Here some Carthaginian soldiers (hat industry): mainly elephants (African); some (light) Numidian horsemen and "allied" troops: Celtiberes, Lusitanians, Celts, Italics...

An another picture..

Diocletien thank you for sharing these photos with us. I hope other forum participants will join this process.

Yes, thanks for sharing :)

Also, if I may add, I love that you've done the shield patterns yourself :)

Salut Pablo.

Je pense que tu gagnerais en qualité de peinture, à passer à l'acrylique.

Tes figurines sont peintes, elles sont là, elles existes et c'est très bien. Tu leur as donner la vie par ta peinture, bravo.

Merci à Brist et autres commentateurs pour avoir regardé et les conseils.
L'acrylique,oui pourquoi pas ?
A l'occasion.
Oui elles sont là , ces figurines, peintes (très moyennement) ces puniques,ces Celtes et Celtiberes elles m'accompagnent et aussi elles témoignent de leur histoire (incroyable).

Me permets de publier sur ce Forum une superbe image/photo de phalangites carthaginois (guerres puniques) trouvée sur Facebook...
Superbe reconstitution !
Peut inspirer certains ici.

Les boucliers sont splendides, quoique qu'un peu compliqué à reproduire au 1/72.

I notice great historical accuracy in both the armor and the shields.
It could inspire Linear-A to give us a set with the famous Carthaginian Veterans.

I always thought that the "Carthaginian Veterans" were different from "Veterans of Hannibal". The distinction being that in one case you need to be a Carthaginian citizen to be part of that group, and the other just having fought for Hannibal. The reason I bring this up is that some of the re-enactors above have breast discs. These are more commonly attributed to Italics, rather than Carthaginians.

So, when referring the "Carthaginian Veterans" are they then just really not all Carthaginian?

Hi Claus, since yesterday I've been waiting for you to talk a little about history. Well your reasoning confused me a bit. Hannibal in 218 B.C,. he crossed the Alps with 50,000 infantry, 9,000 cavalry and 37 elephants. From 218 B.C. until 216 B.C. defeated the Romans in various battles culminating in the Battle of Cannae in Apulia (216 B.C.). In 204 B.C. the Romans land in Africa and Hannibal is forced to return to Carthage. In 202 B.C. in the battle of Zama the Romans defeated the Carthaginians. The only reference we have to the Carthaginian Veterans is at the battle of Zama. These veterans come from Hannibal's campaign in Italy and are equipped with Roman armor.
Therefore the Veterans of Hannibal are identified with the Carthaginian Veterans. I also consider it self-evident that their weaponry would not be exclusively Roman but a combination of the two cultures.

Ah yes, in that context you are correct. :) I know a disc-breastplate has been found in the Carthage "area", and has been ascribed to be Bruttian. Quite a lot of Bruttians followed Hannibal to Carthage and fought at Zama.

It would be nice to have Carthaginian troops of Hannibal's time logically following LINEAR-A first production.
These pictures are looking good. If they are Hannibal's troops Please let's do them in CQB lively poses.

Ce serait bien d'avoir des troupes cathaginoises d'Hannibal dans la lignée des premiers sets de LINEAR-A. Ces photos sont très bien. Si ces troupes sont bien celles d'Hannibal faites les s'il vous plaît dans des poses de combats rapproché bien vivantes.
Regards
Patrice K

hello,
I looked carefully at the photos and I see precisely only one single soldier on the left with a circular pectoral.
The analysis of Cernief according to which Brutians fought in Hannibal's army in Italy then in Zama (North Africa) is very interesting, except that according to the text of the photo these soldiers these Carthaginian infantrymen were engaged in the battle of the Metaur.
The punic army was commanded by Hasdrubal, the brother of Hannibal and she came from the north of Italy.
The Bruttian people lived in the south of Italy.
So they cannot be part of the Hasdrubal's army.
VApparently this army was composed by Carthaginians, Numidians, Hispanics and Gauls rallied in north of Italy.
The battle of the metaur takes place in the north of Italy - the March region - near the Ombria and the Etruria (in the west).
So this soldier with a circular pectoral cannot be a Bruttien.
I did some quick research about the Umbrian and Etruscan warriors and their défensives armement.
I found nothing about the weaponery of Umbrians (pectoral) but it seems that the Etrusques used a rectangular pectoral and the Samnites - not very far from this region - used the famous pectoral with three discs.
The only possibility would be that this soldier was an Umbrian warrior or a Carthaginian warrior with an Umbrian equipment but as I haven't found any information on their defensive equipment (pectoral)...Difficult to say.
So this soldier from Hasdrubal's army with a circular pectoral seems to be an anomaly a mistake. It is very strange.
We can see that the other infantrymen are all wearing the linothorax armor.
Afterward I think that especially at this era it is impossible to make generalizations about thex military equipment but it is sure that this soldier on the left side on thecphoto cannot be a Bruttien or a Carthaginian infantryman with a Bruttian equipment (circular pectoral) ....

If anyone on the forum has any information or photo on the equipment of the Umbrian militarumy equipment, I am very interested..

Zitat von cernief im Beitrag #13

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Ah yes, in that context you are correct. :) I know a disc-breastplate has been found in the Carthage "area", and has been ascribed to be Bruttian. Quite a lot of Bruttians followed Hannibal to Carthage and fought at Zama.

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