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Blogger Millsy said...

They are quite wonderful mate. Such a shame they will be gone from the table so quickly!

1 March 2021 at 06:15

Blogger BigRedBat said...

I shall call them the "Twenty Minuters" after that Blackadder episode. :-)

1 March 2021 at 10:18

Blogger JeffJ said...

Incredibly impressive display as always. Are these for Ipsus or Magnesia?
My troops are shaking in their boots over how wide a gap they have to form!

1 March 2021 at 19:22

Blogger BigRedBat said...

Ipsus Jeff. :-) it'll be my biggest game by a fair margin.

1 March 2021 at 20:20

Blogger JeffJ said...

I can believe that if there is that many Scythed Chariots!

2 March 2021 at 00:08

Blogger Gonsalvo said...

Impressive and awe-inspiring, if fragile elements!

2 March 2021 at 12:58

Blogger Friends Of General Haig said...

Those chariots looks superb! It would almost be an honour to be run down by them 😆

3 March 2021 at 22:39

Blogger caveadsum1471 said...

Splendid looking scythed chariots, it's as if someone said I have a cunning plan...!
Best Iain

4 March 2021 at 15:45

Blogger ICM said...

Simon, these are gorgeous. Have we yet, however, found an example where they were not completely useless? They can't simply have been a rubbish status symbol for hundreds of years, like elephants? Mind you, I'm currently finishing off my Sumerian onager chariots with solid tree-trunk wheels; who am I to talk?

4 March 2021 at 21:29

Blogger Gonsalvo said...

Attack of the Veg-o-matics! :-)

5 March 2021 at 01:43

Blogger Bluewillow said...

They look splendid!

cheers
Matt

12 March 2021 at 19:29

Blogger Prufrock said...

Brilliant models, BRB!

19 March 2021 at 10:29

Blogger BigRedBat said...

Thanks chaps! There was one reported battle and one skirmish where they did well, there may well have been others, now forgotten. I suspect that, Like elephants, they may have done well in the first engagement in a campaign, before suitable counter-measures were developed.

19 March 2021 at 10:35

Blogger JeffJ said...

The three major times where scythed chariots did well were under Cyrus the Great in his Persian conquest against Babylonians, and Lydians. The Persian Satraps defeated a Spartan force at Dascylium in 395 BC. The two scythed chariots were launched against foragers that were rushing to form up when bushwhacked by the Persians. Cavalry followed up the scythed chariots and the foraging troops were cut up fairly well but fell back to the hoplite line which stopped any further action. Outcome had no effect on the campaign.

At the start of the War with Mithridates Roman allies from Bithynia invaded Pontic turf. It appears while marching and attempting to form up the Pontic army caught the Bithynian forces strung out. The scythed chariots found the columns an appealing and undisciplined target and the initial rout carried off the whole Bithynian force.

That was the extent of success for the recorded Pontic chariots as later on the real Roman legions simply laughed at their comical ineptitude.

Makes it hard for a gamer though. These models are not cheap, they are fragile, need special handling, and are ineffective. All good reasons to have three of them :)

19 March 2021 at 19:26

Blogger ICM said...

As the proud possessor of (I think) 14 28mm elephants (metal, plastic, resin, tower, no tower, no riders etc) and 15 HaT Sumerian really useless donkey chariots, I know I'm not on a Miller scale. However, I think I'm entitled to express the view that they are all rubbish. But I love them and would not give them up for anything. My dear but deluded wife wants me to get even more elephants; I must resist. I have to paint up some actually useful units, or indeed get a life.

28 March 2021 at 20:28

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