Roman Heroes for Midgard

I ordered these figures, piggy backing on a friend putting in an order to Footsore, before the Mad Padre sent me a sprue of Victrix plastic Roman generals. As usual with things I really want to look grand I over thought things, got paralyzed, and set them aside for a while before finishing them off.

But now I have lots of mounted commanders for both Roman armies and a proper King for the Goths.

I wanted a nice cavalry hero to lead the cavalry ala of Cohors Equitata IX Britanarium. This is the Footsore Belisarius figure. He has a suitably ornate helmet and armoured horse. His companion with the draco standard is from the Late Roman Cavalry Command set. His shield decal is from Relic Miniatures. I think it looks like Mithras and it seems like something a big damn hero would carry into battle. It was a struggle to make it fit the metal shield since these decals are made for the bigger Wargames Atlantic shields. Fortunately the boarderless design meant I could squish the edges around to make it fit. The signifer with the draco has a painted shield design. I have a few left over LBMS decals that fit the Footsore oval shields. I should probably just give him one of those so he fits the rest of the army. Especially since I suspect his job will be trailing around with Equus Fornicatus here to show the enemy what a Big Damn Hero (at least level 2) he really is.

"Treat your woman like your horse! Take her for a gallop and leave her sweating and breathless three times a day! Woof!"

The Goths really needed a bigger Big Man, or a properly heroic Level 3 King, if they're going to take the table as an army on their own. After a bit of a search I settled on Footsore's King Arthur, who comes with the draco bearing companion as well. Arthur himself is a one piece casting plus the wire spear. 

Finally the other two offciers from the Footsore Late Roman Cavalry Command set. I did one with a yellow cavalry crest and a LBMS decal to be another cavalry tribune for the IXth cohort. I tried using a Relic Miniatures transfer but it didn't work, the border on the design getting all messed up by the different curvature of the metal shield edge. The other commander, with the fur cape, I did with a blue crest so he can go anywhere. He could even be a Goth really.

The Footsore figures are a bit pricey, but they do have value added. I do like my round washers, but some of the horses wouldn't fit on one of those, and fortunately they all came with pill shaped MDF bases I could use. I even used some for the Victrix commanders mentioned at the start. They also come with the wire spears and poles for the dracos.

I have seen that Footsore is working on a 3rd century Roman range. So I may get some of those in the future. Possibly a pack or two when I finally pull the trigger on a Picitish army to face off againts the IXth Britanarium.