15mm Arab Conquest Army Completed

 Just a quick post with a few photos of my recently completed Arab Conquest army. All the figures are from the Forged in Battle Dark Ages Arab range:

The real killer with this project was all the swordsmen I had to paint, with two hundred and sixty figures in total. Initially I thought that there was just blade or Bd(O) required, which would have represented a more modest one hundred and seventy-six, but then I flipped over the page and found I needed an additional eight-four based differently as warband. These are mutually exclusive in that if you want to field the cavalry as heavy cavalry (ie 'Knights') you lose the blade and replace them with warband:

 

Far more enjoyable to paint, probably because there weren't so many of them, was the cavalry, and especially the heavy cavalry as these are very nice little sculpts:

In total the army is comprised of one hundred and twenty-five horses and camels, four hundred and thirty-seven foot and riders, totaling five hundred and sixty two figures.

Next up is the last of my quartet of Arab armies; the Ghurids which was a Sunni Muslim empire centered in Afghanistan and lasting around a hundred years from 1148. It emerged just as the two-hundred year Ghaznavid empire was declining, to be eventually overthrown by the Ghurids. This one will require two-hundred and sixty pikemen, so at least I now know what to expect.