Painted in February

Was another low production month.

Some Blacktree Design crossbowmen for use in crusader skirmishing and finished painting the last few figures from my Warriors of Carthage box from Victrix Miniatures.

Crusader crossbowmen

Saracen crossbowmen

Romanised Infantry for my Carthaginians.

2 characters and their retinues for Clash of Spears

A total of 22 Figures, all 28mm in size.

The yearly total is:
     Vehicles (1/72 scale):              0
     Artillery (28mm):                    0
     Infantry/Cavalry (1/72 scale): 0
     Infantry/ Cavalry (28+mm):    55
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             Total 55

Less than February of last year, even not counting the 1/72 Scale figures.

Imperial Romans and Gallic forces

   One of the occasional attendees of my local gaming group [The Historical Gaming Association of London (Ontario)] was divesting himself of some figures, his new dedicated wargames room in his new country house would 't have room for figures he had not used in over 5 years. He offered them to any member that wanted them, I eventually offered to take them as I had heard of S.P.Q.R. and thought this would be a good way to get a head start on two warbands for that rules set


   Here is what I got from him they are all painted, they are better than any of mine, (he's even painted their fricken eyes).

  I then saw some demo videos of S.P.Q.R. and knew that is was not a set of rules I wanted to play.

   A few months later I saw an announcement for Clash of Spears and was relieved that I would be able to use these figures for those rules.  The rules do not cover Imperial Rome... Yet. But they claim play-test armies for Clash of Spears that cover Imperial Romans and Gauls are on they way, then I will be able to use them.

We will start with the Gauls a mix of metals and plastic.

 The plastics

The metals

    So a fair few figures (about 100), they were based for Hail Caesar, so I had to first de-base then re-base for my use. I am thinking I can use the Gauls as to fight for and against my Carthaginians.

   Here are the Romans, they are all metal, a mix of Wargames Foundry, Front rank and others (he couldn't remember).

There are well over 400 Romans.

A rough estimate is that they are almost a $1,000 worth of figures.