Legio Wargames

My latest project is to paint up a force of Etruscans for Andy Hawes’ Dux Italica  rules — an adaptation of Dux Britanniarum for the early stages of Rome’s conquest of Italy 4 th  C BC which is still work in progress. I start by kit-bashing miniatures from a wide variety of manufacturers including Footsore metals (including their separate Etruscan and Italian heads), Agema Roman Republican plastics, Victrix Greek and Italian plastics. These men will eventually become 2 nd  Cl

Fresh off the painting table is a unit of Armenian cavalry These men will see action when I refight Dasymon (AD 838) as part of my play-testing for the 2026 revision of Comitatus rules . They can also see service in Byzantine, Crusader, or even Turkish and Arab armies. As usual I kept to a limited colour palette -- in this case various shades of red, white and yellow. This gives coherence to a unit of non-uniformed men. The figures are all 28 mm Perry Armenians from their c

I am staging another play test for my revision of Comitatus Rules in December. This unit, just off the painting table, will be the Comitatus of Sembat the Armenian leading the Arab cavalry at the Battle of Dasymon (aka Anzen) AD 838. I kept to a simple green and yellow colour palette to give a sense of coherence to an otherwise un-uniformed group of men. I am particulary pleased with how the banner turned out -- a golden pheasant and cresent moon. It was actually much easie

Coracles have been seen off the coast near Southwold! Will the wild, painted Picti from the North ally with the Saxons or are they on their own mission of plunder? I have been busy painting a Pict contingent for our ongoing Dux Britanniarum campaign set in Caer Colun. The archers are old Irregular and Minifigs 25mil. They bring to mind Rosemary Sutcliff’s description of the wee dark folk: "Long before the Epidii came following their white horse out of the sunrise, long befor