Spring Clean Challenge Sassanids Revived
Arab Allies
Two units of Arab allies are done. Some slingers and camel archers. The camel are great for disrupting enemy cavalry and have the added bonus of ensuring my cavalry are ‘used to’ camels.
First the slingers, Footsore miniatures with a couple of plastic Perry Mahdists who have borrowed a couple of sling arms from the Warlord plastic Caesarean Romans.
Matal shields with a hide pattern painted using Gerry’s sponging technique to look a bit like goat hide. Helps to give an irregular feel to the Arabs and differentiates them from the highly decorated shields carried by the Persians.
These camel archers are very well researched and look exactly how I imagine the pre-Islamic arab tribal auxilliaries might have looked. Relic Miniatures from Canada. Took a while to get here given worldwide postal disruptions but well worth it. They are true scale 28mm which means proportions are accurate so they look a bit smaller and slighter than their colleagues but mounted on the camels this is hard to spot and doesn’t cause me any concerns.
Same shields as the slingers, this time tied to the side of the saddle, help to link the units together visually.
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