Hittite warriors.

This is my first finished hittite warriors unit for WAB.

Is a twenty men unit, equiped with thrusting spear, hand weapon and shield, and with no command group.

The miniatuers are from caesar miniatures, the only one company that make 1/72 plastic hittite miniatures. They are very nice minis, with an excellent quality.

I painted following osprey guides and some university and archeological books about Mesopotamia and the bronze and biblical ages.

The bases are from kallistra company and mars ultor, each one is 20mm front and 40mm side with two models/base. Are covering with sand and painted with browns and greys colours, as the mountain lands in Anatolia mountains where the hittitrs lived.

Next project for this unit is buy and paint a command group from New line designs.

Assyrians vs Egyptians.

From 740 to 627 Bc, Assyrian empire under kings as Tiglath Pilesser, Senaquerib, Salmanssar, or Asurbanipal rules Mesopotamia, and conquered Canaan, and Egypt.

They fought only one big battle, in egyptian border in Sinai.

The egyptian army were destroy.

Clash of chariots

The battle we played, is a fictional assyrian attack in canaan border.

We played, as usual, with WAB 2.0 rules, and with 20mm-1/72 models.

We used zvezda, caesar, atlantic, and new line designs models for this battle.

Clash of Chariots and cavalry

Egyptian line

The egyptian army were large and quickly, but poor armoured, the assyrians, were less people than the egyptians, but stronger and very well armoured.

This battle, was a very slow battle, where the egyptians attacks with all their chariotry the assyrian left wing, trying to involve, and fleeing the left wing from the assyrian cavalry in the right wing.

The Assyrian deploy were classical, with an strong battle line, to try to cut in the middle the egyptian army.

After four hours fighting, we decided, no one of them can break the other.

Usualy, the assyrian army is superior to egyptian army, but, the god of dices, was angry with assyrians, and the rest is history...

Miniatures from the collection of Jaime de Miguel.