'Empire' From Millsy: Late Roman Infantry (475 points)

G'day All,

The Battle of Adrianapole (aka Battle of Hadrianopolis) in 378 AD was a pretty significant setback for the Eastern Roman Empire. A crushing victory for the Visigoths, it resulted in the death of Emperor Valens and was a catalyst for the eventual fall of the Western Roman Empire as well.

As such it seems an appropriate subject for my entry for the Empire Theme Round. I've used the opportunity to kick off my Eastern Roman Army with eight units of infantry and a couple of attached generals.

Ostensibly for To the Strongest! they can be used for any rule set that uses units on single large bases. I've been painting these since the first minute of the Challenge this year, and using other entries as a breather.

In total we have...

• 2 x armoured Legionarii (legionaries, duh!)
• 2 x unarmoured Sagittarii (archers)
• 1 x skirmishing Sagittarii (archers)
• 1 x skirmishing Funditores (slingers)
• 1 x skirmishing Lanciarii (javelinmen)
• 2 x deep Franci (allied warriors)

Legionarii

Legionarii

The attached generals are on small half-moon bases so they can be used with a unit or left off depending on army composition at the time.

Sagittarii

Sagittarii

These are all Gripping Beast plastics and although the paint up nicely and are fun with the brush in hand they're an absolute bugger to base. All stand on a 2mm+ thick plinth that means you have to build up all the ground around them to avoid it looking like everyone is standing on a hillock. Not so bad with the lights but increasingly hard with the larger units and frankly a nightmare with the deep warriors.

Lanciarii

Funditores

There's shield decals from Little Big Man studios which were mostly OK although getting the backing off some of the older ones proved a bit tedious. They look great though so worth the effort.

Franci

Franci

All up this is 85 x 28mm infantry - 475 points including the 50 point round bonus.

Thanks for looking!

Cheers,
Millsy