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Yes, there are some Hät, some Strelets and nearly all Italeri sets with strange proportions of those figures - especially far to large heads. This is a major drawback, but Strelets and Hät phased those sculpting out. Those Revell Ancients are not as well researched as the modern one or even the ancient airfix Britons - far to Hollywood Style.
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I do not chose one list. All of them are important in my view, because any of those add value to my collection. I would not have started this hobby without AIRFIX ( I esteem their Britons even today as an excellent set). Hät brought back the ancient range after a mediocre attempt by ESCI. Than the beat accellerates to the maniac Caesar who barely missed any ancient period and ZVEZDA who improved set by set to excellence. Ultima Ratio added bitterly needed Carthaginians and Iberians. Hannibals Iberians are complete only by combining those sets with the Orion and Hät sets - now they are battle ready.
The smaller manufacturers like Lucky Toys or Odemars made sets worth looking for. I love those Lucky Toy Indians, wait for my Lucky Toys "Huns" and am searching for the Odemars "Oscans" and "Legionaries".
Only one manufacturer would be boring. Let them compete.
The crown for the best researched and sculpted figures goes to Linear A at this moment.
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Hmmmm Macedonian Phalanx ....
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Wie schauts aus ? Kommt dieses Set hier noch im Onlineshop an?
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Und bisher wurden es sehr sehr gute Figuren. Ich freue mich auf die kommenden...
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Die Einführung der Türme für die Elefanten wurde doch gerade Pyrrhos zugeschrieben. Er soll diese Türme erfunden und eingeführt haben. Das geschah evtl schon in seiner Dienstzeit bei den Ptolemäern, denn daher bezog er ja auch diese Elefanten. Da so ein Turm eher einfach herzustellen ist, wenn man Weiss wie es geht, wäre es doch ungewöhnlich nicht alle damit aus zu stetten, denn das macht sie im Kampf doch effektiver. Wickerwork, Canvas, bisschen Holz und Leder wird die Armee ja gehabt haben.
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Oh Gott, was mache ich jetzt?
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Besser gute Figuren als schnelle.
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Das ist dann sehr stimmig.
Ich hoffe ja immer noch auf Phalangisti in Combat - also mit der Sarisse zustossend, evtl fechtend. Polybios beschrieb das ja rudimentär so - dass einer das Schild des Gegners fixierte und die anderen "auf ihn einstürmten - was ja kaum abzuwehren war. Könnte also sehr interessant werden und ist sicher eine angemessene deutliche Herausforderung für Euch!
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Die Umsetzung klingt folgerichtig und interessant. Bessere Figuren rechtfertigen höhere Preise und momentan fertigt Linear A wohl die besten Figuren hinsichtlich Sculpting, historischer Stimmigkeit und auch der Auswahl der Themen. Verglichen mit Ultima Ratio die grenzwertig teuer sind und wenn man will, dass ich die noch mal kaufe auch nicht noch teurer werden dürfen, hat hier Linear A noch einen guten Spielraum.
Diese Infanterie Strips interessieren mich - was genau kann man sich darunter vorstellen? Truppen in Formation mit den richtigen "Haltungen" am richtigen Platz? Also beispielsweise die makedonische Phalanx mit 5 Mann horizontale Sarissa, dann zwei mal Reihen mit ansteigenden Gradzahlen und am Ende Krieger die die Waffe senkrecht halten jeweils im Block und gleich so aufzubauen? Das finde ich dann sehr interessant, weil die Darstellung so einer Formation deutlich leichter wird. Der Normalfall wäre dann Mini Set = Command Set und "Spezialitäten", die Normalsets mit 22 Figuren Krieger die ausser der Reihe handeln und dann diese Strips mit Kriegern in Formation?
Das fände ich jedenfalls als optimal und eine gute Idee.
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Einfach WOW - extrem gut.
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Your question is to simplify does he keep his Cretans he had in Belgium 57 until Pharsalos? First the Cretans were mercenaries - he had to pay a awful lot money to keep them. Then he fought against Pompey who was in possession of Crete. Pompey ruled over the Cretan territory and therefore over their homes and their families - and Pompey emplored Cretan mercenaries - most likely relatives of those "Belgium" Cretans. Would they stay for more than ten years at Caesars side ? They had a choice legionaries did not have. They could cancel their mercenary employment. They were not drafted, they were not obliged to fight for the Fatherland. Did mercenaries from a poleis or small hellenistic entity fight mercenaries on the opposing side from the same poleis or entity? Or did they refuse to fight their kin?
Then why did Caesar mention the Cretans by their name defending a Belgian town and fighting against the Belgians but did not name them afterward - even when they defeated the dreadful elefants? He named Germanic and Gallic Horsemen, Glatian (Deiotaric) Legionaries or even Iberian fighters when he used them.
There are arguments that he used Cretans all the time - but these are founded simply on the fact, that he used them once in Belgium and that they were renowned to be the best. That are valid arguments.
But my arguments against the use of Cretans at Pharsalsus are also valid. He did not mention them - he even names celtic cavalry deserting him. He never names any Cretans after Belgium. I do not know any battle of either the Gallic War nor the Civil War that has been influenced by bowmen of the Roman Caesarian army. How many Cretan archers were there anyway? Were there enough to serve in both armies? Alexander the Great employed 500 Cretan archers ( at Granicos), Antiochos the III had 1500 Cretans at Raphia and supplemented them by 1000 Neo-Cretans fighting in Cretan Style.
So there were only a few Cretans available at all. Did Crassus hire Cretans for his Parthian Campain? How many Cretans did Pompey employ? Were there any Cretan archers left to hire for Caesar? I doubt that.
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At the time of the Battle of Pharsalos Crete was in the realm of Pompey. Did a unit of Cretian Archers at any time did fight another unit of Cretian archers? They were mercenaries neither fighting for a common cause or their "imperator".
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In his own book Caesar mentions even more than one centurion by name praising their individual deeds.
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