Romans and Celts

hithero · **Posted:** Fri Apr 17, 2009 11:36 am

As requested by kidterminal, my Romans and Celts which I've been using with LOTR SBG and now WOTR.

Our first battle starting positions with 2000pts each.

Eastern Archers.

Scorpion.

Auxiliaries.

Roman cavalry.

Legionaries.

Vespasian.

Druids.

...and naked fanatics.

Dorthonion · **Posted:** Fri Apr 17, 2009 11:42 am

Ahem, yes, Celts had their own interpretation of 'Go Commando'. Nice to see 2 large painted armies and a great battle field.

I like these plastic Romans and Celts from Warlord - they do some nice deals too!

http://shop.warlordgames.co.uk/imperial ... -373-p.asp

But I will keep to LotR myself.

kidterminal · **Posted:** Fri Apr 17, 2009 1:51 pm

That's what I thought, 2000pts barely fits on the table. Very nice Dave are they foundry? I've wanted the wargames foundry plastic Celts for some time.
What do the blond fanatics look like gaarew? :roll:

gaarew · **Posted:** Fri Apr 17, 2009 3:58 pm

kidterminal wrote:

What do the blond fanatics look like gaarew? :roll:

Hey! You may have seen pictures of me in a dress, but how the hell did you see pictures of me with my todger out?

:shock:

Nice armies Dave. It's nice to see so many painted minis on the table.

hithero · **Posted:** Fri Apr 17, 2009 4:22 pm

kidterminal wrote:

That's what I thought, 2000pts barely fits on the table. Very nice Dave are they foundry? I've wanted the wargames foundry plastic Celts for some time.
What do the blond fanatics look like gaarew? :roll:

Yeah, 2000pts is max on a 6x4 table, but to be fair, tactically formation do need to be at least 2 companies deep depending on opposition.

No Foundry stuff there, the bulk is Warlord Games and Black Tree (who I will never order off again, orders take months, if at all, to arrive. Very cheap and excellent quality, but thats no good if you don't actaully have them!) I've also bought some 1st Corp models - £16 for 10 metal cavalry including command! and nice models too. They are the Numidians and elephant.

kidterminal · **Posted:** Fri Apr 17, 2009 8:25 pm

gaarew wrote:

Hey! You may have seen pictures of me in a dress, but how the hell did you see pictures of me with my todger out?

:shock:

Nice armies Dave. It's nice to see so many painted minis on the table.

I couldn't bare to look at the dress pics. Sorry to hear your toger's made of lead. Maybe a doctor could help? :roll:

Yeah Dave a 6x4 table leave no room for flanking maneuvers. You'll need at least 8x4 thought 10x4 would be ideal. After years of hard work and I mean like 6, I've got my mate to consider not painting each mini to golden daemon level so he can play with fully painted armies. PS that hasn't actually happened yet but I think it might sometime this year.

Krol · **Posted:** Tue Apr 21, 2009 1:43 pm

those minis look awesome!! I'll definitely consider collecting them when I get a chance

kidterminal · **Posted:** Tue Apr 21, 2009 4:55 pm

So you're introduced a few people to historical miniatures. Good job!

King Elessar the Uniter · **Posted:** Tue Apr 21, 2009 5:10 pm

They look great! :yay:

Good sized forces as well!

Uruk-hai · **Joined:** Sun Apr 12, 2009 12:21 am **Posts:** 13

interesting stuff! I have one question though.I've been wanting to use the Warlord Games Celts as Dunlending Warriors.How do they compare to GW LotR figs in terms of scale?

imrail · **Joined:** Tue Aug 18, 2009 7:24 pm **Posts:** 666

I don't want to necromance this thread, but I just have to...
I ordered my own set of legionaries, and the question about the size, they are 28 mm just like the lotr miniatures.

Great job on yours Hithero, They look fantastic.
When I have some legionaries I'll make a picture next to a plastic and a metal lotr miniature, so you can compare sizes.

Raukov · **Posted:** Fri May 14, 2010 8:22 pm

imrail wrote:

I don't want to necromance this thread,

I'm glad you did because I missed those lil' naked dudes

imrail · **Joined:** Tue Aug 18, 2009 7:24 pm **Posts:** 666

Hithero I saw that you painted a general as Vespaspian, so I presume you know the books from Simon Scarrow. Perhaps you noticed it, but there a miniatures from Macro and Cato.

Little_Odo · **Posted:** Mon May 24, 2010 8:17 pm

Nice work Hithero. They look fantastic on the wargames table. Hopefully this will encourage a few more to try out historical gaming albeit using LotR rules.

Warlord have an excellent range of both Romans and Celts. I have several boxes of each at various stages of painting. I have based mine on pennies though, so I won't have the joy of WotR as they don't fit into movement trays properly. That said, I could always blu-tack them onto GW bases so that they do or make my own.

imrail · **Joined:** Tue Aug 18, 2009 7:24 pm **Posts:** 666

I'm working on some houserules for the romans, but which rules did you use Hithero? (for SBG that is)

garmenhord · **Posted:** Wed May 26, 2010 7:42 am

Great stuff you have there. If i didn't remembered history lessons - i would have asked why they are naked :-D

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