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They had less than 100 at the end of the war) Had it not been for their 3k in the battle of. (They had ~3250 people when I hired them. I suspect GB will be considerably taller.I once had them suffer almost 98% loss in a pretty bad civil war. I think I will pick up a unit of the GB axemen and the Crusader parade dress figures at Warfare in Reading in 10 days time and compare them for size.
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I don’t think the current GB sculptors are a patch on the Pattens. These figures were much more anatomically correct than the more recent GB figures (Byzantine included) which are tending towards the dreaded (by me anyway) “big head syndrome”. The GB axemen are all in mid-swing but I have to say I don’t think that they are as nice as the GB Viking Double Handed axemen. The poses of the Palace/parade dress figures are much more similar and one is identical ,based as they are on and Angus McBride illustration from the Osprey book Byzantine Armies 886-1118. The GB spearmen figures are much more animated than the Crusader ones who are standing with spears upright. However I believe that their will be 1 or 2 more packs of Varangians as DAB008 and 009 have not been allocated yet.
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Technically the palace guard wouldn’t fight in their full dress uniforms but I will need some for the Emperor’s retinue.Ĭrusader currently only offer 2 packs of Varangians: Gripping Beast offer 4 packs of Varangians:īYZ01 Command (2 officers) a musician and standard bearer If all his Byzantine range is like this then it could be a good bet. This figure was sculpted by Mark Sims of Crusader and is very nice.
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I have also heard via The Miniatures Page that the later GB figures are a different size from the earlier ones: an annoying habit of figure manufacturers which puts me right off!įirst off I will look at the Varangians as they are likely to be the first unit I build as I love Norsemen and the only figure I currently own is Harald Hardrada as a Varangian officer which was a free gift with Beyond the Golden Gate. I don’t believe that the two are really compatible in size but I need to order a couple of packs to check. In order to decide which ones to go for I need to analyse their respective ranges. Having looked at what is out there the choice for figures is going to be between Gripping Beast and Crusader. For this period I think I am going to have to mix however so it is just a question of whose figures I use for the majority of my forces. I think it is actually very rare to find two manufacturers whose figures really are compatible in one unit and I am constantly amazed when people say that such and such a figure works fine with another maker when I think that they have quite different builds and sizes. I also prefer to buy my armies using one manufacturer. I tend to buy my figures based on the sculptor and rarely find ranges where the sculptors are anonymous where I like the figures (an exception being the A&A 3rd Century Romans). My interest in particular armies is primarily visual: I have no great interest in the politics, history or economics of the Byzantine Empire although no doubt that will develop as I read into the subject.