HaT 8044 Alexander's Light Infantry

(scanned at 72dpi & 100% - this is pretty much their actual size)

HAT have produced a very useful box of figures with this release. The box provides a good mixture of the Ancient/Hellenistic/Mediterranean troops you could expect in any number of armies. Usefully most of the figures are in an open pose that makes them ripe for conversion. In the box you will find the usual 48 figures posed as follows.

(Close up - aprox. 200%)

All the figures are basically unarmoured in a simple tunic either barefoot or wearing Iphicratid boots. I have indicated those wearing helmets.

8 Jav Standing* 8 Jav Running* 4 Bow Standing firing 4 Bow Standing drawing arrow 4 Staff sling Standing 4 Staff sling At ready 8 Peltast Jav 8 Attic helmet* 8 Peltast Spear Crested Pilos helmet*

(Close up - aprox. 200%)

The last two figures are particularly useful and would appear to be taken from figures 20 and 21 respectively in D Head's Armies and Enemies of the Macedonian and Punic Wars. This last figure would appear to be an Iphicratean peltast and would be more at home in a Persian army.

A very nice touch is the inclusion of 24 separate shields of three types intended for those figures marked *. The three shapes are small round, small round with boss and large crescent pelte. These not only add variety to the figures but are useful for other conversions.

The only odd choice would seem to be the inclusion of 8 staff slingers in one box. I can find no specific reference to this troop type in the latest DBM lists. Having said that they make great camp guards or fillers in a horde element.

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