David Bickley's Wargames Blog

The occasional ramblings of an average gamer, journeyman painter, indifferent modeller, games designer, sometime writer for Wargames Illustrated and host of games in GHQ.



Friday 3 July 2015

The army of Baldinus the Usurper

While the last post did n't attract much in the way of comment, ever the optimist, I thought that I'd post some pictures of the other half of my late C4th Roman collection. With the exception of the Huns, painted by Matt, and one minor command group which I painted, they were all painted for me by Andy Dumelow.
The figures are all from the Foundry ranges sculpted by the Perrys ~
Baldinus' army takes the field















Baldinus greets his generals



















Auxilia and a bolt thrower
















Warband or more Auxilia










Heavy Archers














Albinus commands the cavalry arm













Hun Allies, Heavy cavalry on the left, Light Cavalry on the right


















I shall certainly be adding to my collection for this game as I enjoy Neil Thomas' rules from his Two Hour Wargames stable. We have used both the Classical stats and those for the Dark Ages in our games and enjoyed both types very much. I am prepared to accept the level of abstraction he works into them for the ease of play and the way games flow to a conclusion, often suddenly.

12 comments:

  1. Lovely Late Romans and Huns!

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  2. Very nice, didn't comment because I was making comments on the Lead adventures.

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    1. Thanks! I'll let you off this once then...

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  3. Grand looking array, pity they don't fight as good as they look ;-)

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    1. All down to Baldinus I fear, oh, and the dice gods!

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  4. Fantastic looking collection.... great to see some Hun's given an outing.
    Cheers
    Stu

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  5. They look great, a splendid army with a fantastic command stand!

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  6. Cracking looking army David! It makes me want to get back on my Late Romans!

    Christopher

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    1. Ah, but will they still fit I wonder? I'll get my coat!

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