League Of Augsburg - Fighting Talk

I've got biten by the ancients bug again and purchased a box of Victrix's Republican Romans at the Tactica Wargames show in Hamburg. Although being a long time conservative "no Plastics"-Advocat, I have to confess that these minis are great and really nice to paint.
I've already put some of the Velites together and have started painting one of them for a test of which colors I 'll use on them.

very nice work Marc

Thank you Barry

Nice looking figures, I have always resisted the ancients b ug, but they look very nice.

Indeed they are! They're really crisp and tell you were to put on the paint. So if you'll get tempted doing ancients I can really recommend the Victrix stuff.

He looks great Marc, if I had time I could certainly get back into ancients with the Victrix Greeks.

Bob

toggy wrote:...if I had time...

I really know what you're talking about, Bob
..and thanks for the kind words

toggy wrote:He looks great Marc, if I had time I could certainly get back into ancients with the Victrix Greeks.

Bob

You might be even more tempted once we get together for a game.

obriendavid wrote:

toggy wrote:He looks great Marc, if I had time I could certainly get back into ancients with the Victrix Greeks.

Bob

You might be even more tempted once we get together for a game.

That is a day I'm really looking forward to Dave

Nice job. It's funny, I literally just ordered a handful of Crusader Romans and Carthaginians a few days ago with an eye toward building some Punic War skirmish forces... DONNYBROOK B.C.

I look forward to seeing more!

Thank you Clarence
Yeah, it seems that Republican Romans are pretty popular these days

Apart from the shields I already had finished the Velites a month ago.
So, now the last days I was in the mood to get the shields ready by applying those nice LBM decals which I've ordered from Victrix.

These look very good. Whish there were good rulesfor the republican Romans

We've had a large number of good games using Hail Caesar and more recently "to the strongest"

Brilliant paintjob !

duc de limbourg wrote:These look very good. Whish there were good rulesfor the republican Romans

Piquet's Archon 2 works quite nicely at representing the Republican Romans. During the normal melee resolution when the loser of a melee routs or retires (or occasionally it is a draw,) the Roman general can choose to replace a defeated Roman infantry unit with its supporting Hastati, Princeps or Triari unit. Alternatively the choice can be made to withdraw the entire line of a legion and replace it with its supporting line in the triplex acies formation. This gives a very powerful motive for a player to use the historical formation for a legion rather than extending his frontage with the rear lines which can be a temptation. (It also comes in very handy when blood-crazed Kelts have punched through your carefully arranged battle line! )