Gallic mercenaries

The beauty of using a Carthaginian force is the wide variety of mercenaries they employed. One such group were Gallic mercenaries. I've enough figures to put together 2 mobs of Gallic foot. They are plastic figures from Warlord, who also supplied the shield transfers.

I'm quite happy with these, even attempted tbe checked trousers on a few of the models. Definitely wanted to make these more colourful than tbe Germans.

I also put together a first deployment point for my Carthaginians.  I just used some spare Nubian goats from Warbase and a stone from the garden. Basic, but does the job for Infamy, Infamy.

As this project continues I've 2 more mobs of Germans to do , some more Carthagininans and a lare Republican Roman force to put together.

FPW Prussian Jaegers and goodies

I finally made a start on the Prussian VI Corps. These are the Jaeger battalion added to the Division. Just the 8 figures, but at least it's a start.

The figures are all from the Outpost range. My only issue is the single pose. If I had needed more I could have purchased the other packs and mixed the poses.

In orher news the postman arrived with plenty of goodies. These will keep me occupied for a while.

So thats a box of Caesarian Romans from Warlord, some more Germans from Crusader, weapons and Hannibal to lead my Carthaginians from 1st Corps, some bases and finally some FPW Prussian infantry flags from Maverick models.

More Infamy , Infamy

I finally managed to use up the last 2 figures I had from Wargames Factory. So pleased there are no more. 1 has been given a standard  which looks very Roman like and the other has been used as part of an Ambush point with some hounds from Gripping Beast.

While I'm awaiting the next batch of figures I decided to add to my Carthaginians. This time a unit of Libyan/African Spearmen with my first officer.

These Victrix figures are superb, just wish I had someone to put them together for me. Next though for my Carthaginians is a unit of Gallic mercenaries, just need to get them built first.

Infamy, infamy....

They've all got it infamy. As I await the release of these rules from the Too fat Lardies, I decided to make a start on a couple of warbands. The first will be some wild Germans using some of an existing collection with some unbuilt wargames factory sprues added. Should have enough figures for 3 groups of intantry, some skirmishers, 2 groups of cavalry, a general and 2 sub commanders.

However an army I've always wanted to do will be part of a subsequent book. The Carthaginians. I picked up some figures from Victrix as a good starting point. I'll add cavalry to the force later.

The first group completed is some Libyan skirmishers.

The next group I completed was some African veteran spearman. I deliberately mixed in round shields and a couple of soldiers still in linothrax armour with their captured Roman equipmeny. I feel it helps with the look.

I've built the next group of Spearman. These are all in Linothrax and round shields. They can represent either trained of fresh recruits. Hopefully get these completed over the next week.