10mm Carthaginian Army for TTS!

Back when we had wargaming conventions, I watched my gaming buddies played in a game of To the Strongest! (TTS) at Cold Wars 2019. We were really enthused with the ruleset and as luck would have it, my one buddy Rob found a steal of a deal for unpainted Roman and Carthaginian armies down at Wally's Basement. We bought the lot and split it up. The bulk of the figures were Old Glory 10mm with a smattering of Magister Militum and Pendraken. I subsequently purchased more figures to flesh out the armies. They've been painted for a while (still need to finish the Roman army camp) but I just managed to photograph them. Here is the Punic contingent:

My Carthaginian camp, its kinda sparse but I wanted it that way. We have a pack elephant (Magister Militum), some pack horses (Pendraken), a trumpeter and standard bearer (Old Glory), a general (Magister Militum Vignette) and a tent (Pendraken). One big, mixed, happy family of manufacturers!

Another angle of the army camp, situated near the standard bearer are some loose shields that I snipped from excess Old Glory Romans.

The pride and glory of my Carthaginian army, my elephants! TTS allows two bases of these magnificent beasts If my memory serves me right, the elephants with the draperies are Magister Militum and the bare elephants are Pendraken. I believe all the riders are Magister Militum.

Another angle of these fellas. I kitted them out with some Libyan skirmishers (Old Glory) so they would be considered "escorted" in TTS, giving them a little more staying power.

Here are my Celtic swords (and spears) for hire. The vast bulk of my infantry and cavalry are Old Glory. The majority come in strips with the exception of the skirmishers and cavalry. I wanted these guys in a bright cacophony of colors and stripes. OG provides several different strip variants in their Gallic infantry bags. They wanted these guys chaotic and diverse!

Here's another snap of the Celts with a look at their back sides. Alot of bare flesh here for these proud warriors. The Celts are one of the only groups in this army where you will see blues and greens. I thought it was important to mix in some stripes to give them that Gallic feel. The Celts are considered "deep" units so they have a deeper base and an extra rank of soldiers.

Now my Spaniards. Probably my favorite units because of their shields. I wanted certain uniform but irregular palettes and themes for my different units. The Spanish have a hodgepodge of  red, black, white and yellow. These guys pop with the colors.

Here is another pic showing their back sides. I should mention that the majority of the OG strips are shields in the front and tunics in the back. It makes painting them very quick and easy. The Spanish infantry had a neat little leather helmet with a plume on them. 

Not nearly as sexy but still kinda cool. Here are my Libo-Phoenician veterans. White shields with red and black trim and design work. Palm trees and Tanit designs to give them that punic feel. I used Micron pens to do the design work.

And their backsides showing the plain tunics and helmets.

Here are my Libyan javelin skirmishers. These are grimy little buggers with dark earth tone hues and mohawks.

Carthaginian foot general stands. These are "Greek" command strips from Old Glory, slap some Tyrian purple on them and you have Carthaginians. There you go!

Old Glory army commanders from their "Greek" generals with the obligatory Tyrian purple. Mago, Hamilcar, Hasdrubal? I dunno, whoever you want them to be. The gent on the right is a Spanish general from Pendraken.

And what respectable Carthaginian army would go without Numidians? Not this army! Here are my Old Glory Numidian cavalry. I really like the sculpt of the rider, he just looks so cool and calm and confident in his riding and fighting ability. Unfortunately, its the only sculpt in the bag. I tried to base them like they are wheeling about like Numidians do...

The Numidian rears, I should mention that I littered the bases with an occasional red or white shield. These were clipped from Roman "legionnaires" or something like that from the OG Gallic Wars range.

My Celtic cavalry. Say hello again to stripes, blues and greens and some blonde hair!

The Celts showing off their backsides and striped robes. I believe there are 3 or so different rider sculpts in this bag of Old Glory figures.

Spanish cavalry, more reds, whites, yellows and blacks. An obligatory shield on the ground.

And they wanted to show you their back sides as well!

That's the Carthaginian army. I should add that I only snapped pics of some of the figures from each contingent. I will have to go back and snap an army picture so you can see they are all one big happy family (provided they are getting paid). Its a pretty decent sized army and I am both happy and somewhat surprised to have finished them. It was fun to paint and I went with speed over paint quality. I quickly prepped them with a file and nippers, rinsed the metal dust and finger grease off them and primed black. After that I gave them a drybrush of tan to show off the details and block painted the base colors. They got some very basic and crude hi-lights followed by a light wash and varnish. I will post the Roman army next...