Saxon/Irish Army

I have just finished this army off this week, it is made up of three or four manufactures (as i like to mix up ancient and dark age armies a lot. As I all ready have three dark age armies and I am rapidly running out of storage, I am selling this army (I have sold the army since posting it this afternoon).

The army is designed to be quite flexible, late Saxon or Irish with three core units, two cavalry units one mercenary and one of mounted infantry, and a few skirmishers to finish it off, around 1800 points in WAB terms.

The standards are on printed paper with hand painted highlights particularly happy with the cavalry standard on the mercenary sarjents( they are all from Rays site, cheers mate!). The shields are a mix of LBM transfers and hand painted ones.

I really am looking forward to painting some more uniformed troops this week (7YW Prussians and Hanoverian's) as I am sick of irregular uniforms for the time being...then onto some moderns for a change and then maybe some more Roman auxilia.

cheers
matt

Aurthurian/Late Roman Infantry

Next up are some infantry for Daves army, a mix of foundry, musketeer and gripping beast figures with hand painted sheilds. The allied elements remain to be done, Gothic/Sarmation type cavalry, and two units of infantry and possibly a secondary legionary unit, i will know when he drops off the figs tomorrow.


Lanciarii Gallicani Honoriani




Sagitarii Lecti



and Celtae Iuniores

Late Roman Cavalry

This unit of cavalry are part of a army that I am painting for a great mate and opponent Dave, a member of GVS. They could be used as late Romans or Aurthurians for WAB. I also needed a opponent for my Saxons, Romans and Sassanids. These figures are a mix of Gripping beast and foundry with LBM transfers.

Leucosyri Hill tribesmen

Leucosyri hill tribesmen, the Leucosyri were termed White Syrians, and possibly settled in the Paphlagonia region by Alexander particularly around the Halys river, they were conquered by Pontus under Mithridates Ctistes (302–266 BC). I have decided to give these guys the sparra, and will use them as a allied warband for my Pontic army, the figures are crusader miniatures.




cheers
Matt

Ides Of march

Our Club Meeting for Ancients this year was another success with ten gamers attending with armies the theme was the rise of Rome so any army from 150BC to 150AD, Nathan from Elite Miniatures attended with his stall and Ian from War and Peace also, much spare cash was spent on the two traders, some of the other members attended to view the games.

As I had predicted the Roman Armies were in the majority for the WAB 2 tournament. The armies on the table included; Three Imperial Roman, One republican Roman, one Thracian, one Carthaginian, one Celt, one Successor, one Pontic and one Spartacus revolt army. I tried to match period gamers with historic counterparts so the gaming would be balanced. In the first round each general selected a 300 point light infantry army for his vanguard. Dave Imp Romans lost to Greg Celts, Nathan Successors lost to Micks Imp Romans, Matts Pontic’s lost to Chris Spartacus revolt, Craig Imp Romans lost to Guys Thracians, Bern’s Carthaginians lost to Louis Republican Romans.

The second game was an 1800 point game with the loser of the vanguard game to setup first, results were Dave Imp Romans lost to Greg Celts, Nathan Successors lost to Micks Imp Romans, Matts Pontic’s lost to Chris Spartacus revolt, Guys Thracians lost to Craig Imp Romans, Bern’s Carthaginians lost to Louis Republican Romans.
A great day out was had by all, I was not happy with my dice rolling on the day and won only one combat for the day and rolled like a dog for all of my morale rolls resulting in a trouncing of my Pontics.........oh well I will just get some more mercenaries!!!!!

I have decided to run a campaign this year so keep a look out for updates


Cheers
matt

I'm Spartacus!

With all of the Gladiator posts on TMP at the moment they reminded me that I had some Gladiators that I could paint up for my Spartacus WAB army so I pulled them out last week and painted them during the week, I still have a few more to do before the weekend and I will probaly post them later next week.

The figure I will use for Spartacus!



The Figure I will use for spartacus when the first one dies!



the next figure will use as Spartacus......



the next figure will use as Spartacus......


cheers
Matt

Roman markers

Some Roman Markers for my Imperial Roman army, as always a added addition to my Roman armies, I am yet to add sheilds to the bases I will do this at a later date!


Donkey supply and tentage carrier



Auxilia






Legionaries

Pontic casualty markers

I decided last week to do my casualty markers for WAB. When units are all cut down you are supposed to leave markers so the ground becomes literally "dead ground", and I always forget about this rule so I plan to go back and do some markers for all of my armies (and I may actually use those dead elephants I have!) not that my Pontic army wants to be all ridden down! Off the table this weekend I expect to get my next Pike block and some other bits and pieces, a customers order, some more Sassanids, more Pulp and some late Romans. The next thing to be done is work out which list to use from the Alexander book(probaly Persian).

cheers
Matt