Enemies of Rome

Well if you are going to fight the Punic wars, you do need some enemies to fight. Now after a rummage through the lead pile I managed to pull out enough figures for 2 bases of heavy infantry and a base of medium infantry to represent one of the Italian city states such as the Campanians who decided to through in their lot with the Carthaginians. The figures I believe are from Essex miniatures, pretty quick to paint up and I've deliberately gone with simple shield designs.

I enjoyed painting these as they are a lot more irregular looking than the Romans. So I decided to order a couple of packs from Museum miniatures to add two more bases of heavy infantry and a couple of bases of Tarantine light cavalry. This will make a nice little allied force or even a small stand alone force to fight a Roman legion.

The next figures I painted up was some Gallic cavalry. These are from the free sprue that came with the Wargames Illustrated magazine. They do look a lot better than the last 'epic' scale I painted. I have enough of these for 3 more bases of cavalry and a base of light cavalry. I also did a size comparison against the original Museum miniatures and the new  'Z' sculpts. At a push I could add in some of the  Gallic cavalry from Museum miniatures as they don't scale to badly to these. However they do look small against the newer 'Z' sculpts.

L to R: Museum, Epic, 'Z' Sculpt

Now it will be back to some more Romans. I made a decision to paint the second legion with the same shields as the first, this way I can double base them up for Midgard, while also retaining the option as two legions for Basic Impetus.