Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Neo-Babylonian Infantry

 








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.









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17 comments:

  1. Jonathan FreitagNovember 14, 2023 at 10:38 AM

    I love Newline's Babylonian spearmen. Good reading suggestions.

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    1. CyrusNovember 14, 2023 at 1:29 PM

      I prefer the Foundry Babylonian spearmen but they are nice figures and good value. There’s no shortage of reading material.

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  2. DeanMNovember 14, 2023 at 2:14 PM

    Great looking Ancients again, Mike!

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  3. Michal DwarfCryptNovember 14, 2023 at 5:15 PM

    Beautiful looking unit!

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  4. caveadsum1471November 14, 2023 at 9:33 PM

    Lovely looking ancients and a useful reading list!
    Best Iain

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    1. CyrusNovember 15, 2023 at 8:14 AM

      Thanks Iain, there are some great books on the Assyrian army.

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  5. El GregoNovember 14, 2023 at 11:40 PM

    Excellent. Those shields really stand out!

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  6. Ray RousellNovember 15, 2023 at 4:04 AM

    Love the striking blue shields on the unit.

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  7. BedfordNovember 25, 2025 at 12:37 AM

    Hi, 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.
    Any help would be very much appreciated.

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    1. CyrusNovember 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM

      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.

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    2. BedfordNovember 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM

      Thanks 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

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    3. CyrusNovember 28, 2025 at 6:18 AM

      No 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!

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    4. BedfordNovember 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM

      They had a fine habit of revolting.

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