A is for Ancient Wars, C is for Castle . . .

. . . except they are medievals, not ancients and there's no castle! These are the latest iteration of figures from Supreme, previously carried-by Toy Major and supplied to various others, they are currently being hawked by dozens of phantom brands and jobbing jobbers all over Amazon, evilBay and Alibaba.

I'm sure you've seen them and will instantly recognise them, and if you shop around you can get good deals, these cost me less than a tenner, delivered, I think (it was a while ago, this is another one which has been in the queue for over a year!), and to be fair to the premise of the title, there are many, many retail variations of these, from small bags such as these here, to huge castle play-sets with multiples of siege weapons and scores of figures.

The foot figures, I would describe these as Eastern European in overall look, the Livonian Crusades or the wars with the fledgling Russia, but painted-up they can slide into a late Dark Age; Norman, Anglo-Saxon or early medieval/Middle Age army, they all had a few 'spangen-helms' or Asiatic-looking pointy-pointy head-protector anointies!

Some pretty crude siege engines of the interactive hand/eye co-ordination infant learning type are included in the 'infantry' bag, nothing like other Supreme stuff, they may be bought-in, but I suspect just aiming at a different unit-price for a different price-bracket, as I've hinted, some of the all but anonymous sellers are practically giving the stuff away . . . changed priorities in China . . . in the end it's all politics!

The horses; three variations of the same basic sculpt and another rearing beast, all bearing a resemblance to other Supreme horse-production. Riders plug-in and also come as multiples of four different sculpts, but with only two colours each (more on that in the next post) the idea is to keep black-off-black, which limits the combinations slightly, especially with a small sample.

The locating hole in the horse, the ammunition basket/sled for the balista, the catapult fires a witch's broom! And the batch in the 'cavalry' pack were a much glossier plastic (two right hand figures) than the ones in the 'infantry' pack.

The back of the 'cavalry' pack's header card actually shows the older, painted, PVC version (the figures in this post are all polyethylene with - probably - polypropylene horses and siege equipment) as supplied to various end-users by Toy Major (among others) more on this in the next - and final - post in this sequence.