Carthaginian Cavalry

Hail Caesar, Midgard Heroic Battles

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.

Next up in this Carthaginian Division box set is the characters and many, many Gauls!

9 thoughts on “Carthaginian Cavalry”

  1. Wow, not only do these look great but the scale comparison is really surprising. Those are some tiny miniatures! They do look great and I love how they fit on the scenic bases.

    I was going to ask you who made these miniatures but you cleared that up for me in this article so thank you for that as well! I’d really like to see Warlord make later Roman miniatures in this scale and I might just get into Hail Caesar then. I’ve never been as interested in the Punic Wars compared to the 12 Caesars era and beyond for whatever reason. I do look forward to seeing more of these as you get around to them!

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    1. Thanks Jeff! It’s hard to tell scale from photos so it was a great suggestion to include scale comparison shots.
      I think the epic scales have been really successful for Warlord so I wouldn’t be surprised if they kept expanding the range, so who knows we may see some later Roman miniatures yet! They already make some imperial Roman miniatures for 28mm (So do Victrix) if that’s more your era/scale!

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      1. It really helps convey how small the details are. 28mm is definitely a good scale for me overall though that is a very dark road as you need a lot of models to play most Roman games! That and having to make tree terrain has kept me away from a setting that I would otherwise love to hobby in one day!

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      2. It’s definitely a lot of work to get a convincing ancients battle at 28mm, hence why I’ve travelled over to this one! I’m keen to get some 28mm scale skirmishes going for the period however. Roman patrol ambushed by plucky Gauls and such!

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      3. You don’t need me to say it but you’re the right man for the job, I reckon! 🙂 Do you have a rule set in mind for the skirmishes? I think Clash of Spears is the most popular for that sort of thing but SPQR tried to be in that space too before Warlord killed it.

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      4. I have the rules for Clash, but never played them, also have Broken Legions on hand which I think we’ve discussed in the past. Otherwise I could easily see adapting MESBG, or of course seeing if I can make sensible warbands out of Masse d’Armes 😉

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      5. To use a saying that I only halfway understand, the world is your oyster then! I’m confident that you’ll find a good set of rules between that group 🙂

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