You might need more than 1000 Gauls ! They should be quick to paint though... half of them can be covered in blood red and left lying prone - so you don't need to paint their back, or their front if they're lying face down :)
Superb blog btw, thanks for sharing. I'll be back (I'm researching the next next war game I'm going to delve into - I'm tempted by WWII but Ancients are definitely in the frame).
I wonder if you could get a photo of an entire legion using a wide-angled shot of your terrain board and liberal application of cut-and-paste in photoshop to add all the needed cohorts...
No I don't have a suitable opponent for these. I have around half as many Celts, and half as many Numidians. But I am thinking more in Civil War terms so this doesn't matter too much.
I may end up with around 720 Caesarian legionaries but don't expect to go much further (except that I want to raise perhaps 500 EIRS).
Long ago it occurred to me that 2 x 240 man 1:20 "legions", added together, would give me the same number of figures (480) as in a maximum strength quingenary Roman cohort.
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I don't think we know, for sure, how many ranks this would have formed up in; presumably 4, 6 or 8. These are draw up 8 deep. The photo does give some impression as to how much space a cohort must have taken up on the battlefield, and how imposing it must have looked to a tribesman from the backwoods!
Now if I just had another 4,320 miniatures... oddly, I could just about fit an entire 1:1 legion on my table, as the legion would be around 4 metres wide (assuming that there were decent intervals between the cohorts). There's a thought...
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You just need 1000+ Gauls for it to fight!
19 November 2010 at 15:21
That is incredible! Dean
19 November 2010 at 16:08
Thanks. I hate painting celts, they are so scruffy and such hard work! Give me a Roman, any day.
19 November 2010 at 16:09
Now that is what I call a unit !
You might need more than 1000 Gauls ! They should be quick to paint though... half of them can be covered in blood red and left lying prone - so you don't need to paint their back, or their front if they're lying face down :)
Superb blog btw, thanks for sharing. I'll be back (I'm researching the next next war game I'm going to delve into - I'm tempted by WWII but Ancients are definitely in the frame).
Keep sharing these inspirational pics.
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19 November 2010 at 16:56
Nice!
I wonder if you could get a photo of an entire legion using a wide-angled shot of your terrain board and liberal application of cut-and-paste in photoshop to add all the needed cohorts...
19 November 2010 at 20:21
Is that all?Where's the rest..
Seriously though that's one impressive collection of troops!Congratulations!
Cheers
Christopher
19 November 2010 at 22:48
Made of Awesome!
19 November 2010 at 23:40
Wow! Looks fantastic. Seeing a Cohort 1:1 is great and it would be amazing to see an entire Legion!
Do you have an opponent who could field a force big enough to take on your Cohort?
20 November 2010 at 03:36
Wow! I want one :)
20 November 2010 at 08:47
Thanks chaps!
No I don't have a suitable opponent for these. I have around half as many Celts, and half as many Numidians. But I am thinking more in Civil War terms so this doesn't matter too much.
I may end up with around 720 Caesarian legionaries but don't expect to go much further (except that I want to raise perhaps 500 EIRS).
I like the photoshopping idea...
20 November 2010 at 09:45
Awesome amount of nice painted figures!
20 November 2010 at 21:41
WOW!!!! I see Romans!!
17 December 2010 at 15:43
Thanks Simon!
17 December 2010 at 18:29