https://wargamewarrior.webs.com/apps/photos/ Indians Both units of cavalry https://wargamewarrior.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=192575151 192575151 3 of the 12 units of cavalry https://wargamewarrior.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=192575152 192575152 Close up of one element of an infantry unit https://wargamewarrior.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=192575153 192575153 Closer view of the infantry https://wargamewarrior.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=192575154 192575154 Closer view of the cavalry https://wargamewarrior.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=192575155 192575155 Another view of the infantry https://wargamewarrior.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=192575156 192575156 An overall view of the nightmare that are the chariots, have to be assembled, each with 6 crew, https://wargamewarrior.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=192575157 192575157 Another view of the chariots, I will have to fabricate some kind of yoke across the 4 horses for the shaft of the chariots to be connected with, probably with fuse wire. https://wargamewarrior.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=192575158 192575158 View of the chariot of Porus, King of all he surveyed. When I construct these, I may try to simulate the reins with cotton. https://wargamewarrior.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=192575159 192575159 Two of these bases are used with two elephant models to represent a unit of elephants in Piquet-Archon. https://wargamewarrior.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=199944743 199944743 These banners are paper with PVA glue to hold the folded shape. The designs were found online searching for "Indian Banners". These I assume, are intended as website graphics but with some chopping around make nice colourful flags with ancient looking wheel of life symbols. https://wargamewarrior.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=199944744 199944744 Indian cavalry seem to have been outnumbered and inferior to their Macedonian opponents at the battle of the Hydaspes. They do not seem to have been armoured to any extent but neither were they accomplished at light cavalry skirkish style fighting. https://wargamewarrior.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=199944746 199944746 There wasn't a huge choice available in 25mm figures and the 1st Corps ones looked the nicest. I did add some Essex Miniatures ones to these units just for the variety. They were mounted on extra 1st Corps horses which required a bit of surgery and filing; the Essex riders come with the saddle cloth attached. https://wargamewarrior.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=199944745 199944745 My first port of call for information about the Indians at the Hydaspes was the venerable "Armies of the Macedonian and Punic Wars" by Duncan Head. This revealed that the information available on shield designs was somewhere between sketchy and non-existent. I was unconvinced by the standard solution of cow hide patterns. In India? Really? A brief bit of research turned up illustrations of Mauryan Indian symbols from punch marked coins. As I had several dozen shields to add designs to I made up a sheet of transfers of some of the more interesting ones. https://wargamewarrior.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=199944747 199944747 One of the accounts of the battle of the Hydaspes has the Indian army being preceded by a statue of Hercules that they carry to the battlefield. https://wargamewarrior.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=199944748 199944748 https://wargamewarrior.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=199944749 199944749