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Monday, 25 January 2021

AlanD - Into the Hall of Traps (40 points)

All these Romans I've been painting need some field fortifications! And what better way to ruin the impetus of a barbarian charge with a field of lilia. As described by Caesar in his Gallic Wars, these 'lilies' were conical pits with a stake in the bottom of each, laid out in a checkerboard pattern.

As the pits were carefully camouflaged, modelling the traps is a compromise If the legionaries knew their trade, the base should just look like an empty patch of ground. That would, however, be boring on the tabletop, so I've made them more obvious than they would be to a Gallic warband.