Arab Cavalry Ride Out of Gripping Beast At Salute
March 13, 2015 by dracs
At this year's Salute, Gripping Beast are bringing out new plastic sets of Arab Light and Heavy Cavalry. They recently received the tests for the light cavalry and decided to build a pair to show off.
These are a pair of beautiful plastics and go to show some of the great variations available in this new set.
Light cavalry like these are very useful in game terms, easily able to outflank the enemy and harass them with arrows or engage in hit and run attacks to take out the enemy's more vulnerable units.
If you're at Salute, think you will stop by Gripping Beast to check these out?
"These are a pair of beautiful plastics and go to show some of the great variations available in this new set"
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Very nice. What period are these for? They’ve got a Napoleonic look to them.
They do Napoleonic now you mention it. haha 🙂 Maybe Ottoman allies?
Good call :-). I think you’re right.
That is very nice.
Sploosh! Just what I need, Mamluk cavalry for my Ottomans, between these, my Sipahi Lancers and my Nizam-i-cedid Dragoons I’ll have a hell of a cavalry force…
Oooh. That Perry or Footsore Saracen pipedream has just become a Perry or Footsore or Girppiing Beast Saracen pipedream.
You could probably use them for the Napoleon era, but they’re really aimed for the crusades era complementing the Gripping Beast’s earlier plastic Arab infantry.
These are for 11th – 15th Century. I’ll be adding them to my Arabs for Lion Rampart…. Need to paint the plastic infantry I have first!
That fellow in the fez looks a bit too modern for 11th to 15th C., but Muslim garb at that time is really not my area of expertise. The plastic infantry looked great in the pics. How’s the real thing?
plastic infantry are pretty damn good, converted a box into Arab levies for my Napoleonics (plenty of spare muskets around hehe) was very impressed, even if the hands looked a tad small in comparison to the heads… The coat on the fella with the fez by my reckoning looks like late 14th/15th century, very archetypal of a number of contemporary ottoman drawings I’ve seen. The style carries through, only the Ottomans especially really went hell for leather when it came to the gaudiness of the uniforms in later periods, particularly when the majority of their forces had to provide their… Read more »
Thanks for the review @bigdave . I’ll put a few boxes on my shopping list. Hmmm… How would they look with AK’s and RPG -7’s in their hands? Think they would work for modern as well?
Also, thanks for the info @robert . I wasn’t doubting you 😉
be a tad tricky that – one thing I noticed is that the bodies are very, very broad, broad enough that the musket-armed troops had to carry them on the slope. They don’t look bad but it did severely limit my options for them… could trim them down being plastic but tbh, I really CBA with the hassle of it at the time… Use mine as Arab levies from Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign, mix of muskets, pikes and swords. Nothing like a nice big blob of musket fodder while my fragile regular battalions pour on the fire hehe
I’m going by what Gripping Beast said on Facebook 🙂
lovely kits, shock horror but the only one I haven’t had any experience with yet is the vikings…