on: March 04, 2010, 11:47:40 AM »
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.

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Re: Atlanteans in Hythoria Marshal Their Forces
« Reply #7 on: March 04, 2010, 01:24:51 PM »
... 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.

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Re: Atlanteans in Hythoria Marshal Their Forces
« Reply #8 on: March 04, 2010, 02:49:10 PM »
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.

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Re: Atlanteans in Hythoria Marshal Their Forces
« Reply #9 on: March 04, 2010, 03:36:26 PM »
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.

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Re: Atlanteans in Hythoria Marshal Their Forces
« Reply #10 on: March 04, 2010, 04:11:55 PM »
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.... lol

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Re: Atlanteans in Hythoria Marshal Their Forces
« Reply #11 on: March 04, 2010, 05:24:41 PM »
Ok here's what is in the painting pipe line:


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

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Re: Atlanteans in Hythoria Marshal Their Forces
« Reply #12 on: March 04, 2010, 05:56:17 PM »
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.... lol
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.

 

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