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Tuesday, 20 January 2015

From IanW - 15mm Essex Roman Archers (80 Points)

I really want to make god use of this years Challenge to actually put some mileage into the Dominate Army that I started in last years challenge. Well it was not to difficult to beat the one unit painted up during and post challenge last year but I manage to keep the wagon rolling with a further increase in the firepower of the army.

I miscounted as I really need just the one more base of light bow so will get a couple prepped and onto the table over the next week or so giving me enough painted to act as part of the heavy infantry.

These actually have the cloth detail sculpted onto the figures, quite an achievement in 15mm. I would have liked a couple of different poses to break up the look a little but these were what was available when the army was originally bought way back when.

I'm guessing that my original thought of the slingers having swords that were too big was incorrect as these guys also have rather large straight swords, makes me think of Crocodile Dundee.

To go with these are eight bases of medium bow infantry. I have not tried medium bow before so it will be interesting to see how they work in Field of Glory as they should be able to dish out some pain but being medium infantry and just bow armed I can see them being butchered in melee.

Here are the two units painted earlier in the challenge with their bow added, not sure they will be worth the points will have to experiment. I can use up to four bases of light bow away from the heavy infantry but that would be instead of the slingers painted up a couple of weeks ago.

So eight bases of light and eight of medium amounts to forty figures for 80 points. Quite a grab but the figures were a little more tricky to paint than they look.

From Curt:

These look marvelous Ian. I really like the pale blue you went with for their tunic trim - they really visually pop as a unit. Also, the last shot of the force as it stands is wonderful (my favourite is still that legionnaire unit with the red and blue shields).

Finally, this unit will give you enough points to achieve your 1K target - well done Ian!