11/10/2024

DBA 2.2 Siracusans II/9 army.

The miniatures are from the range March to Hell from 3D Breed, and I quite like them because they are biffy, sharp, detailed and easy to paint. I have painted them with diluted paints but I feel they would be easier to paint with contrasts given the detail in them. 

There two minor complains about them though: they come without bases so glueing horses' narrow hooves to a base in quite tricky in 15mm; and also some figures are not too historic, but overall they are great as you can see below.

Siracusan II/9:  1x3Cv o 4Sp (Gen), 6x4Sp, 1x4Sp o 3Wb, 1x4Ax o 3Cv, 1x3/4Ax o Art, 1x2LH, 1x2Ps.

Eight Hoplite (Spear) bases in total, including general on foot (first on the left).

Slingers (Psilois), Peltasts (4Auxilia) and ballista (Art). The Artillery comes from a Roman army and the crew are Peltasts without javelins.

Two cavaly with general on white horse in the middle (he is wearing full hoplite gear) and one light horse.


Camp (Litoral) from Thingiverse. I am quite happy with how it turned out.

This army is for a campaign in the Mediterranean against my Polybian Roman and Gauls plus a Numidian army that I started painting today. Other friends from the group are building more Greeks, Persians, Macedonians and Carthaginians.

11/05/2024

DBA in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

Yes! After so many years, I have finally managed to form a small group of people interested in playing DBA. So far there are six of us and I hope someone else chime in later.

Here is a picture of three of them playing a evening of DBA in my house with three of my armies (Polybian Roman, Gauls and my recently painted Siracusans that I'll post in my blog as soon as I finish their camp). The fourth army we used was one already painted by one of the new recruits, Imperial Romans. The rest of them are already ordered or being printed.


Gauls vs Siracusans (1-4).


Republican vs Imperial Rome.