Hmm, these are Essex Miniatures and I am quite attracted to these. I’m leaning towards the paint side of paint or sell, although I expect that they will remain in the lead pile for quite some time. The Successors are at least in that Classical Period I like and are at least not Roman (although I will get to the Romans later).
The army is also about 400AP in DBMM terms and consists of:
| Essex Miniatures | |||||
| No | Code | Description | Infantry | Cavalry | Elephants |
| 3 | MPA1 | Macedonian, Greek Command | 9 | ||
| 1 | MPA3 | Thracian Peltast rhomphaia | 8 | ||
| 1 | MPA4 | Thrancian Peltast Javelin | 8 | ||
| 2 | MPA21 | Cretan Archers | 16 | ||
| 6 | MPA83 | Seleucid Phalangites | 48 | ||
| 4 | MPA84 | Seleucid Agyraspids | 32 | ||
| 1 | MPA86 | Companion Cavalry | 4 | ||
| 1 | MPA86A | Companion Extra Heavy Cavalry | 4 | ||
| 1 | MEPA90 | Elephant mahout pike archer javelin howdah | 1 | ||
| 1 | MEPA91 | Elephant mahout 3 archers howdah | 1 | ||
| 3 | MPA92 | Arab Archers | 24 | ||
| 1 | MPA94 | Arab camel archers | 4 | ||
| 2 | MPA95 | Thorakitai | 16 | ||
| 3 | MPA97 | Heavy cavalry lance | 12 | ||
| 3 | MPA97A | Extra heavy cavalry lance | 12 | ||
| 2 | MPA98 | Tarantine cavalry | 8 | ||
| Total | 152 | 53 | 2 | ||
Some of Essex’s nicer figures, a very competitive army under most rule-sets, plenty of toys, (elephants, camels, cataphracts) – what’s not to like. Plus, pretty much all unformed, so again, quick to paint on the old black undercoat.. You know you want to paint them…
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