An ongoing project (ongoing as in started in 15mm in 1992), but mostly now 10mm Pendraken for Mortiem et Gloriam.
This project keeps adding to itself!
I revised my Imperial Roman list from Meglomaniacs and Warfare last year, ready for The London Grand Tournement next weekend (an open event, so what to take), and realised that certain factors were not working in my favour:
1) Catafracts - average catafracts absorb a lot of attention, but loooking back at their track record, die almost every game, lots of points tied up for no real return there.
2) Equites Illyricanii, they don't provide any extra scouting bonus within the army at present, and die too easily without melee experts.
3) This army gets a truck load of superiors, both cavalry and foot, so why not use them?
4) Exceptonal foot. Yes please!
This allows some hard hitting units, but man do they cost! This means subtle reinforcements that have to be, err, cheap to keep a suitable break point.
Legio Praesidienses, possibly VI Legion from Eboracum, two extra bases
Top view
My usual view
This led me to look deep in the Roman lists, to find an extra unit, and that was Auxilia Sagitarii, archers. Also started in 2012, so on weird basing.
With their original unit bases.
Larger
It also makes the Legio Praesidienses unit very large! As a superior unit, that's some staying power.
Deployed at full width!
Three extra stands to finish off a limitarii Auxilia unit (possibly the Ribchester garrison, shields conjectual), started in 2012! These will sit behind the original 30mm deep stands to make a 40mm depth unit.
These are a few extras to get my units up to six stands each ready for Meglomaniacs II this weekend.
Catafracts
Equites Sagitarri
Equites Illyricanii
This project keeps adding to itself!
I revised my Imperial Roman list from Meglomaniacs and Warfare last year, ready for The London Grand Tournement next weekend (an open event, so what to take), and realised that certain factors were not working in my favour:
1) Catafracts - average catafracts absorb a lot of attention, but loooking back at their track record, die almost every game, lots of points tied up for no real return there.
2) Equites Illyricanii, they don't provide any extra scouting bonus within the army at present, and die too easily without melee experts.
3) This army gets a truck load of superiors, both cavalry and foot, so why not use them?
4) Exceptonal foot. Yes please!
This allows some hard hitting units, but man do they cost! This means subtle reinforcements that have to be, err, cheap to keep a suitable break point.
Legio Praesidienses, possibly VI Legion from Eboracum, two extra bases
Top view
My usual view
This led me to look deep in the Roman lists, to find an extra unit, and that was Auxilia Sagitarii, archers. Also started in 2012, so on weird basing.
With their original unit bases.
Larger
It also makes the Legio Praesidienses unit very large! As a superior unit, that's some staying power.
Deployed at full width!
Three extra stands to finish off a limitarii Auxilia unit (possibly the Ribchester garrison, shields conjectual), started in 2012! These will sit behind the original 30mm deep stands to make a 40mm depth unit.
These are a few extras to get my units up to six stands each ready for Meglomaniacs II this weekend.
Catafracts
Equites Sagitarri
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