From Millsy: 28mm Republican Romans (300 points)

Hi All,

Time to start cranking out some points as I return to work on Monday morning [sob!]. Once that happens painting time will be much curtailed so I needed to make a decent dent in the prepped mini pile beforehand.

This is the start of an army for both SAGA: Age of Hannibal and To the Strongest! These two (in progress) consular legions will eventually be joined by at least one, probably two, allied Italian legions. These fine fellows are Victrix plastics and are based singly for Age of Hannibal, however will be supplied with movement trays for To the Strongest! in future to preserve my sanity. The Allied legions will be multi-based only as I won't need them for Age of Hannibal.

Each consular legion will ultimately have the typical organisation of 1 x triarii, 2 x hastati and 2 x principes, plus an allocation of velites. The red legion is currently missing only the principes, whilst the yellow and missing both the principes and the velites. I'm waiting on more miniatures to arrive (the ones in pectoral armour) to build the missing blocks for these two legions. Finally, there will also be some equites romani and equites latini to and maybe a ballistae round things out.

The eagle eyed amongst you will notice 72 miniatures, however 12  of the velites were painted prior to the Challenge starting as a test. That means in total this submission is 60 miniatures for a tidy 300 points.

Hope you like them!

Cheers,
Millsy

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Wow! What a terrific paint bomb Millsy! Such nice, clean brushwork. Those vibrant shields just shout out, 'Look, we're Romans, just come try and stomp on us with your big elephants, you nasty Carthaginians!' Well, that's what they shout in my mind anyway. 

I look forward to seeing this legion grow with your coming reinforcements, Millsy!  Happy belated birthday and I hope you have an easy first-day back at work.

- Curt