Imperial Roman: Army Overview

Just wanted to make a quick update.
I took what I have in my army so far and just took a picture, and here it is.

It's starting to look like something now, soon barbarians everywhere should tremble in their boots!

Imperial Roman: Auxilia III

So I've finally completed my two units of light auxilia, this has taken some time, mostly because I was an idiot and first only made enough miniatures to do two bases, for some reason I thought they was supposed small... But no... So I had to paint some more but here they are!

I've made these by combining some parts from Warlord Games and their celts and some many parts form Wargames Factorys celts and some of their vikings as well. So, there is quite a mishmash of different things =)

Overall they turned out ok, the Wargames Factory bits are not the best, there isn't that much details to use and well... They are quite bad, but since I had them I thought I should use them.

But enough of that, lets show some pictures

First unit

And the second unit

Also took a little picture of the two units and my other auxiliary unit

Right now then I'm a bit stuck, I have more Romans to paint but I placed an order for some metal command models of different kinds, and they have been delayed and should arrive in 3-5 week. So until then I'll pause this project and look at another little thing I have fooled some other people in my local gaming club into joining.
More on that in another post :)

Imperial Roman: Auxilia II

I've now completed the second unit from my Auxiliary box. In this unit I used most of the metal command miniatures that you received in the box, and I've also made some slight conversions by using a few left over swords from legionaries and added them to the auxilia minis, just to make them a bit different and have a more "close combat" unit that has already thrown most of their spears or have had them rendered useless by the close fighting.

Some pictures is needed I think;

This also brings my first command to completion if you see to the little army list I posted here. Next on my table is a few miniatures I'm going to use as my light auxilia unit. It's going to be a more kind of "hired help" kind of unit.

Imperial Romans: Legionaries III

New year, new unit. So this is my third unit of legionaries and what I think is going to be the first one in a new command. To this command I'm thinking of adding another auxiliary unit and then call it done.


My thought is right now to do an army with a composition something like this:

• Commander 
• Legionaries x 2
• Medium auxiliary x 2

• Commander
• Legionaries x 2
• Raw recruits 
• Auxiliary archers x 2
• Small unit

• Commander
• Legionaries x 2
• Light auxiliary x 2

• Commander
• Medium auxiliary cavalry x 2
• Numidian cavalry
• Skrimishers with slings x 2

This if of cause going to change, probably something like fifty times before I'm done, but at least it's a goal for now. This list is made up from the Hail Caesar book, and the EIR list they have in there.

Anyway, pictures of new unit that you are really here to see =)

In this unit I've added some parts from the veteran sprue, so some damaged shields and extra armour here and there. I also got a vellum from a Wargames Factory kit I had out in my garage, I think it's from their Celt Warband box. It made an excellent marker for my command in any case.

Next up I'm trying something for a light auxiliary unit and I also have the other part of my medium auxiliary unit in the works. So lots of things in the works, hopefully something of it will be done as well =)

Imperial Romans: Legionaries II

So right before all the holidays I got another unit of my legionaries done. They are done with all the new spiffy sprues I got form Warlord so now they have a proper command unit!

Other than that I wanted to create a unit that was all using their pila, so that I did, all the swords will go towards another unit.

Other than that, they are painted with mostly Vallejo colours, one layer, Army Painters dark wash and some highlights with the base colour on some parts and then they are done. Looks good enough on the table, but it's not the minis I would take to a painting competition ;)

As this is now completed I thought it was time for a small "army" picture, with what has been done so far. It's not much, but it's a start,

With this I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, I'll do my best to have something new when the new year isn't that old.

Imperial Romans: Legionaries I

And my first unit of legionaries is completed. In true Asterix style they have green clothes and blue shields with no decoration. Well I have chosen not to have any decorations, depending on what album you read or movie you see there is some instances where they have some decoration, but I'm not going to freehand any such nonsense on what will probably turn out to be at least a hundred+ shields.

The command in this unit is the centurion you get with the Hail Caesar rules if you buy them direct form Warlord, and I have to say it was a joy to paint him. His base is made up of rocks, broken shields and equipment, it's really cool so I recommend that you get this miniature if you don't already own the rules, even if you end up with some other army it's just plain fun to paint.

Other than that here is what you came for, the pictures!

Imperial Romans: Commanders

I had some commanders laying around, I think I got them at the same time as I bought my copy of Hail Caesar quite some time ago. Anyway, I have them so I paint them =)

The miniatures are Warlords Julius Caesar model and Emperor Marcus Aurelius.
They are quite nice minis, not too much flash on them, but Marcus and his horse are very small, there isn't any problem when compared with the other Roman miniatures but he looks a bit funny next to some of my Napoleonic British miniatures I have on my painting table at the same time.

Other than that there isn't much to say, I painted them kind of the same way I paint most of my minis now, base colour, wash and highlight with the base colour again. But since this is commanders after all, they got another highlight or two depending on what colour I used. So they look a bit nicer than my regular troops.

I'll soon have my first units of legionaries done and ready for display, just need to get the bases done.

Imperial Romans: Auxilia

So I've finished painting up my first unit of the auxilia that I reviewed last week.
I've based them on 40x40mm bases, just as my napolionics, but as we have limited space on our club, and we'd like to be able to play on a standard 4'x6' table each unit is only 3 bases wide.

When it comes to painting I took my inspiration from Asterix and I clad them in green with blue shields, I really like that look and it's a nice little break from the mostly red legion troops you see around.

But here is some more pictures

Next up is some legionaries, I have some in basing, and then I have some command minis in the works as well

Review: Warlord Games Early Imperial Romans Auxiliaries

I recently got sucked into wanting to get me a Hail Caesar army, I have had thoughts about getting myself a Greek army, but to do that I wanted some Victrix miniature, and for some reason they are more or less impossible to get hold off in the stores I frequent.

So I found myself surfing around and the Black Friday sales was up on Warlord Games and well.. I got me some Romans =)

While I wait for the order with plastic sprue goodness to arrive to me I visited a local store and found a box of Auxiliaries to take home.

In the box you find 5 sprues of 4 soldiers each, for some reason each sprue was in its own little plastic bag, don't know why, but there you have it. To this you get a little zip-lock bag containing 4 metal command models. You get the choice of 2 different standards for the standard bearer, either you get the nice one with discs and leaves you see here, or you get a standard with the emperors face.

For myself I used them both to create 2 units and get some sort of command in the other one.

The metals are quite good, but there is a lot of flash, you get two shields for your command and each of them had at least 8 points with flash, on each side... It wasn't hard to remove, but boy was there a lot.

To this you also get a sheet with transfers to add to your shields, they are transparent, so you still need to paint the shield underneath, something I understand you don't have to do with their legioneer transfers.

The plastic figures then, well they are nice, hardly any moldlines at all, they fit together without any problems and there are not many pieces to handle

Front of sprue

Back of sprue

In this simplicity I myself kind of find a problem, you can't really do anything to the miniatures, the only option you have is heads, and from more than a few inches away they kind of look al the same so without some extensive cutting and converting you will have five of each model and they will look the same. And you don't get any extra pieces so any conversions will have to come from some place else.

They are also a bit "wild" in that they are a bit of a challenge to get to rank up, I'm going to place mine on 4 by 4 on 40mm by 40mm bases, I would not like to be the person that bases them individualy and then try to rank them all up to play.

In they end though, they are nice miniatures, they are well made, they are easy to paint and looks good when you get them ranked up in a unit. I have the first 12 of them in the works and will soon show them so that you can form your own opinion of how they look when arranged in a unit.

I'll give this box 6 out of 10 pilums.