1204 AD - 1340 AD
DBA 2.2
Army Composition: (16 elements)
1 x (Gen) 3Cv, 2 x 3Cv, 2 x 3Kn, 2 x 2Lh, 1 x 4Sp or 2Ps, 3 x 2Ps or 3/4 Bw, 1 x 2Lh or 6Kn.
Historical Enemies: Serbian Empire, Later Bulgar, Romanian Frank, Palaiologan Byzantine, Albanian and Catalan Company.
Historical Notes: The Epirot Byzantines were thrashed by the Bulgar's, Serbian Empire and Albanians! ... more notes coming soon... :o)
I enjoyed painting up the 15mm Essex miniatures for this army, especially the 6Kn Caparisons (A caparison is a covering, or cloth, laid over a horse) ....anyway...A nice army to command and play with, it has a mixer of Heavy, Med and Light cavalry units along with good infantry support i.e. the 3 elements of foot archers (Bw) should be placed on one flank or both to shoot at enemy Light Horse. The Knights are the main punching force, usually Knights are deployed in the center supported with it's General and other cavalry units and during the opening stages of the battle/game move forward and charge as soon as possible at the enemy! ;oP
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| Army Arrayed |
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| General (3Cv) |
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| Epirot Heavy Cavalry (3Kn) |
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| Epirot Line Cavalry (3Cv) |
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| Frankish or German Mercenary Knights (6Kn) |
The 6Kn should be based on one 40mm x 60mm base to
represent a "wedge formation" I decided to mount these figures on
single bases 40mm x 30mm to be used in other armies if needed.
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| Light Horse (2Lh) |
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| Albanian Mercenaries (2Lh) |
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| Epirot Heavy Infantry (4Sp) |
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| Regular Epirot Foot Archers (4Bw) |
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| Albanian Mercenaries Skirmishers (2Ps) |
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| other skirmishers (2Ps) |
Great bit of painting and basing Phil, especially the German knights
ReplyDeleteThanks Chris, yeah I had fun painting the German Mercenary Knights even though the Caparisons are probably non-historical.... but look ok to me :o)
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Stunning work as always, Phil! Very nice work on the shields and lances. Best, Dean
ReplyDeleteThanks Dean much appreciated... shield painting was fun and easy to do.. I must say :o) all the best.
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Fantastic, this is tops! It's impossible to pick a favorite with so many lovely armies of late. If pressed, I might choose these fellows.
ReplyDeleteIt would be a blast to unleash the lovely German knights. First I have to brush up on some German insults for the tabletop. ;-)
:o) Thanks Monty, I thought you wrote that your favorite DBA army from my collection are the Georgians? anyway, the Epirot Byzantines are a good solid hard hitting punching cavalry army. One day hope to match up/play against the Serbian Empire Army and her Knights....
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Yet another very fine looking army!
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Thanks Christopher much appreciated! :o)
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Another lovely DBA army Phil, the knights are particularly impressive!
ReplyDeleteThanks Mike, I do have two DBA Medieval German Armies to paint up at some stage during the year....
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Here we go, back to the 15mm DBA armies and what a return! Really, this is may favorite thus far. I have said that before, haven't I?
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hehehe.... yeah I know Jonathan, yet another DBA army, switching centuries back and forth..I really have to stop travelling with Dr. Who time machine... :o)
Deletewaiting for my pikes to arrive to work on 28mm Italian Wars - Italian Pikemen...
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Great looking army! The Albanian LH strongly resmble the Stradiots of the Italian Wars era, which is hardly surprising that both came from the same gebneral geographic rergion.
ReplyDeleteThanks Pete, yeah the Albanian Light Horse does resemble the Stradiot Cavalry of the Italian Wars period, most Light Horse mercenaries (Stradiot Cavalry) came from the Balkans during the Italian Wars.
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