{"id":457,"date":"2021-04-21T11:27:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T10:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/?p=457"},"modified":"2021-04-21T11:40:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T10:40:22","slug":"painted-nikephorian-byzantines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/2021\/04\/21\/painted-nikephorian-byzantines\/","title":{"rendered":"Painted Nikephorian Byzantines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

These are the painted-up Nikephorian Byzantines from West Wind (although see previous posts – some of them are actually coded as Thematic Byzantines on their webstore – check the pictures).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In general pretty good figures that paint up well with my fairly brisk technique – certainly fine for general wargaming purposes. If I had a criticism, it would be that I could do with another couple of poses for the cavalry – they get a bit samey after a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, the bulk of the regular part of the army:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nikephorian Byzantine (DBMM) army, figures by West Wind.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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The Emperor Ioannes Tzimikes, with his Athanatoi guards:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tagmatic Kavallarioi (DBMM Reg Cv(S)) with general. Figures by West Wind, banners and shields by Little Big Men.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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The Megas Domestikos Michael, commanding the right wing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tagmatic Kavallarioi (DBMM Reg Cv(S)) with general. Figures by West Wind, banners and shields by Little Big Men.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Under the protection of the Theotokos, the Logothete Basileos urges the left flank forwards:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tagmatic Kavallarioi (DBMM Reg Cv(S)) with general. Figures by West Wind, banners and shields by Little Big Men.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Meanwhile, brave Kaloioannes commands the rearguard, ready for any eventuality:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tagmatic Kavallarioi (DBMM Reg Cv(S)) with general. Figures by West Wind, banners and shields by Little Big Men.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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The elite of the army are the heavily armoured klibanophoroi:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tagmatic Klibanophoroi (DBMM Reg Kn(X)\/Reg Kn(I) double base). Figures by West Wind, banners and shields by Little Big Men.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the backbone of the army are the sturdy thematic peasantry, forming a wall of spears and arrows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thematic Skoutatoi, Akontistoi, Psiloi and Menlavatoi (DBMM Reg Bw(X), Bw(O), Ps(S), Ps(O) and Bd(X)). Figures by West Wind, banners and shields by Little Big Men.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Thematic Skoutatoi, Akontistoi, Psiloi and Menlavatoi (DBMM Reg Bw(X), Bw(O), Ps(S), Ps(O) and Bd(X)). Figures by West Wind, banners and shields by Little Big Men.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Thematic Skoutatoi, Akontistoi, Psiloi and Menlavatoi (DBMM Reg Bw(X), Bw(O), Ps(S), Ps(O) and Bd(X)). Figures by West Wind, banners and shields by Little Big Men.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

One thing I did discover during the painting of this army was that the Little Big Men<\/a> shield transfers for Khurasan miniatures skoutatoi<\/a> fitted the West Wind cavalry kite shields perfectly. The West Wind cavalry shields are shorter and fatter than the infantry shields, so the LBM transfers fit the infantry shields<\/a> well, but need to be trimmed to fit the cavalry shields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These are the painted-up Nikephorian Byzantines from West Wind (although see previous posts – some of them are actually coded as Thematic Byzantines on their webstore – check the pictures). In general pretty good figures that paint up well with my fairly brisk technique – certainly fine for general wargaming purposes. If I had a … Continue reading “Painted Nikephorian Byzantines”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[23,22],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wargaming","tag-byzantine","tag-nikephorian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}