Egyptians and Assyrians a first try!

Took my Assyrians over to Bob’s to take on his Egyptians this week.  To be honest it didn’t go well.  We both struggled to remember how the rules worked and really got bogged down trying to work out the morale outcome between the Assyrian and Egyptian chariots.  Firing was simple and I had drawn up an OOB sheet which Bob copied across to his army which made unit and class identification easy.   But in the end we were forced to abandon the game and resolve that we need to try some small scale actions solely to work things out.  

I used these rules virtually every Sunday for a game and for the life of me I couldn’t remember how to work things out, only that it never seemed this difficult!  Anyway, I took a few pictures and we are determined that both armies deserve another proper outing!

Bob’s army needs some work on the bases as they were rapidly stuck on anything that came to hand including some of the original beer mats!  So we are going to have a base painting session to draw them altogether and give some cohesion. The Egyptians were aided by Hittites and an array of other troops! Many of the Hinchcliffe Hittites came via Stuart Asquith many, many moons ago.

The palm trees in these pictures are all off ebay.  You can get some fantastic bargains and great looking trees.  15 trees for £7.00 or a different variety 12 for £6.00.  Highly recommended.  They come in different sizes and all sizes are ideal for 25/28mm.  The small to mid range work for 20mm. They mix well together and can cover biblical to the present day and from Portugal in the west to the middle east and beyond.