Eagle Rampant - Building a Republican Roman Army - WIP - Part 5

Hi,

today´s post is about some unit cards I created for EagleRampant. 

When building your warband you normally write down the single units on a paper as there is no army builder for LionRampant like it is for rules like Muskets&Tomahawks. At least I didn´t find an army builder searching the web.

But on the Facebook group for LionRampant I found a file within the file section that offers unit cards. But to be honest they had been very simple and I don´t like the simple look. So I decided to create my own unit cards. There are all the stats of the specific units noted and also their special abilities, the possible upgrades and the additional points for upgrading.

While gaming LionRampant we often had to look up some abilities of the units in the rules. To avoid this I also  decided to note the explanations of the special abilities and upgrades on the unit cards aswell. The result was a card (or cards) that can be folded in the middle and iserted into card sleeves. Because of putting the cards into sleeves there is also the possibility to mark the upgrades with non-waterproof pens in order to get the total points of the specific unit after upgrading them.

So there is no longer a sheet of paper necessary to build an army. Just grap the units you want to integrate into your warband, mark the upgrades and count the points.

We haven´t used the cards yet, but in my opinion this should work very well.

I created a version with a blank space between the UnitName and the stats of the unit. I like to fill this gap with pictures of my own units. So the units can be identified easily on the gaming table.

The unit cards can be found here:   EagleRampant UnitCards on Facebook

Cheers 

Mike

A unit card showing a unit of my own Velites.

The same unit card in a neutreal  version.

Eagle Rampant - Building a Republican Roman Army - WIP - Part 4

Manufacturer:   Victrix

Scale:   28mm

Hi,

Finally I managed to complete my first unit for EagleRampant - a unit of 6 Roman Velites.

I still feel the aftermaths of my spine operation and I am not able to sit for a long time. So the figures took a long time to be finished. Furthermore my eyelight is getting worse and also the motor skills of my right hand is making problems actually. It is a real shit getting old. But that´s what my parents always told me and I didn´t believe this. They were right.

Saying this, the unit is not painted in the style or quality I normally did on figures in former times. But remembering the huge number of figures I will have to paint for this project it works fine and the figures are still done in a good standard for wargaming. 

I also decided to create some unit cards for a better gaming. Normally you build an army list and have to look at the list concerning the units. Maybe it is better to use single unit cards with all features of the specific unit on it. So when combining your army you only have to pick up the cards and lay them next to the gaming board instead of copying the values on a greater sheet of paper. There are also pictures on these cards helping to identity the units. We will see how useful this will be within the first few games.

Hope to be able to finish the next unit soon.

Cheers

Mike

Six Velites in red tunics. There will be another one in white tunics, too.

AI created picture to be used for the planned unit cards.

A design of a unit card that probably could be used for the games.
Let´s see how this will work.

Eagle Rampant - Building a Republican Roman Army - WIP - Part 3

Manufacturer:   Victrix

Scale:   28mm

Hi,

just a short post about the actual eftorts according my current project. It took me a while to paint up these two guys due to the fact that I am not able to sit more than one or two hours at the moment. This is caused by the operation I had in June.

The two guys will represent two different units of velites with six miniatures each. There will be a unit with red tunics and white shields and another one with white tunics and red shields.

I like to do this pattern throughout the complete army. This has the advantage that this enables me to use the red units and white units as opposing armies playing Roman CivilWars as long as the planned army of Hannibal is not ready.

So here are the two test figures. They are not painted as clean as I usually do. Having in mind that there are about 120 figures waiting to be painted (and minimum twice the number of figures for the Carthaginians) I will have to do some easier methods for a faster paintjob. Therefore I use contrast colors for the flesh parts and the tunics with only a little bit of highlighting. But also usnig this method will make this project last very long.

Cheers

Mike