Having just finished one Roman army project, the obvious thing to do is to start another.
A few of us in our gaming group have fallen hard for the Infamy! Infamy! rules from Too Fat Lardies. They really are great, and I've had some fantastic games as a Roman Imperial player getting completely smashed by hairy Germans.
Paul O'Grady has been super keen to have a little Roman civil war, and after twisting my arm for a nanosecond or so, I agreed to join him in painting a Roman force for the civil wars of the late Republic. The Caesarian Starter Army box from Warlord Games was great for this project, with Paul chucking me a bunch of sprues and telling me to get cracking.
So here are the first two units of legionaries complete. It has been a nice change painting them after the more complex legionaries of the third century AD, and especially since I'm (ahem) ... using shield decals....
Decals? How the mighty have fallen!
ReplyDeleteThey look great! I’m very envious of your gaming group.
Oh, those are nice. And I think decal shields can make good figures look excellent, so fair play to you.
ReplyDeleteVery nice work Alan! Your Legionaries do defeinitely look as they'll give Paul's traitors a run for their Sestertiae
ReplyDeleteOh c'mon, its a bit early for name calling isn't it?
DeleteI haven't even crossed the Rubicon yet! :-)
Lovely looking cohort! The shields came out very nicely.
ReplyDeleteI love it when a cunning plan start coming together!
ReplyDeleteThey look really great mate, and you whipped them up in a flash! Looking forward to decimating them on the table :-)
Great Work!
ReplyDelete"Chucking me a few sprues" - this is a good way to get collection escalation going!
ReplyDeleteWell done, the figures are lovely.
They look amazing. Roman armies are on my bucket list to paint someday, but I seem to have caught the scifi bug hard lately so I'll mostly be focusing on that for the coming year, but these certainly provide some temptation...
ReplyDeleteGreat work Alan, they look the business for some Roman on Roman fights.
ReplyDeleteGreat looking Republican Romans!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Lovely stuff Alan. I think I may have to try this Infamy lark sometime (perhaps when all the hype has died down)
ReplyDeleteFantastic Romans. The shield decals are probably a bit easier than hand painting the designs, but they look okay.
ReplyDeleteNice work. Those shields are gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteThese look rather fine indeed!
ReplyDeleteGetting a few sprues often leads to a huge army 😁 nicely done ✔
ReplyDeleteRegards KenR
Just some sprues eh? We've all heard that before... They look great however, and Romans are exempted anyway. Very well done!
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