Land of the Lead: Romans

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Sunday, July 20, 2014

HAIL CAESAR GAME - TEUTOBURGER WALD 9AD

Here is a Hail Caesar game we played today - based on Teutoburger Wald 9AD. The Romans marching blissfully through the forest, listening to the birds twitter and admiring the beauties of nature.

Suddenly smelly unwashed hairy people appear from the forest - who can they be, what do they want?

Without even a pretense at good manners the ugly brutes rush forward and demand the Legionaries pay them undivided attention - they really were crude fellows, no manners at all.

Despite every effort to be polite to them the hairy oafs kept badgering the Legionaries.

In the end enough was enough and severe words had to be spoken to the brutes, why would not they display some good manners and stop making so much noise!

Even so the smelly buffoons just would not go away - it was becoming both tedious and annoying. One group of louts kept insisting that their whining complaints be listened to - on and on they went badgering without a pause.

But in the end it all got too much and even the most polite Legionary could stand it no longer - so out flew the pilums and in went the gladius.

Despite the greatest encouragement to desist and depart the uncivilized boors would not take the hint and had to be killed ... such a tedious exercise.

Still hooting and hollering, the noisy mob were driven away finally clearing the road and enabling the Legion's nature walk to continue.

Friday, July 11, 2014

54mm ROMAN LEGION

Here is some of my collection of 54mm Romans. My long term project is to build up a Legion with support troops and an army of 'Barbarians' to fight them. What I would like to do is to put on a public display game using these figures, it would look magnificent! The Legionaries are my own figures cast from a master figure I had commissioned from a Master figure maker in the UK. Standard bearers, Centurion, Tribune and Caesar are from a variety if suppliers.

Thursday, May 22, 2014

HAIL CAESAR - ROMAN vs. ROMAN

We played a Roman vs. Roman Hail Caesar game on Thursday night. Here are some photos of the glorious event. All the figures are 28mm.

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

The Boy General - "Puppy"

I've been after a general for my Romans for some time now. A hunt through my unpainted figure box revealed just the thing! The Boy General. Called Catulus by the troops- meaning "Puppy". Elevated to leadership through privilege and not experience- the pup has yet to prove his detractors in the field of battle.
I'm not sure what make the figure is or where it even came from, but he would certainly need help reaching the saddle!

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Odds and Sods

Here are some bits and pieces from the painting table of late. I have been painting a few figures just for the fun of it!

Some Crusader Miniatures Nubians- All crusader figures seem to paint up so well and easily too! When TigerZouave visits next these guys can join his collection!

Here are some odd Warlord Roman I put together to form a command base of sorts

I bought this guy from ebay- missing an arm. The arm and lance were from my bits box. I'm not sure if the Romans Auxiliary Came corps used lances like this- Maybe this guy was an innovator?

Some Black Tree Athenians. I have been painting quite a few Greeks lately. I must take a pic of them en-masse

Sunday, April 15, 2012

More Romans and a few hairy Celts!

I have been a bit quiet of late, but that is because I have been slowly going mad painting Roman Red!
I am close to finishing an army. In addition to the Warlord figures I displayed in an earlier post, I have added some more Black Tree figures. I really like the Black Tree Ballista figures and their western Roman Archers. I am working on an Auxiliary Cavalry unit and then they should pretty much be done. All infantry are based on 40x40mm bases. This was not for any particular ruleset, but to offer the greatest flexibility when playing. Also below is another diversion! War and Peace games had a ridiculous sale on the Warlord Celts plastic set, which I could not resist. These figures are great fun to assemble and paint. There is plenty of scope to individualize them and a real dynamic feel to the poses. I don't intend on building and army of Celts, but as a contrast to the regimented Romans they were a fun project.

32 Hairy Brutes looking for a fight!

2 Black Tree Scorpions and a larger ballista - sorry about the dodgy photo

The boys with the eagle must be in charge!

48 Black Tree Romans.

The Little Big Men shield transfers really come up well.

Centurion 'bung-eyes' leads them into battle

Black Tree Western Archers. These are really nice miniatures to paint.

Some very old Citadel Roman Eastern Archers- courtesy of tigerzouave!

Wargames Factory plastic Roman cavalry. These guys are hard work to paint. The detail is not great at all and really needed work to get them to this stage. I have some Warlord Metal Command figures to add to them to hopefully make the unit look better.

The General!

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Rome wasn't built in a day.

Teacher: Why did the Romans build straight roads?
Pupil: So their soldiers didn't go around the bend!

Here are my efforts over summer. Im still painting Gladiators, but I have begun assembling an early Imperial Army contingent just in case I play Hail Caesar one day!
They are mostly based on Warlords Box sets. I have painted up the Roman Legionary set, the Veterans kit and the Auxiliaries box set. Funnily, the Auxiliaries are bigger in size than the Legionaries. They were great to paint too. I have based all figures on 40mm x 40mm bases. Im looking to add another couple of units, but will have to wait until they arrive in the mail! I was using a different camera today and backgrounds, so some of the results are not quite as good as normal.