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Seljuk Ghulams

The latest off my painting table is this unit of Seljuk Ghulams — the professional ‘slave soldiers’ of Alp Arslan’s army at Manzikert. These heavy horse archers would deliver volleys of arrows at their enemies and then, when the time was right, they would close in with swords and maces.

My Comitatus rules allow them to shoot two ranks deep at long range, the rear rank giving support in hand to hand combat when they close.


Should the circumstances not be to their liking they have the option to evade an enemy charge.

Although the men are not uniformed I have, as ever, attempted to give the unit a coherent look by limiting the colours I use. The predominant colour is green with red and yellow complimenting.


All the troops we need to replay Manzikert are now ready. The game will be on 18 August.

3 Komentar


petyboy123
22 Jul 2023

Those are very nice Simon- what manufacturer?

Suka
Simon MacDowall
Simon MacDowall
22 Jul 2023
Membalas kepada

Mostly Gripping Beast both plastics and metals. I think there may also be one or two Footsore as well

Suka

Richard Speedman
Richard Speedman
21 Jul 2023

I look forward to slaughtering these beautiful bowmen, or leading them to victory, depending on which side I end up playing 🙂

Suka
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