Red Box 154 1/72 Byzantine Empire Byzantine Cataphracts Set 2

The cataphract was a very heavily armoured horseman who usually rode a heavy horse also wearing partial or complete armour. The combination made for a warrior that was very difficult to injure and very difficult to stop once they got going, so they were the ultimate hammer blow against an enemy. Such fearsome warriors were employed by many ancient civilisations, not just the Eastern Romans (also known as Byzantines), but they were of course very expensive to create and so tended to be the core of an army but only a minority of its troops. Their most feared weapon was the kontos, a lance of about four metres in length, which would develop into the lance of the high medieval period, producing the mounted European knight which is so recognisable even today.

Specifications

• Contents: 12 figures, 12 horses
• Poses: 6 poses, 6 horse poses
• Material: Plastic (Medium Consistency)