More Late Romans

 Two more units of Late Roman Auxilia with bows cobbled together from some old units of Auxilia and archers with two newly painted officers added. These are for the Western Armies.

Update

 I've started cataloguing all my stuff on pages within the blog, starting with Late Roman Armies for "To The Strongest".

I'm currently carrying on with these and my Peninsular War armies. I was going to do more stuff for the War of 1812 with the possibility of a Sharp Practice Campaign in the summer but, given the current psycopathic activities of a certain head of state, it would be too close to home. 

Elbows Up!

 

Even More Stuff

I spent most of my hobby time this week painting up these Late Roman infantry from Fighting 15s. They are the old Gladiator Games figures, but I believe they were originally from a German range. All that's needed now is flockage, tuftage and varnishage.

This Late Roman Legion has been rebased, but the trumpet and officer are new.

I need to replace the old paper chimneys with carved xps ones and put proper shingles on the roof of this War of 1812 building. It looks like some of the paint needs attention too. I've temporarily put the polystyrene blanks in 

The Late Roman project got more out of hand when I bought these from EBay. They are from the same painter as the last lot of Auxilia, and I have 12 light cavalry coming too. I've rebased them and they are also waiting for flock, etc.

More Stuff Finished

Finished

Duke of York and Sir Thomas Erpingham

[The edges of the flags have been painted!!]

Late Roman Legions for TTS and HC (Rebased)

Frankish Command for TTS and HC

Rebased a few single figures to complete this unit:

15th Dragoons

Blunders and Orders

I was going to order some figures to replace a couple of auxilia units for my Late Romans, when I spotted these rather nice old range Essex which match my other units on EBay. I would just need to rebase them and add three command figures to each unit. They arrived really quickly and I rebased them................

As well as the command figures I also needed some infantry to finish my Gothic contingent and some archers to complete a French unit for the HYW. I put the order into Essex and half an hour later realised that I had forgotten to add the command figures for the Auxilia. I believe this particular double six applies to all wargameers' orders and appears to be a fundamental law of nature like Relativity, and the disappearance of at least one sock in the wash.

Anyway, I've managed to get these Roman archers rebased.

They are on 40mm x 30mm bases and I've decided on the following system for basing for "Hail Caesar" and "To The Strongest":-

Infantry on 40mm x 30mm bases

Hoplites 8 figures

Heavy Infantry 6 figures

Medium Infantry 5 figures

Light Infantry 4 figures

Skirmisher Infantry 2 figures

Cavalry on 40mm x 40mm bases

Heavy and Medium Cavalry 3 figures

Light Cavalry and Horse Archers 2 figures.

I'm not sure whether I'm going to put 4 Cataphracts on a base or leave as 3

On the WIP front, the 15th Dragoons are still progressing but are a real pain, When I do the 25th I am going back to a black undercoat with a white drybrush and I believe the young, cool people call this method "slap chop". Us old farts have been doing it for years and calling it "dry brushing white over a black undercoat", because we didn't have to worry about snappy titles for YouTube videos.

 

February 11th 2024

Finished

Spanish house carved out of EPS with plastic tiles and wood "bits". The windows are sliced up dice holders.

This will go with this previously finished build done in the same way

and this piece made of PVC foamex,

to make this 150mm x 150mm built up area:

I'm trying to get my Spanish buildings to look more like those around Fuentes De Onoro. These were taken on out tour last year:

The old bridge has been replaced by this concrete monstrosity

Work in progress

Continuing with the French 15th Dragoons

(there is some progress, honest)

Games

Dave, the Northumbrian Wargamer and I decided that the Coa game had gone as far as it could with the Soldiers of Napoleon rules. We had reached the point when the Light Division was going to have to start to run like hell to the bridge and, to be honest, we didn't think there were many sets about that would cater for that. It was a great game though.

We are now playing a 1813/14 French vs Prussian game with Dave's 28mm figures and the S.O.N. rules.