The Lines are Drawn

The following are some pics taken last summer of a Basic Impetus Game between Polyibian Romans and Early Visigoths if memory serves correctly. The nots of the encounter are about some where but hopefully the pictures will tell their own story.

The battle lines in the early stages of the encounter.

First moves

Cautious Romans advance into the Impetuous Barbarian hordes

Closing in

Skirmishing begins

A break for the flank from the Romans

First blood to the Barbarian Hordes

The lines massing for the charge

The soldiers go marching, those masses align

First contact

The benefit of the large Barbarian units pushing back the Roman line

Pushing home the attack and tea

The flanking cavalry are held at bay by skirmishers

Drawing them in...

The reserve legion fails to break the Barbarian unit nearest the camera.

The lines clash again...

The Roman line starts to crumble but not without taking a heavy toll on the Barbarian hordes

...the end of play

Victory to the barbarian hordes but not without cost.

Hope the pictures give you the idea of the game and how it flowed.

Cheers for now.

Temptation Four

Some great looking cavalry from Redoubt Miniatures for their Trojan War range.

These are not painted by myself

(more details here)

Not quite sure how these would fit in to the Impetus army but they do look the part. Perhaps they could be reward once the studies are complete. On that note its off to work

Cheers

The Widow's Wall

Studies are taking up nearly all spare time at present, however you have to have lunch. The following pictures show the very slow progress being made on the Berserker base for the Vikings.

Rather than go for a large collection of bare topped frothing loons, the base comprises of figures with movement in varying degrees. The central figure from Gripping Beast’s Breaking the Widows Wall vignette is charging through the opposition shieldwall and everybody else is following his lead. Not necessarily that easy to see in black under coated figures but hopefully the germ of the idea is there.

The second set of pictures show the slow progress being made on the Royalist English Civil War army for Basic Baroque. That is the shot and pike bases completed bar painting the pikes on 2 bases. Don’t ask why they weren’t painted before being glued in place as no answer will be given, they just weren’t. A decision that will be regretted no doubt.

Lurking in the top right corner is a test figure currently being painted from Front Rank Miniatures; what the outcome of it will be remains to be seen... 

The Spartan cavalry are lurking there as well, with the ground work on the base slowly moving on.

The same unit from above, just because.

Well that is lunch over and the books beckon. Hopefully, there will be more for the next post but no promises.

The Great Hoarding

Well, that is the trading over and the additional figures required for the Seleucid and Late Macedonian armies are now all accounted for. As are several bases worth of Imitation Legionnaires, Thorakites and Thureophoroi, meaning that the future offers a few options and an early Basic Impetus Pontic army – there are not enough Legionnaires to make the army the later version.

The list below is a first interpretation taken from the full Impetus list that is up for comment of the Impetus Forum.

1 CP- Heavy Cavalry (*) 10 5 3 3 1 CL - Light Cavalry 12 3 1 1 Javelin 1 CP - Bosporans or Rhoxolani 10 6 3 3 Impetuous 4 FP - Phalangites (*) 5 4 1 2 Pike 1 FL - Galatians 8 4 4 2 Impetuous 2 FL - Javelinmen 8 4 1 1 Javelin 2 S - Archers 8 2 0 1 Short bow B Options 1.     change CL Javelin for CL Skythians CL- Skythians 12 3 1 1 Comp. bow B 2.     Changes 1 FP Pike for 1 FP Imitation Legion FP - Imitation legionaries 5 5 1 2 Pilum

In real terms the lead Mountain isn’t any smaller, but the figures that are there have a greater chance of actually being painted. This in itself is an achievement.

With college work full on at present, there hasn’t been much painting done, in fact almost none to be honest. Unfortunately, college is the priority  at the moment but that will change come early May. Here is a picture of the last figure for the Odalsbondi base for the Vikings as well as two frothing loons for the Berserker base.

Flags from Little Big Men studios

Will try to keep updating the blog over the next 2 months but can’t make any promises.

Cheers for now