What started out as a standard set of Macedonian pikemen has now expanded to 4 different sets. They will be:

1. Macedonian pikemen
2. Later Successor pikemen
3. Hypaspists
4. Seleucid or Pontic Phalangites (these will feature separate legs featuring trousers)

All these sets will have a great choice of helmets so that your phalanx will have plenty of variety. At present I think the sets will contain 48 figures (3 command and 45 troops) but this is yet to be confirmed.

The image shows the office and musician and I hope to be able to show the standard bearer in the near future.

Here is the Macedonian standard bearer that will obviously be part of the command sprues (officer and musician below).

I would also like to point out that Steve of LittleBigMenStudios and Victrix fame has promised to produce a series of banner sheets for the Macedonian standard bearer as well as new shield transfer sheets for the pikemen. I cannot wait to see these.

Work will now start on the Numidian cavalry. News on this set will follow in due course.

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The new 1812-15 Napoleonic French Artillery is likely to be out in the next week to 10 days. Before this new set is released we will run a post free deal for 1 week only, finishing next Sunday.

For all orders over £50.00 we will ship post free anywhere in the world. Please note the offer only applies to orders OVER £50.00. To qualify just type Postfree in the discount box when checking out.

In addition Steve has produced a fantastic new limited edition Hoplite shield transfer sheet. For every box of ancients purchased you will receive a free transfer sheet. Purchase 4 boxes of our ancients and you will receive 4 limited edition shield transfer sheets.

The shield is not based on an actual design but is a hypothetical design inspired by the story of Greek Mercenaries who fought for the Corinthian general Timoleon against the Carthaginians in Sicily, decisively beating the Carthaginian army at the battle of the River Krimisos in 341BC.

Some of his mercenaries are said to have had elaborate purple painted shields inlaid with Ivory, gold and amber. They were highly paid and some would have been a picked Guard.

This sheet is only going to be available for the deal and then it’s gone.

Finally as a reminder I have posted some images of our Ancients range to remind everyone how good our miniatures really are.

Here we have some images of the Successor phalanx. There are plenty of head variants in this set with multiple crest options. They include Attic, Pylos and Thracian styles that work for Antigonid, Pyrrhic, Seleucid and Ptolmaic Successors or later Hellenistic Greek armies. Mixed with the heads available from the Alexandrian Macedonian phalanx set there will be an enormous amount of options.

There will be trousered leg options of legs attached to bases that can be used to replace the legs of the phalangite models and make them into Eastern trained Phalangites as used by the Seleucids and Mithridates VI of Pontus.

Images of those Eastern Phalangite conversion options will be shown next week along with the Hypaspist models. The Hypaspist set will depict the Hypaspists in linothorax with Hoplite shield and long thrusting spear. Very much like Greek Hoplites. We decided to include some Corinthian style helmets with crest options in the set to give it multiple uses as Greek Hoplites at the ready.

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