Roman Cavalry

This will finish up the backlog of posts for my infamy project bringing me up to date. I now have enough Roman infantry so decided to turn my attention to some supporting cavalry and leader to give the Romans a chance to flush out some ambushes and close down dangerous deployment points, counter enemy cavalry and to get behind the German lines if possible.

At this point I really don't need to add more to the Romans, but as you know we all like more options so I have no doubt this force will continue to grow and grow so as to cover as many situations as possible. It never really ends does it?

The figures are from A&A and quite enjoyable to paint, but as is the case with all cavalry in my experience takes quite some time to finish. The shields are hand painted which I like to do if the design isn't overly complicated as I find I prefer the stronger colors tones in paint then transfers. The lines are not as perfect as transfers, but richer in color so that's the trade off.

The paints are my usual for ancients which is Foundry with some Vallejo and MIG pigments for the dusting. The whole collection is on sabot bases which I tend to do for all my skirmish gaming pre modern including leaders. Leaders are on sabot bases for two reasons for raising their height closer to the unit and to put the leader into the unit itself if I want to.

Up next will be my French and Indian War backlog of posts. I hope to get some in before the challenge or at least photographed because then my time will be spent painting and photographing new units. Nick has challenged me to see who can paint the most points which will likely be him, but who knows maybe I'll pull a rabbit out of the hat and beat him.

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Germanic punch!

 

Some more backlog of finished units for the blog with a unit of fanatics and a couple units of slingers to support the German warriors mobs for my Infamy project. The fanatics are great at knocking holes into roman formations and the slingers shots are especially effective vs armor thus they create a German punch.

I wanted the fanatics to look really savage so I used the naked packs and gave them some black charcoal body paint and wicker shields to convey that primal theme that will stand them out from my other Germans.

For the slingers I thought they would be the young warriors of the tribe so I bought the Celtic slinger packs and gave them light beards to give a more Germanic look to them.

The figures are all from Wargames Foundry and are very fun to paint so I recommend buying them if your thinking of collecting Ancient Germans. They are expensive, but frankly still the best imho.

I still of another Infamy unit to post and then a few other things to post then I think I'll be caught up, but probably not finished before the challenge so some of that might get posted during the challenge in between units that I'll be doing for the challenge itself, but I'll make a note of that.

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Miniature Company-Wargames Foundry