Baccus6mm - Carthaginians
| Name of Product | Carthaginians |
| Product Number | ACA 1-5 |
| Manufacturer | Baccus6mm |
| Genre | Historical (Ancients) |
| Scale | 6mm (1/300th) |
| Price | ACA1 (£4.68 '96 figures') ACA2 (£4.68 '96 figures')
ACA3 (£5.62 '45 figures') ACA4 (£1.87 '2 Elephants') ACA5 (£4.68 '96 figures') |
What do you get?
Infantry comes in strips of 4, cavalry of 3, but all are
easy to separate. In fact the bases are already pre-scored
just for this.For this review let's look at the 5 different
packs of 'true' Carthaginians. Citizen, African and veteran
infantry will probably be the mainstay of every Cartahaginian
army.
The African (Libyan) infantry has round shields whereas all
the others have oval. The command sets have mixed shields which
adds to the realism.
The Libyan cavalry is again very nice with a separate command
set. That standard bearer is just beautiful!
Of course no Carthaginian army would be complete without elephants. The Bacchus elephant is the smaller African bush elephant - about twice the height of a horse- with a three man crew. mahout and two man in a small fighting tower. I'm not going into the debate whether Carthaginian elephants were strong and big enough to actually carry fighting towers or not. I prefer mine with towers and it simply 'feels' better. How objective is that?
Nicely animated and with a detail I previously thought wasn't possible at this scale. Again, I've seen many larger scale figures with much less detail. Superb!
The final word.
(Ed. WillieB was sent and reviewed miniatures from Baccus range
of Carthaginians, Celts,
Spanish, Moors
and Romans. Because of the volume
of pictures to show off the miniatures I have split the review
up into the different ranges. However in each case I have left
WillieB's final world the same in each case).
I have often admiringly looked at some of those huge 6mm wargames
or dioramas at shows, but nearly always simultaneously thought
"Well, this is not for me" "Hardly any detail
on those figures and it must be nearly impossible to paint them"
I couldn't have been more wrong. I knew that Peters' figures
were very good, I simply had no idea how good. What surprised
me most was that all the figures are much more anatomically
correct than many larger scale figures I've seen over the years.
No overly large heads or grossly inflated limbs Even the tiny
spears and swords look to scale!
To sum it up, some of the nicest figures I ever had the pleasure of seeing in this scale and highly recommended.
Reviewer - WillieB (15th October 2010)
Painted examples courtesy of Baccus6mm
