Peoples of the Sea

[Ochoin]

I began painting Sea Peoples some years ago.
They've provided a few useful units for any of my 3 Bronze Age armies - NKE, Hittite, Mycenaeans.

However, I'm thinking they'd be a great 4th power in their own right.
Whilst not yet a viable army, I've been adding to them:

3 Warbands, a unit of skirmishers, a ox cart unit ("war Wagons") & command.


I've added some scratch-built ox carts & see them as the slow-moving, high defence equivalent of chariots.


Shekelesh, Danyan, Shardana & Pelest - the force has a mixture of tribes.


The core are warband units. I've been trying them out against NKE to see how they fare & the answer is : not great.

If they can get into melee, they're excellent but slow & largely lacking missile troops, the Egyptian chariots run rings around them & shoot them to pieces.
They really need archer units. Which is a problem as no-one makes them in this scale (1/72).

So, maybe doomed to be Allies?

donald

[MABO]

Nice start in the new year. I really like playing with armies from that period. And the Sea People are very colorful and come with an interesting mix of units. Well made until now. Let the archers come!

[Michael Robert]

Hello Donald,
I like your army of sea people. The nice or complicated issue with antic armies si that not enough is known. So you can interprete or interpolate as you want. Sometimes it's frustrating because you want to make them particular.
The ox-cart idea looks really nice, although I have the issue that without the element of speed I do not see so much military value. Make an ox-cart fortress? Maybe
Greetings
Michael

[elegantmess]

Maybe slingers?

[PhilC]

Nice warband! The ox cart is a must, at least as a baggage element for DBA!

[steve_pickstock]

Superb! Chapeau, sir.

I love a Bronze age army and that is a good one. Perhaps some of the Caesar Trojan slingers would do for a bit of long range fire-power.

BTW are you aware of this guy? https://www.hellenicarmors.gr/?fbclid=I ... hYbXt9Zs7c

He does some early armours as well, and as far as I can tell he does a good job of them Too

[Chariobaude]

i love your chariots ! in fact i think DBA is lacking diversity for many armies, so it is always a pleasure to see "exotic" ones