The core of both the early and later Neo-Babylonian armies consists of chariots and massed bow levy. To these troops, the early list allows you to add two light infantry and a single element of bad-horse. The later list replaces the light foot with close-order spearmen. It also allows you to add a unit of javelin cavalry. As I had a ton of figures tied up in my old DBM army I ended up painting enough elements for both options.

The colour scheme I used for the army is loosely based on the image to the right. I used the following four base colours in various combinations for a sort of themed variety. Vallejo’s Buff, Foundry’s German early field grey (triad), Army painters white and black.

Early Neo-Babylonian list.

• 2x Chariots (1 has the general), 1x Bad horse, 2x Light-foot and 15x bow levy

Later Neo-Babylonian list.

• 2x Chariots (1 has the general, 1x Javelin cavalry, 1x Bad horse, 2x Spear and 12 bow levy.

▼ The King’s Chariot (Army General) ▼

▼ Second heavy chariot ▼

All of the figures pictured here (bar the bad horse) are from the Assyrian/Babylonian “Wargames Foundry” range. The figures I used for the bad horse are from “Eureka’s” Elamite range. Size wise I think they are a pretty good match. The most notable difference (for me) is with the horses. Although pretty similar in size the Elamite horses are slimmer and a bit on the flat side (for the lack of a better word). That said I will be getting more of them lol.

With the bulk of both lists consisting of bow levy (fifteen stands pictured below), I wouldn’t call my Neo-Babylonians a power army. This troop type is slow-moving and all but kack at fighting anything other than mounted. Even that can go badly for them as bow levy are quick-killed if beaten by mounted in a fight. Their one saving grace is that they are cheap so you get a lot of them.