DBA Special: Book I/7 Early Libyan 3000 to 1251 BC

 

This army reflects the Libyan armies from the great age of Egypt: from the earliest times to the age of the New Kingdom and the period of Kadesh.  The core of the army is auxilia or (fast) hordes and I have chosen to fill the ranks with a rag-tag of desert supporters.

 

Most of the figures in this army are Chariot Miniatures (with the odd Essex and Falcon figure mixed in for variety).  I can't see this general wanting to deploy as a lone warband but it may be something to try at some stage.

 

(DBA I/7 ... Early Libyan warriors deployed as 'horde')

I have tried to incorporate a number of animal skin patterns (although some can be a little challenging in 15mm!).

 

 

(one of these skirmishers seems to have wandered off!)

A Libyan waterside camp ...

I can't say littoral as the army isn't (even though they allied with the Sea People and fought in the delta): you have to be a few hundred years later (Libyan Egyptian) to fight beside the water.  So this is any old inlet ...

 

(15mm Libyans: plastic palm tree, Chariot soldier, Essex boatman, Museum reed boat)

... and a Chariot and an Irregular cauldron on the boil.

The removable boat is the CF, mounted on 'perspex' as that's how I generally do water.  But I have provided a spare javelin base (in addition to the camera shy ones!) ... so that if anyone baulks at the boat sallying out, I can provide a suitable substitute.

 

((DBA camp: a waterside vignette)

I tried to do one of those trompe l'oeil painted fish in the water.  You can see it through the boat's plastic base.  It is very small but sort of works ... and there are some lilies to give an illusion of depth.

 

(15mm fish in the water ... water teems with fish in Egyptian pictures)

 

(15mm duck by Museum Minitures)

 

 This army pairs with Nubian.