Here are some Neo-Babylonian infantry from the archives, mixed spearmen and archers, they're Newline Designs figures. I'm currently reading Mark Healy's
The Ancient Assyrians, Empire and Army, 883-612 BC. This is a hardback updated and expanded version (320 pages) of his 1991 Osprey book
The Ancient Assyrians. It still has the colour illustrations by Angus McBride, as well as additional illustrations and full page photographs from the British Museum. Definitely worth getting if you are interested in the Neo-Assyrians. Also highly recommended are Eckart Frahm's
Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire and Roland Sennewald's
The Art of War in Ancient Assyria: The Sargonid Dynasty at War from Sargon II to Ashurbanipal (722-627 BC). Sennewald has an accompanying volume
The Enemies of the Assyrian Sargonid Empire to be published this year. Tamas Dezso's three volume
The Assyrian Army seems to be out of print now but might be available from second hand booksellers.
I love Newline's Babylonian spearmen. Good reading suggestions.
ReplyDeleteI prefer the Foundry Babylonian spearmen but they are nice figures and good value. There’s no shortage of reading material.
DeleteGreat looking Ancients again, Mike!
ReplyDeleteThanks Dean.
DeleteBeautiful looking unit!
ReplyDeleteThanks Michal.
DeleteLovely looking ancients and a useful reading list!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Thanks Iain, there are some great books on the Assyrian army.
DeleteExcellent. Those shields really stand out!
ReplyDeleteThanks El Grego, it’s a good blue to use.
DeleteLove the striking blue shields on the unit.
ReplyDeleteThanks Ray.
DeleteHi, Did Roland Sennenwald's, The Enemies of the Assyrian Sargonid Empire ever go into print at all in English? I've been scouring everywhere for information on the Babylonian army which faced off against the Assyrians and I'm getting nowhere fast.
ReplyDeleteAny help would be very much appreciated.
Hi apologies for the slow response. I don’t think so I checked on the Zeughaus Verlag website recently and it doesn’t seem to have been published yet. I find the WRG book Armies of the Ancient Near East really useful for most armies and it has short sections on the Neo-Babylonians. There’s not really a lot of information available, the WAB Chariot Wars has some nice illustrations, hope this helps.
DeleteThanks mate. That's a real shame as it would have been a real hit among Bronze Ange/Early Iron Age wargamers. Armies of the Ancient Near East is the *only* WRG publication that I do not own and it's not going cheap on eVilbay. I might try ABE books and pray lol
DeleteNo worries. Abebooks has a copy but not cheap. The Neo-Babylonian army was very similar to the Neo-Assyrian army as it was part of their empire for much of the time, except when revolting!
DeleteThey had a fine habit of revolting.
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