First Of the Romans

Having being a long time fan of Richard Borg's command and colours ancients my current ambition is to play it on a 6ft by 4ft hex map Hotz mat found at http://www.hotzmats.com/ and 20mm figures similar to what Conrad Kinch of http://joyandforgetfulness.blogspot.ie/ has done with command and colours Napoleonic's. (Starting with the punic wars from the base game)

I have just finished the last of my Napoleonic's figures which I use to replace the blocks from command and colours Napoleonic's a much less ambitions undertaken as each block was replaced with a single figure.

With the Napoleonic figures completed for now I had time to get the first set of ancients figures on the work table for assembly and undercoating. These where Italeri set 6021 Roman Infantry more information on the figures can be found at the very useful plasticsoldierreview.com here http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=205.

The figures are quite nice looking although 1 of the 2 poses has the sword on the left hand side assembly was almost straight forward but the odd pilum was damaged  trying to force it through the hand grips and the set contains no spares which required the use of some metal replacements constructed from bits of paper clips.

The 3 figure above will be used to represent the strength of  the unit as in CC ancients each Infantry unit  has 4 blocks the musician standard bearer and centurion will be removed for the 1st 2nd and 3rd hits with the full block of figures  being removed when the unit is destroyed.

The current plan is that the final block will consist of 15 figures deployed in 5x3 ranks made up of the above figure front left has a paper clip pilum as do 1 or 2 of the back ranks with the shields raised over their heads.

Current progress is 18 figures undercoated

These will eventually become Medium (blue) Infantry when painted