From PeterD. Late Roman Cavalry for Limbo (80 points)

This is the first regular Tuesday post for me and it's a unit of Roman Heavy Cavalry for my Barbarian Conspiracy era project.  I had barely started these lads in the spring but put them aside in May once gardening season took over my evenings.  Hence I will claim the Limbo bonus points.

These are Victrix plastics, right out of the pack.  The Victrix Late Roman era plastics are really nice with tons of head and weapon options.  I've given this unit javelin quivers for a change since they'd be better at skirmishing or flanking barbarian hordes than charging them frontally.  We've used To The Strongest in the past with our ancient games, but I might try to give Midgard another go (our first try was a disaster, down mainly to me).

I haven't given these a unit label yet because I am still waffling over what unit name to give them.  There's a number of potential units listed for the Comes Britanniae and Comes litoris Saxonici per Britanniam.  I've run out of possible cavalry shield emblems for the units stationed in Britannia according to the Notitia Dignitatum so I winged a star pattern based on similar shield shown elsewhere in the ND.  This was my first painting since May so I was really rusty on my freehand shields, but they look almost passable from far enough away.  Actually having looked at the photos that I took, the whole unit looks like I've not painted any 28mms in 7 months, but gotta start somewhere....

I found my lead and plastic pile in complete disarray and I have no idea what's coming down the pipeline from me over the challenge.  However, expect some more Late Romans and foes, tiny ships and small Napoleonics.

That's 6 mounted figures plus the Circle bonus of 20 for a total of 80 points.

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Always great to see more Late Romans hit the table Peter!

I like the approach with javelin quivvers - I usually forget that ancient cavalry are not knight style shock units. An error that Alan usually (and correctly) punishes me for without mercy I might add...)

- Paul