The second Roman legion is painted and will be
varnished tonight. All in all, the tempo is moving along which can mean one of
two things, I am looking forward to using these or the music playing in the
background really grooves. Maybe it’s both.
Between painting spurts I have cleaned and based the
final half of the consular army, the Latin legions.
The DBA 3.0 army lists give the Polybian player the
option to choose either “fast” 3Ax or “solid” 4Ax for the Latin troops. I
selected the 4Ax option for my Hispanic campaign as Livy mentions the addition
of mercenaries raised to fill the mobile role.
Old Glory offer allied infantry and cavalry and calculating
what was needed, I ordered seven packs; one Roman command, one each Roman and
allied cavalry, one each Roman velites, hastati and principes and one allied
triarii. After allotting the figures to their proper legions, extra Roman
figures were used to fill the vacant allied ranks; there being little
difference in weaponry, and I replaced the pilum for spear to convert eight principes
to triarii.
All Roman figures used for the Latin legions were
given plumage built up from Milliput to give them a uniform appearance. Bottom line, every figure ordered is now used
for the consular army. I need order one general officer to base with four foot
command figures to make the third commander.
Armies of
the Macedonian and Punic Wars by
Duncan Head
I recently ordered by copy
from Amazon UK and am very pleased with the new format; I do hope the other
books will follow in the same manner. The book is more compact than the older
WRG publications and the printing is now larger which would account for the
increased number of pages (353). There are two introductions, the one for 2016
is 11 pages long and details the significant changes based on research over the
past 30 years. The supplementary bibliography also reflects additional research
done over the same time period, I for one I am grateful for the extra references
of use for this project.
Cheers,
Hello, long time reader and customer. I wanted to ask if there was any chance you might add a follow by email widget to your blog. I would love to have each update sent as they occur. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteJeff,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment.
When I started blogging in 2009 I thought simply “following” would automatically do that.
The system seems to have changed due to spammers and such.
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Cheers,
Robert