Lucky Toys Atilla and the Black Huns

(March, 2003)

One sprue with these fellas on it...

  

  

...with three of this sprue with the horsies on it...



(All Scanned @ 200%)

Huns! Scourge of Europe, Enemies of God and all that. There are some really great quotes about your average Hun...

A roaming multitude from Skythian clime, teeming with savagery, frightful, ravening, violent, barbarous even in the eyes of the barbarian peoples around them.

Sidonius

In truces faithless and unreliable, easily swayed. Utterly ignorant of the difference between right and wrong, deceitful and ambiguios in speech, with and infinite thurst for gold, they quarrel with allies without provocation and live for rapine, slaughter and plunder.

[unknown]

Charming fellows!

These are nice figures, good detail (note the hair-dos) and the best ever standard bearer in plastic! There is a shortage of Bows (funnily enough this is not uncommon in plastics...), but you can get away with it in DBx since DBM lists the Hun LH as LH(S), and I quote...

Armed primarily with bows, but eager to take advantage of disordered enemy by charging home, such as Huns or Turkomans.

So you could consider those who have no bows as charging in on their disordered enemies...

You could also fill out the bowmen by using some Italeri Mongols, those who aren't wearing any laminated armour. (You'll have to carfully cut off the stirups though...not that hard to do).

Ok, so how do they stack up against the DBA list then?

II/80 Huns. 356AD-570AD.
 
Ref: AEIR.
(a) Attila's Army
433-453AD: 		1x3Cv or 2LH(Gen), 7x2LH, 1x3Kn, 2x4Wb, 1x2Ps.
(b) Sabir
463-588 AD: 		1x3Cv or 2LH or 4Wb(Gen), 6x2LH, 5x4Wb.
(c) Hephthalites in
India 470-570AD: 		1x3Cv(Gen), 8x2LH, 1xEL, 2x3Bw.
(d) Others
356-533AD: 		1x3Cv or 2LH(Gen), 11x2LH.

Since I don't know who Sabir or Hephtalites were, and II/80d is pretty self explanitory, I'll pass some comments on Atilla's army...

  • The Cav would be better armoured/Noble types hooning around with lances,
  • the Kn's are most likely to represent Gepids (they provided the bulk of Atila's Subject allies, and the bulk of the Gepids were Knights), or Ostrogoths,
  • Wb'd be Gepids and/or Franks,
  • Ps'd probably be Ostrogoths or Franks.

(It also occured to me that these fellows would make great Orc wolf riders too! Drawn scimitars, that great standard bearer...you'd have to chop off their facial hair though (great potential for scars!)...now, if I could just get hold of some suitably sized wolves...)

As for enemies that can be pulled together from current plastics, well, there'd be...

  • II/65b Early Visigoths and II/72d Franks - HaT's new 6000 series
  • II/67b Early Ostrogoths - HaT8022 Gallic cav with Visigoth headswaps?
  • II/78a&b Late Roman (West and East) and II/83a&b Patrician Roman (West and East) - more problamatic. For the Legionaries you could try getting hold of some Revell Praetorians and paint the ones with moulded curasies as wearing leather, giving them a nice big oval shield as well. For Auxilia try converting some Italeri/re-released Esci EIR's like my Middle Imperial Roman Auxilia and making a couple of Kn's like how I've done my Sarmations.

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