Dulce bellum inexpertis - Romans

Plodding along with progress on the Caesar's War project. The last two weekends have seen attention turn to the Romans.

While legionaries are plentiful, the light axillaries were looking a bit thin on the ground, as were extra command stands. The existing stocks were raided and extra command figures purchased. Sadly, the Freikorps 15 range which most of the existing Romans came from have been redesigned in many cases and the current website lacks pictures of the whole range. Rather than buy something blind, I had to hunt around to find who does suitable command figures.

There was not a lot of choice for Marian Romans. I ended up buying some of the Xyston figures as these had the correct standards if lacking in Centurions. While they are a bit larger than most, it was a case of make do.

I did find the last of the FK 15 Legionaries.

From the same range came slings and javelins (early unarmoured auxilia figures):

Some stray Minifigs Cretans were also enlisted:

Then the Legion command stands; each "Legion" will consist of a command stand, 4x stands of Legionaries, 1-2 x LI and possibly cavalry. So looking at available FK15 legion figures and existing command stands, another 5 command stands will give 8 Legions. With one eye on the Civil War, 2 were painted as "Pompeian" or "Optimates" and 3 as "Caesarian" or "Popoulares" using the schemes I had decided on long ago when raising 2x DBA armies; one in light purple and dark red/crimson the other in red, no doubt influenced by the maps in Terry Wise's  Battles for Wargamers.

So the Optimate faction:

And the Populares:

When time allows they will receive some ground work and basing.  There remains still some more bits to finish. Two more Legions need assembling from painted figures, there are more Germans and Celts to add as well as baggage / camps, villages, more trees to base, possibly ships and fortifications. Hopefully, leave in April will allow time to make a start on the actual campaign and battles.

Next weekend is Hammerhead. No doubt I shall bump into a few bloggers.