Showing posts with label Blade Wielding Warriors. Show all posts
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August 15, 2021

Poptoys 1/6 Ishida Mitsunari 石田三成

 

Quick biography of Ishida Mitsunari : Long story short, after the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, his vast empire was broken into 2 factions. One lead by Tokugawa Ieyasu and the other, by Ishida Mitsunari. They both met in a climatic decisive battle of Sekigahara with Mitsunari leading the "West Army" against Ieyasu's "East Army". Ieyasu came up to be the eventual winner.
Mitsunari was executed (beheaded) in Kyoto. Ending as predictable as such!
 

January 5, 2014

Kaustic Plastik Roman Gladiator Thraex

From Wikipedia :
The Thraex (pl. thraeces), or Thracian, was a type of Roman gladiator, armed in the Thracian style with small rectangular shield called a parmula (about 60 x 65 cm) and a very short sword with a slightly curved blade called a sica (like a small version of the Dacian falx), intended to maim an opponent's unarmoured back. His other armour included armoured greaves (necessitated by the smallness of the shield), a protector for his sword arm and shoulder, a protective belt above a loin cloth, and a helmet with a side plume, visor and high crest.

He and the hoplomachus, with his Greek equipment, were usually pitted against the murmillo, armed like a legionary, mimicking the opposition between Roman soldiers and their various enemies.

January 4, 2014

ACI Roman Gladiator Murmillo Flamma

From Wikipedia :
The murmillo (also sometimes spelled mirmillo or myrmillo, pl. murmillones) was a type of gladiator during the Roman Imperial age. The murmillo-class gladiator was adopted in the early Imperial period to replace the earlier Gallus, named after the warriors of Gaul. As the Gauls inhabiting Italy had become well-integrated with the Romans by the time of the reign of Augustus, it became undesirable to portray them as enemy outsiders the Gallus-class gladiator thus had to be retired.