More Romans and Goths for Midgard

Somewhere on the Danube frontier, ca. AD 275

It's taken a couple of weeks but I've completed three units for my 3rd century Project for Midgard. I'd meant to paint them in two batches, but got carried away.

First up is a small skirmish unit armed with bows. It took a lot of trial and error to get the fellow drawing the arrow. 

But it is nice you can build a variety of loading, aiming and loosing poses.

Then a unit of warriors. Because you need a lot of warriors for a proper migrating horde of Goths.

I've included an archer in the back to remind players that they have a shooting capability as well. Gothic archery caused a lot of grief for the Romans according to Simon McDowell.

The chief has a bigger shield, from the Roman sprue, because I gave the Roman Signifer a small, round shield from the Gothic sprue. The shield transfer is from Relic Miniatures as well. The rest of  them have painted shields.

I also did a second cohort of legionaries. I suppose they could be auxilia as well, the distinction had pretty much disappeared by this time. But if you look close there are some markings saying "Legio V."

I'm enjoying being able to make the figures less ranked up with the big single stand units. Especially with the Goths. Barbarian troops always look a bit wrong with the neat ranks and files the you get with any conventional basing. This looks much more dynamic.

Note Signifer with small buckler. I had to hand paint the design to match the transfers on the scuta.

While I was flocking them, I added some more flock to the first cohort to eradicate the golf green look that the static grass had given them.

 

The plastic Roman army now has 4 units of warriors (2 Wargames Atlantic and 2 Warlord Auxiliaries) and a unit of artillery (Warlord). The Goths have 6 warriors, 2 skirmishers, and 4 cavalry, plus 7 heroes.