Carthaginian Cavalry

Back in this post with further work on my epic scale Punic Wars project, with some cavalry this time!

Warlord Games lists these a Libi-Phoenician Medium Cavalry on the box, I’ll be using them as heavy cavalry in the game as the Midgard ruleset keeps things simple as light or heavy cavalry for mounted units and I’m generally following the units as provided in the example punic wars army lists provided by the author of Midgard.

The Warlord Games sprues come with 10 of these models, but I’ve saved one to bulk out a character base for when I get to those. I’ll be using it to mark a character as more important by having two models on the base rather than the one.

Painting-wise there’s not too much to report, I’m sticking with the formula that’s worked well for me at this scale: undercoat the models black, then base coat them all over with Vallejo Nato Brown. This tackles all the leather and other nondescript brown items on the models and lets me focus on the more colourful details. The horses are done with contrast paints (Gore-grunta Fur, Wyldwood Brown, Black Templar), and I picked out the cloth areas in alternate bone/blue/purple colours. The skin is AK Tan Earth, and the metals my favourites Scale 75 Black Metal and Necro Gold. The models get an all over wash of Army Painter Strong Tone, and then I pick out at few areas of interest (mostly the cloth areas) in their base colours as a highlight. The only real highlight on the models is the spear shafts which I pick out in Vallejo English Uniform to make them pop out.

I lost the transfer sheet for the set, so I went for hand painted symbols, sticking with the Sign of Tanit as it’s relatively straightforward to paint at this scale.

Speaking of scale, last post Jeff over at https://kuribospainting.com asked for some scale shots to show the size of these models relative to “usual” models. So here they are next to Warhammer Empire models which I hope offer a relatively familiar standard, Hope this helps! The Warlord models are an odd scale from what I understand, something like 13.5mm, so just under half the size of a 28mm model.