The General's stand is primarily made up of Essex figures, from their command pack, and does not have armored horses so as to distinguish it from the rest of the cavalry stands.

The heavily armored Guard Cavalry were one of the few of the Gladiator miniatures to make it into the final army. The lamellar armor didn't quite turn out as I had expected (or hoped), ending up looking more like a flat black than anything. Unlike many of the figures in the rest of the army, these have all had their spears replaced with piano wire.

The Mongolian horde consisted almost entirely of archers mounted on very light and fast horse. They were fond of hit-and-run tactics and of letting loose volley fire then pulling back from slower foot troops.

Again, a mix of Gladiator and Essex figures, you can really tell the sizing difference between the two in a lot of cases.

Of note is the use of the Woodland Scenics "Snow" flocking material, which I highly recommend. It gives a very nice coverage and it's granularity is such that the snow effect comes across nicely. So nice, in fact, that I used it for the penguins in the Winged Kingdom of Aves.

This element option represents the fact that the Mongolian hordes did have siege artillery present in their army structure.

Since it was never common for the siege weapons to be used in actual battle, I have opted to not make a siege piece for the army.

The catapults were instead primarily used for such unsavory practices as beseiging cities, often throwing the decaying heads of fallen foes behind the town walls.

The foot troops for the Mongolian camp were taken from the Gladiator army pack. In DBA 1.1, the Mongolian lists included a number of foot troops for use with the mounted contingent. Once the list was upgraded to 2.0, I had little use for the foot, save as camp defenders.

Normally I would have included a characteristic Mongol yurt tent, but I was having trouble at the time finding good resin cast tents. Unfortunately, by the time I'd located one, the Mongols had experienced their now legendary 8-to-nothing defeat, and were pretty much shelved. Someday, perhaps, they'll see combat again as a triple-sized Big Battle DBA army.