Quand les frontières culturelles "tombent" de part et d'autre , ce n'est pas forcément un bon signe pour la puissance établie..
Après, a propos des Goths , et notamment des Ostrogoth auxquels il faut ajouter les Gépides, on peut sûrement a coup sûr souligner aussi l' influence des Peuples des steppes (Huns) auxquelles une grande partie d'entre ont été soumis après l'effondrement de leur "royaume" en Ukraine...
D'où leur cavalerie initiale et de valeur en particulier a la bataille d'Andrinople (?).

Just a little surprised by the title of the set.
It is legend.
I believe that actually we have very few informations about the Sacred Legion.
It's been said, for example, that this unit was composed of 150 pairs of lovers.
Three hundred fighters for even an elite unit - a Spartan mora is equivalent to 640 hoplites - is still quite small considering the sometimes decisive role it played the victories of Thebes.
What interested me the most is that its recruits according to my researchs often came from very poor backgrounds.
The city of Thebes provided to these courageous men a rigorous training from a very young age, opportunities for social advancement, and dignity in return... for the ultimate sacrifice: the price of blood.

Impressive !!
All that's missing... is the Minotaur.
But I think that Theseus had already been there...

For the Byzantine cavalry, you have already the 6 Red Box sets : light cavalry/cataphracts and clibanaries...which are quite successful.
While waiting for the Best with Linear...

Nice !!
Very old figurines of Strelets ..

...apart Set of Illyrians,
I would like to see many sets of the Thirty Years' War : one of the first "global "conflict in Europe.

Abgesehen von den Illyren , ich möchte gern viele Sets des Dreißigjährigen Krieges in Europa produziert sehen.
Ein "weltweiter" Konflikt..

Hello,
To answer to the asked question...
...many of those (Figurensets) who have been already announced for some time .
As the old Babylonians (Amorrites?), the Gutian, the Urarturian or the Lydian ...soldiers . Not civils .
Producing a set of Cilician pirates is not a very bad idea and can be explained by the previous choices of Linear A : Cilician pirates, armies of Pompey , Crassus, Cesar...all these sets are from the same period.
However in the field of piracy I would have largely preferred for example a set of Illyrian "pirates".
This theme is more original, rare and these offered to the Romans a resistance superior to 59 days !!!

Three wars in total with some very interesting characters ( The queen Teuta/Demetrios etc ..) and above all the composition/ equipment (the helmets !!) /outfits for the Illyrian troops that are to my opinion very more interesting too...
A more important contribution as well of the unknown and undervalued Illyrians to history .
A regret .

Hello Stéphane !!
The elephants look very good.
Curiously, the crossing of the Alps by Hannibal's brother, Hasdrubal - defeated at the Battle of Metaurus where he is said he have lined up several elephants - is much less celebrated.
It is true that it was in spring and not in winter. Sothe Hannibal's crossing therefore appears more glorious.
The law of first times...
And the prestige attached to Hannibal's military genius.

Magnifique travail !

Hello Stéphane,
Oui effectivement .
Les hip..hip..hip...Hourrites !!
Joli travail surtout avec le mix bronze et fer pour les équipements défensifs (cuirassés/casques).
Quant aux armes, apparemment exclusivement en bronze .

Surprisingly ...I feel like I have already seen these very beautiful figurines somewhere above...

The Fortress is very impressive...
Unfortunately, like the very very long wall that protected the borders of Northern China, the Great Wall, this one seems to have been unable to prevent the surge of the...Achaeans/Mycenaeans .
Which however allowed us to read an epic book (Homer) and see a no less good film at the cinema!!

Thank you very much for this good New !!

Very nice painting .
A turquoise blue that makes us think of the most beautiful and exotic beaches in the world...
Yet the arrival of the Assyrian army somewhere doesn't really evoke the paradise, but rather hell and fire !?

Hello Bruno,

Concerning the temple of Segesta that I visited recently, the interest lies besides its good preservation and its Greek style, in the fact that it was built by a non-Greek people (the Elymaeans).

Perhaps as part of a strategic alliance with Athens against Sparta's allies in Sicily: Syracuse and especially Selinus, the rival city of Segesta.
According to the words of our guide.
But it remained unfinished.
The Athenian rout on the Epipoles plateau near Syracuse maybe explained this (!?).

Hello Figurenmaler !

thank you for your posts on the Roman city of Xanten ! (ulpia Traiana then tricense).
Learned a lot of things thanks to you and in particular the incredible existence of this archaeological park near the city.
I have attached 2 screenshots taken from your link which shows the beauty of the Roman style.
Sorry but for me, it will always be more Trajan and the Legion XXX ULPIA Ulpia Victrix than Sigfrid and the Nibelungen !!.
I recently visited Sicily and it is really worth a look, especially with its Greek cities and temples installed in the heights in the south of the island (Agrigento/Akragas and Selinunte).
In the Roman villa of Casale, I saw mosaics from the Late Empire which look a bit like those in the archaeological park of Xanten (Tricensimae?).
Attached are some other screenshots of the Roman park in Xanten for those who like me did not know it and photos from my trip to Sicily.
Very beautiful both.

Not bad.
Everything made of stone lasts over time..
I recently inquired about visiting the site of their ancient capital, in Northeast Turkey.
Interesting things to see but the site seems difficult to access and a little isolated.
The inhabitants/soldiers of Arzawa: curious to see what they looked like.
Crypto-Hittites?

Hi Brist,
I completely agree with you.
Besides, this "Assyrian Allies" set is singularly lacking in diversity when you consider the increasingly diverse troops who fought alongside the Assyrians themselves.
Arabs (a theme admirably handled by Caesar), Itteens, Gurreens, Manneens... nomadic peoples, mountain peoples. Etc.
Open Book has a very well-written and comprehensive article on the Assyrian army (Neo-Empire).
One might have imagined Urarturians in this set as well, but they were fierce opponents of the Assyrians, and from the illustrations I've seen, the Urarturians seemed to be dressed much more in Assyrian fashion (equipment and attire) than Babylonian.
So, let's go for Chaldeans!

Hi Brist,
I completely agree with you.
Besides, this "Assyrian Allies" set is singularly lacking in diversity when you consider the increasingly diverse troops who fought alongside the Assyrians themselves.
Arabs (a theme admirably handled by Caesar), Itteens, Gurreens, Manneens... nomadic peoples, mountain peoples. Etc.
Open Book has a very well-written and comprehensive article on the Assyrian army (Neo-Empire).
One might have imagined Urarturians in this set as well, but they were fierce opponents of the Assyrians, and from the illustrations I've seen, the Urarturians seemed to be dressed much more in Assyrian fashion (equipment and attire) than Babylonian.
So, let's go for Chaldeans!