[List IV/13] Landsknecht camps circa 1500 AD

There is the camps I will use with my "work in progress" german army (Holy Roman Empire, circa 1500AD)

 

 

Frieda Bierfraülein

 

 

 

[List II/46] Kuchan luggages

The luggage of my Kushan army is represented by a packing elephant. Two Scythian riders composing his crew gave the luggage the "Yuezhi" chrome characteristic of the Kouchanes riders.

The nomadic influence of the army is represented by the great number of quiver and gorytes carried.

Gandhara, Graeco-Buddhist art (1st to 5th century AD) Part of frieze in gray schist representing an elephant carrying a load on the back. Greco-Buddhist art is a synthesis of Greek and Indo-Buddhist styles that started in Gandhara (an ancient kingdom of Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan centered on the Swat and Kabul valleys, two tributaries of The Indus) when the Indo-Greek rulers, descendants of the companions of Alexander the Great, came into contact with Indian Buddhists, especially under Menander I (reign 160-135 BC), called Milinda Sanskrit.

    The relay of the Indo-Greeks was taken in the first century by the Kushan rulers whose zenith is under Kanishka I, another great protector of Buddhism.

    One of the notable aspects of Greco-Buddhist statuary is the figurative representation of the Buddha, formerly represented in symbolic form (wheel, footprint), which took the face of the Greek gods and especially of Apollo. The style of Gandhara flourished from the 1st century, under the Kushan dynasty, in the 5th century, when it disappeared with the invasion of the Shvetahūna, or white Huns. The Buddhas of Bamiyan, destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban, were one of the most spectacular achievements of the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara.

Text above and photo below taken from the site of sale Proantic.com

"Shale elephant - Gandhara region (1st-5th c.) - Archeology"

 

[List III/23a] Khmer camp XI-XIVth century AD

This is the camp of my Khmer army.

 

[List I/20b] Syrian ou cananean baggages

Whether it is on Mount Lebanon, the Golan Heights or the banks of the Orontes, the logistics of my Syrian-Canaanite army of antiquity are assured by pastoral activity.

When the Syro-Canaanites fight alongside their Mitanese suzerains (during DBA big battles sparties), the herd seeks refuge near the Mitanni encampment.

[List I/46a] Nubians / Kouchites baggages

These are the baggage used by Antoine's Kouchite Army and its Nubian BBDBA army.

The lanyard of the giraffe should be attached to his leg but, in figurine, it is weird and makes it worse than around the neck. Antoine chose to sacrifice this historical detail for aesthetics.

[Liste II/53] British celts baggages

  

"As for the Britons, their bands on foot and on horseback crossed each other tumultuously, more numerous than in any other battle, and animated by so presumptuous an audacity, that in order to have as many women as witnesses of victory , They had dragged them after them, and placed them on carriages which bordered the extremity of the plain."

 Tacite, Annales, XIV, 34

[Liste III/55] Samuraï camp and baggages

My two sons and I have each developed a Samurai army, which allows us to play a war between clans but also to unite the three armies to constitute a big battle army.

As a result, our Japanese camp is divisible into three small camps intended for single DBA parties. Each with the specific Món of his clan. The choice was made to strongly differentiate each of the three small camps in order to give the big battle camp a non-monolithic aspect.

Antoine's encampment: This is the screen of Mön's armored canvas with its lord at rest.

Image from Akira Kurosawa's film RAN

Film Kagemusha, by Akira Kurosawa

 

The baggage of Quentin: a musician communicating the instructions of the general to the army by means of a Taiko (great drum).

 

 

My baggage: two servants carrying a palanquin whose occupant went out to give his orders relayed by a seashell bell ringer.