DBA II/69 Sassanid Persians

SSSSAAASSS SSSSAAAASSSS SSSAAAAAssssssssaaaaaaannniiiiiiiid Persians....!!!

Oh.. What a cool name! My favourite DBA Army, lots of Cavalry, Knights, Elephants, Horrible Hordes, nice & colourful as well. The match of mighty Rome for many a year, but in end victim to the explosion of Islam & the Arab Conquest Armies.

We've had these fellas for a long time, but recently we changed the banners. Here they are, made by our good selves as there's not a lot of 15mm Banners out there!!!
http://mrfarrow2udba.blogspot.com/2008/04/sassanid-persian-banners.html

In our games the Sassanids have always performed well.

II/69 Sassanid Persian 220 - 651AD
1x3Cv(Gen), 1x4Kn or 3Cv, 4x3Cv, 1x2Lh, 1xEl or 3Cv,
1x3Ax or 3Cv, 2x7Hd, 1x2Ps

Sassanids all options, Ancient Temple camp in the background






Close up on the Sassanid King


Sassanid King, based this fella on Shapur II, it's a converted Museum Mini.


Sassanid Jumbo, with OUR lovely banner trailing from the side.






Ahaaa! The fearsome Persian Cataphract & Clibanarii (Knight & Cavalry)


Da Da Da.... Da Da DAAAA...! The fearless.. Persian Hordes!


Sassanid Auxillia & Psiloi

DBA Late Roman vs Late Visigoths

DBA Battle time, Late Romans versus Late Visigoths. Standard rules & setup, Jack being the Barbaric Visigoths would be the attacker. I placed a Wood, a Marsh & a Hill.

II/78 Late Imperial Romans (a)Western 307 - 425AD
1x3 Cv(Gen), 1x3Cv, 2x2Lh, 2x4Bd, 3x4Ax, 2x2Ps, 1x3Kn

II/82 Later Visigothic (a)419 - 621AD
1x3Kn(Gen), 3x3Cv, 4x4Wb, 2x2Ps, 2x2Bw

The Setup, Jacks Visigoths on the left


Visigoth Chieftain Jack (with suitable Barbaric hairstyle) looks on


Amy inspects the Roman deployment


Nice view of the Romans, camp by Baueda


Visigoth Cavalry


Visigoth Boyz, Warband & Archers


The Romans advance, Measurement sticks at the ready!


Jacks Visigoths smell blood!


Jacks right flank, his General & Cavalry support the Psiloi


BOOOM!! our little piece of Western Europe is rocked by an earthquake......
Weimaraner Seismic activity!!! Two large grey paws descend & Krazy Harvey wants to join in.
He must have an urge to help his Germanic Brethren! A timeout is called & after ten minutes of Harvey stroking he leaves, Jack quickly fixes the damage to the table.


Back to the action.... The lines advance.


Roman Psiloi secure the woods


Jack moves his General to a central position


Nice view of the Barbarians.


Roman Cavalry & Auxilia watch the Visigoths


Hun Light Horse attack a lone Visigoth Cavalry element


The lines clash, but Jack manages to draw off my Roman Cavalry.
The Roman Knights charge in against.....Bows (Aaaarrrgghh!)
Plus there's some Blade vs Warband match ups. I fear the worst(shaking head).


Yes!! Jack laughs out loud, combats go his way... I'm not a happy bunny.


Its quick & brutal, two rounds of combat & the Visigoths win 4 to 2.
The Romans lose 2 Blades, a Knight & a Auxilia.


Jacks back to winning ways. I curse my (in hindsight) poor setup.
This was the first game of the night, I would get my revenge in the next game ...Samurai Scrap!

DBA IV/59(b) Post Mongol Samurai

Here's our DBA Samurai Army. We initially bought a small army from EBay & then just
kept adding bits onto it. These fellas have back banners from the brilliant Warflag site
http://www.warflag.com/flags/sam/samurait.shtml

Mind you, if there's one job that is completely soul destroying, then it's attaching loads of
back banners zzzzzzz... We had a Samurai battle the other week & it looked pretty good.
Battle report to follow shortly.

DBA IV/59(b) Post Mongol Samurai 1300-1542AD
1x3Cv or 4Bd(Gen), 1x3Cv, 5x4Bd, 1x3Sp, 4x5Wb or 4x7Hd or 4x3Sp

Samurai Army




The Samurai Lord, Cavalry or Blade General


Cavalry


Samurai Warriors on foot, Blade elements


Ashigaru, Spear element


More Ashigaru, Spear option. Peasants as the Warband/Horde options.


Up close & nasty to those revolting peasants


Samurai Bamboo Camp, guarded by Ashigaru Spear element

DBA IV/18 Lithuanian

An opponent for the Teutonic Knights in the Baltic Crusades.
Half of these figures are Mikes Models! The rest I can't say.

DBA IV/18 Lithuanian or Samogitian 1132 -1435AD
1x3Cv or 2Lh(Gen), 1x3Cv or 2Lh, 6 x2Lh, 2x3Ax, 2x2Ps

Lithuanians!




Lithuanian Light Horse


Lithuaninan General , Cavalry Elements


Psiloi


Auxillia Elements