EagleRampant - The Army of Maximinus Thrax

Scale:   28mm

Hi,

This post is about an army of Romans from the early 3rd century that was lead by Emperor Maximinus Thrax (235-238 AD). This guy was not a noble men but managed to become emperor of Rome. He never came to Rome to reign the empire from its capital. There is a great documentary about Maximinus Thrax on YouTube:  Documentary Maximinus Thrax

I got this army from my friend Christopher for a very good price and I will try to use it for EsgleRampant, the Roman variant of LionRampant. Christopher has painted the figures in an excellent style and it is a pleasure to place them on the battlefield.

The army of Maximinus Thrax also fought at the Rhine and the Danube against Germanic tribes. I already have some Germanic warriors within my collection, but they will need some reinforcements. Maybe I will be lucky to find some more on eBay. My personal actual project is building a republican Roman Army for the Punic wars.

Enjoy the fotos of the great work of Christopher‘s paint job.

The terrain is again from Tabletop Modellbau. 

Cheers

Mike

The terrain from Tabletop Modellbau.

A unit of archers in the woods and a unit of heavy infantry.

Some Germanic tribesmen crossing the river.

Another Warband crossing a bridge. But the Ronans are already waiting for them.

There will be no chance for the Germanic warriors.

Some great command figures.

A unit of light infantry flanked on both sides by heavy infantry.

The Roman cavalry at the ready.

Roman archers aiming their enemies.

The Germanic Warband.

A special book about the Army of Maximinus Thrax.

Eagle Rampant - Building a Republican Roman Army - WIP - Part 2

Manufacturer:   Victriix Limited

Scale:   28mm

Hi,

within one of my last posts I showed the start of a new project - EagleRampant - a variant of the rules of LionRampant. The content was assembling the Republican Roman Cavalry for the PunicWars.

This time the post is about the Republican Roman Infantry with its Velites, Princeps, Hastati and Triarii.

The infantry was built out of 2 different boxes from Victrix and contains a total of 120 men split into three units of Velites (36 men in total), three units of Princeps (also 36 men in total), two units of better equipped Hastati (24 men in total), two units of elite Triarii (12 men in total) and 6 signifers and 6 officers.

That´s a lot of figures and normaly you do not need this much figures for building an army for EagleRampant (or LionRampant). But I could also split this army into two parts to play times of Roman civil wars. The assembling was very time consuming, cleaning up the mouldlines and glueing all the parts together. I finally got it today. But that was only the assembling.

The next job to do will be to prepare the bases and priming the total army. Not to forget to paint all these guys, knowing that there are also Carthaginians, Celts, Iberians, Samnites and Numidians waiting for the same process. I guess that I will have to become older than 85 years to finish this project. :)

I have already painted up one single cavalryman for testing the flesh tones. I used contrast paints for the flesh and I have put some highlights on it. It is no masterpiece, but in my opinion this came out quite good. Thinking about the enormous number of figures of this project I will have to use easy and fast painting methods. 

So keep your fingers crossed for me and let´s hope that the motivation on this project will last for a long time to get it done.

Cheers

Mike

An overview on the total Republican Roman Army.

Velites with helmets.

My favorite Velites with wolveskins.

Unarmoured Velites.

First unit of Princeps.

Second unit of Princeps.

The third unit of Princeps.

The first unit of Hastati...

...and the second one.

Two units of Triarii (6 men each) - The signifer and officer are just for show.

 I don´t know why Victrix has put 16 men in total into the box of the Roman Cavalry.
Normally for EagleRampnant six men per unit are enough. The first unit of Cavalry.

The second unit of Cavalry with the single painted test figure.

A close up of the test figure.

I would be happy if the whole cavalry is going to look like this figure.

The three packs from Victrix the army was built of. 136 men in total.

I will have to order more shield transfers as these few packs won´t be 
enough to fix them onto 136 shields.

Many thanks for one million clicks

Hi,

Thank you all for at least one million clicks on my blog.

Thank you for your kind comments and for liking my blog and my work on the hobby. 

It is always fun to keep on the hobby, seeing projects developing, recognizing how the collection of wargaming figures and toysoldiers steadily grows.

I started this blog in November 2010 and on 5th of July 2024 I celebrated 500.000 clicks. Remembering that the first half a million clicks took 14 years I am really happy that the second half of a million took almost exactly 2 years. 

The blog also now has some 375 posts and there will be much more to come. 

Cheers

Mike