HaT 8057 Persian Light Infantry
[Production] Sprue Scans

(box art reproduced with kind permission)

(scanned at 72dpi & 100% - this is pretty much their actual size)

The Webmaster at Hat very kindly sent me a production sprue of their new HaT8057 Persian Light Infantry figures at the same time as their Persian Heavies (that are now on their way down under as I write).

These are nice figures and are very well researched. Take note of the number of miniatures on this sprue - 15 instead of the normal 12 that HaT usually put on their infantry sprues. They did this simply cause there were so many Persian lights to represent, the Persian empire being kinda big 'n all...

(Left to Right - Persian Slinger, Saka Infantrydude (nice hat!), Persian Slinger, Arachosian Infantryman)

(Sogdian Infantryman - check out the multi-purpose weapon
- either a javelin or an axe depending on which bit you chop off. Clever...)

(Close ups - aprox. 200%)

(Left to Right - Babylonian Archer, Persian Slinger, Persian Archer, Persian Slinger, Persian Archer)

(Left to Right - Babylonian Archer, Persian Archer, Persian Archer, Kissian Archer, Kissian Archer)

So you get...

• 4 Persian Archers (2 poses)
• 4 Persian Slingers (2 poses)
• 1 Arachosian Infantryfellow
• 2 Babylonian Archers (2 poses)
• 2 Kissian Archers (1 pose)
• 1 Saka Infantryman
• 1 Sogdian Infantryman

...per sprue. And that makes 15 miniatures per sprue, 60 per box.

Note, these guys are designed for the Later Achaemenid Persian armies and, as HaT themselves have pointed out...

Some of these light infantry figures may be compatible with Persian army which invaded Greece and fought with Athens and Sparta but generally the Persian infantry of the Greek conflict are not compatible with the Persian army of this period.

Still, that does mean that some of them (possibly the Babylonians and perhaps one or two of the Persians...?) could be mixed in with Zvezda's Early Achaemenid figures to fill out their 8Bw?

The bulk of the Later Achaemenid Persian armies were these light infantry types pulled from the poorer classes - conscript levies, armed servants, camp followers, that kind of thing. There could be huge numbers of 'em too; it has been estimated that at Gaugamela there were 100,000 Persian infantry. At Issus, Ptolemy estimated that Darius' army numbered 600,000. Most of them would have looked just like these fellows.

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