Equites Batavi iuniores for Alasdair

18 15mm Later Roman Cavalry, as a prize for winning the MeG competition at Campaign in May.
They arrived with the brief of 'These are a unit of elite cavalry, taken from the central Italian field army and temporarily assigned to an utterly corrupt governor of North Africa'.

A quick dive into the Notitia Dignitatum for shield patterns, based on the amazing research here, the issue is that most of the cavalry units in the central commands have rather plain shield patterns (one argument for this is that they saw more active service, so didn't have time to come up with elaborate designs like the limitarii units on the borders), but looking at Alasdair's brief, it was pretty easy to see that the Equites Batavi iuniores were the junior unit in the list, so would be sent off first, and had the most fun shield designs too!

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