15mm Seleucids: 4 new Phalanx "The Bronze Shields"

15mm Seleucids - 4 units of kontos armed lancers

15mm Seleucid Light Cavalry

Javelin armed LC from Xyston. Nice figures although increasingly I am seeing issues with some of the horses - back legs of solid blob of metal which need drilling out. Perhaps the moulds need changing more often.

15mm Seleucids: Last of the Elephants

15mm Seleucid Elephants (2)

Two more out of the six done and the last two will be posted tomorrow.

15mm Seleucid Elephants (1)

The first two elephants of six painted.

15mm Seleucids: Imitation Legionaries

These were raised by the Seleucids copying the Roman style of warfare. There were not successful, either because they were too few in number or because they did not integrate well into the Seleucid line of battle. Furthermore what was 'imitation' exactly? Was it clothing and armour or more fundamentally the way the were to fight?