Sunday, 11 February 2024

From BenitoV: Late Roman Cavalry Reinforcements (80 points)

Another block of my Saga Late Roman warband: a second light cavalry unit but this time with javelins instead of bows. 


The Saga list for this particular army is pretty flexible in how to organize the warband, and light units are very handy when you face mobile armies like Huns for example. The same applies to infantry, offering you different potential combinations, either of lightly armed men with throwing weapons (slings, bows or javelins) or the more heavily armoured legions useful for  face to face melees.



These are 28mm plastic models from the Gripping Beast range. As commented in a previous post, nicely designed, and being multipart you can have an almost infinite variation. A box with 12 mounted models was €29 in my local shop at Madrid, which I found an extremely attractive price/quality relation. Shields are decorated with transfers from Little Big Men range.

The post today is worth 80 points if I have my maths right (8 x 28mm models @10 points each = 80 points). I'm afraid next will be a busy week and would unlikely be around on Sunday, but nonetheless I'll be visiting the blog and watching the other contenders contributions.  Have all a great Sunday and week 

Great job once more here Benito! The work you put into these models is wonderful, especially those shields! 

Agreed on how SAGA works. It has been a while since I played it last, but being more versatile with your army can have great benefits! May this work to your favor in the future games!

80 pts to you!
Kyle


24 comments:

  1. Loving these Benito. I agree with you on both the quality and value of this GB kit, I’ve been working on some on these figures this challenge. Excellent work all around - the painting, posing, sheilds, horses and bases.

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  2. Beautiful figures Benito. Love the sheilds too.

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    1. Ray! Thanks for commenting. Hope your recovery progresses well. Take care

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  3. The great looking mounted Romans Benito, the colour choices work really well

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    1. Hopefully they are realistic too... but as Sir Ridley Scott would have said: "were you there? No, then shut up"

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  4. These look great Benito, nice work!

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  5. Fantastic unit. Nice weathering on the shields.

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  6. Beautiful cavalry, Benito. It's always the shields...

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    1. Shields... bases and banners... the holy trinity

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  7. Very nice Benito - love how dynamic the unit looks!

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    1. Thanks, the multipose options are great to add variety (and drama!)

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  8. Excellent work Benito. Your shields and posing of the models is really top notch.

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  9. Those really are lovely Benito

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