DBA II/80ab Huns

“There, where I have passed, the grass will never grow gain,” fun guy, that Atilla. In the 4th century C.E. the Huns, led by their horse mounted warriors, spread westward. 

Formed on the backbone of their mounted warriors these unarmoured horse archers, were the cruel masters of energetic, disciplined hit-and-run tactics which made increasingly ill-disciplined infantry like the Roman legions all the more vulnerable.

Anyway, here is my freshly minted Hunnic army. It covers all the options for DBA II/80ab (Atitta’s army and the Sabir army). I painted this army by stealth - that is I added a few Hun figures here and there as I painted my Late Romans, Ostrogoths, Visigoths and Achaemenids. 

For example, I just painted an extra stand or two of warband as I painted the Gothic armies. It worked out okay in that painting the other armies wasn’t particularly slowed down while the Huns gradually came together. 

Here are all three of the CinC options for the various versions of the hunnic armies. 

(L-R) Warband, Cavalry and Light horse

Cavalry General (Cv) - Atilla himself

Light Horse (LH) General

Warband General - (Sabir Huns only)

Subject Ostrogothic cavalry (3Kn)

The Savage Huns (LH)

Subject foot warriors (4Wb) - Irregular Miniatures

I cheated slightly here. The warband style warriors for the Sabirs should have been more Hunnic in appearance but I'll use the Gothic style foot for both the Atilla & Sabir options. 

At least the Sabir foot general is 'Hunnic' :

The Sabir Hunnic warriors - Archer option (4Bw) 

 - Alternative Armies figures

Archers (Ps) - Alternative Armies minis 

 The Baggage camp

Featherstone Fighting Factor: 47

The Huns? Wow they’re good! 

What with their terror and ferocity who can stand against them? They’re one of the best of those pesky horse archer armies. 

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DBA II/67b Early Ostrogoths

Here's my early Ostrogoth army (200 AD - 493 AD).

Basically Ostrothic tribes until the reign of Theodoric the Great starting in 493 AD. 

Its main differentiation from the DBA II/65 Visigoths lists is that it these guys are cavalry focused while the Visigoths are more warband oriented.

This is a very restricted list of exactly 12 elements, 6 each of Noble cavalry (3Kn) and archers (Ps), making for an interesting army on the table. 

Half the army is pretty powerful but potentially too impetuous for its own good while the other half is flexible and potentially very useful but vulnerable in the open. I foresee some interesting battles ahead for these guys.

The army, being pretty small - only those 12 elements and all -  got painted pretty quickly. The shields were, of course, the fun part of the painting process.

The noble cavalry figures are from Irregular Miniatures. They were good figures to paint with nice large shields for decorating but are really probably from a later period than this one. Just look at their shields not their armour.

These archers are mainly Essex Miniatures with a couple of Museum Miniatures sneaking in.

This is the baggage camp. The figures are one each of 

Tin Soldier and Museum Miniatures.

Featherstone Fighting Factor: 30 - The Goths? Meh! 

Game-changers but…

Donald says that the Goths may have helped revolutionise heavy cavalry warfare but otherwise they were largely vanilla.

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