Ruins of Thámerü, part 2

The Tsolyáni forces for my scenario are a bit easier to calculate.  First, here is the original Order of Battle:

Heavy Infantry

900 from the Legion of Hnálla, 4th Imperial Heavy Infantry
600 from the Legion of Gurúggmu, 3rd Imperial Auxiliary Heavy Infantry (Ahoggyá)
1000 from the Legion of The Splendour of Shényu, 4th Imperial Auxiliary Heavy Infantry (Shén)
2000 from the Legion of Mirkitáni, 7th Imperial Heavy Infantry

Medium Infantry

1000 from the Legion of Tik-newk-ket, 1st Imperial Auxiliary Medium Infantry (Pé Chói)
2000 from the Legion of The Lord of Red Devastation, 18th Imperial Medium Infantry

Light Infantry

1000 from the Legion of The Joyful Clan of Vrayani, 3rd Imperial Slingers
900 from the Legion of Aerial Joy, 9th Imperial (Hláka)

Archers

400 from the Legion of Girikteshmu, 23rd Imperial Archers

Artillery

75 medium and 20 light ballista from the Legion of Mengano the Jakallan

And...

3000 locally-recruited peasants


Not quite as much shuffling was needed to revise this group:

2000 heavy infantry (with 500 archers) from the Legion of Sérqu
2000 heavy infantry (with 500 archers) from the First Legion of Ever Present Glory
500 heavy infantry from the Legion of Gurúggmu (Ahoggyá)
1000 heavy infantry from the Legion of The City of Chri (Shén)

1500 medium infantry from the Aridani Legion of Lady Mríssa
1500 medium from the Legion of The Lord of Red Devastation

1000 light infantry from the Legion of the Sapphire Kirtle (slingers)
1000 light infantry from the Legion of Aerial Joy (Hláka)

75 medium ballista from the Legion of Mengano the Jakallan

3000 peasant rabble



Most notable in their absence are the archers of Girikteshmu, and the light ballista.  These were folded into the heavy infantry as archers.  The number of heavy infantry did go up a bit because of this.  The fine troops of the Legion of The Splendour of Shényu were replaced with their lesser counterparts of the City of Chri for the sole purpose of using the Legion's commander - a human dressed like a reptilian Shén!  And my choices for the other heavy infantry, Sérqu and Ever Present Glory, were in production and should return soon (I also have enough of them already, except the Sérqu archers... :)

Pé Chói miniatures are not available, but it seemed natural to replace them with the medium infantry of Lady Mríssa's legion.  These miniatures are in production!  And, it is my understanding that sculpting is proceeding on the Legion of The Lord of Red Devastation...

Once again, the Sapphire Kirtle slinger miniatures are in production, making the replacement of the Vrayani much easier.  The Hláka are also available.

The artillery will be a problem to acquire, and will need a suitable proxy, as well as the peasants.

With the exception of the peasants, I already possess about half of the miniatures needed for this Tsolyáni force.


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Ruins of Thámerü, part 1

For the original setting for my scenario, the Battle of the Temple of Chanis, the Mu'ugalavyáni forces consisted of the following:

Heavy Infantry

500 from Legion 9 of the Third Palace, Iridescent Egg (Shén)
3000 from Legion 1 of the Second Palace, Destroy in Glory
5000 from Legion 1 of the First Palace, Victorious in Vimúhla

Medium Infantry

1500 from Legion 12 of the First Palace, Mandibles of Iron (Pé Chói)
1000 from Legion 4 of the First Palace, Strike

Light Infantry

1000 from Legion 13 of the First Palace, The Band of Hlkeksh (N'lüss)
500 from Legion 15 of the First Palace, Slay on High (Hláka)

Archers

2500 from Legion 8 of the First Palace, Long Arrow


For my scenario, I had to do a bit of shuffling in order to get it situated in a better way for the Yán Kór.  Of course, a few units translated directly over, like the Hláka.  So, the Yán Kór force looks like this:



1500 heavy infantry and 1000 archers from the Gurék of Valiant of Ke'ér
3000 heavy infantry and 1000 medium infantry from the Gurék of Tléku Miriyá
1500 heavy infantry and 1500 medium infantry from the Gurék of the Turquoise Eye
1500 heavy infantry from the Horde of the Egg-Eaters of Ss-kú  (Shén)
1000 light infantry from the Band of G'yúdr  (N'lüss)
500 flyers from the Battalion of Freedom on High  (Hláka)
2500 archers from the Gurék of Mákhis


In the conversion, I tried to keep the numbers of the main troop types - heavy, medium, etc. - as close as possible to the original.  I did boost the numbers on the Shén present, just because!  The numbers to give that boost did come from the pool of HI, however.  

This selection is also tied to the production status of the miniatures.  Of the above, the Hláka, the Shén, and the archers of Mákhis are currently in production.  The core of this Yán Kór force, the guréks of Ke'ér, Tléku Miriyá, and Turquoise Eye, are scheduled to come back into production in the coming months.  

Unfortunately, the Pé Chói are not available, and would be difficult to proxy, hence their replacement by the medium troops of the main guréks.  Also, I am not sure but there seems to be very few Pé Chói serving the Baron's forces.  The N'lüss are also not in production, but since this project will take a considerable amount of time to finish, maybe they will show before I need them!


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Tékumel game planning, part 2

Just a brief post  -  As I slowly sift through the list of points that need to be completed for my upcoming (in the far distance!) Tékumel battle, a catchy name was needed.  I did think about just using Chanis, but that did not fit so well as that is a battle with the Red Hats, of which none would be present on my table.  So, after a bit of shuffling, I came up with:

The Battle of the Ruins of Thámerü

OK, it is not so catchy, but there it is!

Next up, Orders of Battle changes for each empire based on the original Chanis scenario (which can be seen in these excerpts from Dragon #4)


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