Arthur and the Gang

     So, I finally finished the Gripping Beast Late Roman Infantry that I have been puttering away at for the last couple of weeks. I think they turned out rather well ( aside from the hand-painted shields, that is). Now all I have to do is build and paint the twenty-one cavalry  from the two boxed of Dark Ages Cavalry that I bought and round up some Welsh-looking lads to use a skirmishers and I will have my little army ready for battle.

 

a solid all-infantry force, but I need some cavalry and light troops 

 

as the Roman Empire died supplies of armor became scarce

more and more troops had to rely on a large shield

 

having switched to a largely static defensive role

 the infantry needed massed missile power

 

these numbers increased as the opponents were now often light horsemen

 

the command group, Arthur is ably assisted by the still-fearsome centurions 

and will soon be back-stopped by a cavalry force

 

more spearmen, as the Empire waned these first became sedentary

 then degenerated into militia

 

in rare cases there were still some heavy shock type infantry with body armor