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Minoan or Early Mycenaean Spear Phalanx & Archers.

The Ancient period is one of major interests, although I got into it rather later in my gaming life than many other wargamers (Ancients gaming has traditionally been a staple of the NZ Wargaming Club scene, and traditionally the majority of club members in most clubs play it). As with some of my other interests I started in 15mm (with Minoans/Early Mycenaeans – my very first army, followed by Burgundian Orddonance; then Gauls; and finally Polybian and later also Marian Romans) but have since abandoned the ‘wee scale’ and am playing exclusively in 28mm.

My current and long-time favourite army and interest are Minoans (2300BC – 1650 BC) and their more warlike cousins Early Mycenaeans (1800 BC – 1250 BC) – covering the ‘Palace Civilisation’ & early City States of the Aegean & Eastern Mediterranean, the Minoans being the currently favoured probable source of the Atlantis legend.

Another favourite is Mid & Later Republican and Early Imperial Rome (and their enemies) – the eras of Scipio Africanus & Hannibal with the 2nd Punic War, conquest of Spain, & the Macedonian Wars (Mid-Republic & the histories of Polybius), through Pompey & Julius Caesar, several Civil Wars…

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