XI Legio III Cohort

 III Cohort XI Legio

The next cohort off the desk, the III cohort, again a hand painted vexillum. Another entry for the analogue painting challenge. 

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Matt

Legion XI, II Cohort

 II Cohort

The second cohort for the Legio, I have hand painted the vexillum, not that happy and I may revisit at some stage. More entries Analogue painting challenge. 

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Matt 

Roman XI Legion 1st Cohort

 XI Legion Claudia Pia Fidelis

Now for some legion posts to begin,  after this army has sat in my lead storage for at least 7 years as a swap with my great mate Colin for painting a army for him. With the Analogue Painting Challenge this year  I decided to get them done. Now after 5 weeks of painting over the coming weeks I will present to you the XI legion all based for Impetus and the majority are from the Foundry Range. I have 10 cohorts of 15 figures, not sure if I will do a second cohort for the 1st yet …. But I probably will. 

 I also have a Roman commission army so they will follow. So lots of Imperial Roman’s over the next month or so.   

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Matt

General commander on the Danube

 Commander on the Danube

The first piece of my Foundry Imperial Roman command dioramas, a Gaul being questioned about the local tribes…I have a few planned for the analogue painting challenge. The miniatures are all from the foundry range. Really happy with my result. 

General on the Danube

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Matt

Imperial Roman Eques

 Imperial Roman Eques Officer 

Another Roman off the desk, this time a commander for my Auxillia. The miniature is from the Foundry Imperial Roman Range. He will command my cavalry units! 

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Matt

Germanic Chieftain Maroboduus

The Great Crow 

Maroboduus was born into a noble family of the Marcomanni, a Suebi confederation tribe. As a young man, he was a hostage in Italy and under Emperor Augustus. The Marcomanni had been defeated and subjugated by the Romans in a 6 year campaign by 10 BC. In 9 BC, Maroboduus returned to Germania and became ruler of his people as a client and friend of the Romans. With the threat of further Roman expansion into the Rhine-Danube basin, Maroboduus led the Marcomanni to the area later known as Bohemia to be outside the range of the Roman influence. There, he took the title of king and organized a confederation of several neighboring Germanic tribes.

The miniature is from the Warlord Range, but is huuuuuge, 34mm head to eye, so it will not match their plastics and needs to be based separately. 

In early AD 6,  Tiberius launched a campaign against the Marcomanni, seeing the confederation with the Quadi as a threat. Tiberius, Legate Gaius Sentius Saturninus and Consul Legatus Marcus Aemilius Lepidus led an army of 13 legions, totaling around 100,000 men (65,000 heavy infantry legionaries, 10,000–20,000 cavalrymen, archers, and 10,000–20,000 civilians) against Maroboduus.