10 in the set, half of which are archers, which, when added to the Modern Amazon foot, gives them a lot more firepower.
This lot are dressed and armed less like their Modern Amazon sisters, who are more along the lines of Conan/ Hercules / Zena type Books, Comics and films but more like the ancient greek depiction of Amazons.
Were there actual Tribes of Amazons? The greek stories of female warriors of scythian / sarmatian tribes of female warriors may have, with the telling, become exaggerated. Archeological finds Show about 20% of Scythian-Sarmatian 'warrior graves' contain women dressed and armed for battle similar to the male warriors of the time so maybe not whole tribes purely made up of females but it´s likely females fought alongside the males.
That, or that the women practised the arts of war so that when the men went to war they could defend thier camps. Maybe the idea of purely female warrior tribes came to be after such a camp was found by a foreign army/travellers
Who knows for sure and TBH, I don´t much care as they will become part of the Cimmerian faction.
Mounted section
The ranged weapons sections.
Mounted
Foot
Now there´s only the second set of Cimmerian foot to get painted and that´s the Cimmerians finished.
