My Celtic host

[dadlamassu]

This project is not quite finished (but then none of my projects ever seem to get finished). I have had the figures for ages some built some still on sprues.  So I set about building, priming and painting during the bad weather and finished them off with varnish today.  The majority of the figures are Warlord games plastics and a few metal. Many are conversions with a few from other ranges and even the odd fantasy figure too.

The Celtic Host - Left Wing mainly cavalry with some tribal infantry and a lot of screaming women behind them.


Centre led by the Queen and her chariot mounted champions


The Right Wing of infantry, light skirmishers and naked fanatics


The cavalry



Celtic Warriors and screaming women



The Queen and her King and Nobles in chariots with elite heavily armed warriors on foot behind.


Maked fanatics, Light infantry scouts and hunters


Druids. Priests and Priestesses calling upon the gods for victory


They provide the opposition to my Romans
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=121726.msg1526688#msg1526688

Both armies deployed

[bluewillow]

Nice! Still working on mine

Cheers
Matt

[Whitwort Stormbringer]

Nice army! The dream is to one day have something that size, most of mine is still waiting to be primed though!

What's the rationale behind having matching dismounted models for the cavalry, if you don't mind my asking? It's kind of a cool idea, especially for an army with such varied and irregular equipment. Do you have a set of rules in mind that calls for the possibility of cavalry becoming dismounted?

Just curious - nice work!

[dadlamassu]

What's the rationale behind having matching dismounted models for the cavalry, if you don't mind my asking? It's kind of a cool idea, especially for an army with such varied and irregular equipment. Do you have a set of rules in mind that calls for the possibility of cavalry becoming dismounted?

Just curious - nice work!

Thanks for the kind words.  We use our fantasy game rules http://www.morvalearth.co.uk/me_simple_abridged_rules.htm because they combine some aspects of narrative wargame, campaign and role play where most characters are named.  Cavalry quite often dismounts on raids, patrols, bad going, sieges etc.  Or the mount gets killed.  So dismounted models are a good idea. 

[cadbren]

I never noticed that the Wargames Factory chariot horses have reins. I have a couple basecoated but I didn't notice that before.

[FierceKitty]

Romans like that didn't fight Gauls. The province had been conquered and Romanised for two centuries by the tme of the Trajanic legionary. Airfix and Asterix really aren't reliable sources.

[cadbren]

Romans like that didn't fight Gauls. The province had been conquered and Romanised for two centuries by the tme of the Trajanic legionary. Airfix and Asterix really aren't reliable sources.

Perhaps it's better to say Romans like that didn't fight the peoples from the region that the Romans called Gaul, at least not in any recorded battle. It's likely the Raetians looked very similar as would many of the alpine tribes plus there were many Celtic tribes living in the Alps not part of Gaul stretching all the way to Thrace (modern Balkans). Augustus waged war against them from 16BC to 7BC.  The first record of segmentata is from a Roman arch built in 14BC so it's likely the Roman army was wearing segmentata when fighting the Alpine Celts. The Scordisci, a Celtic tribe who occupied territory in the borderlands of modern Hungary, Croatia and Serbia were defeated in this same period or at least submitted to Rome during this time. So there are plenty of instance of Celts to have fought against Romans in segmentata and there are the Britons of course who were fighting from 43ad.

[dadlamassu]

Romans like that didn't fight Gauls. The province had been conquered and Romanised for two centuries by the tme of the Trajanic legionary. Airfix and Asterix really aren't reliable sources.

I did not say that my Celts were Gauls.  Where did that come from?  The origin of both forces was our grandson's school project on the local sites of Antonine's Wall, Trimontium (Newstead) see https://www.antoninewall.org/  They are based more on the British tribes of the 1st Century AD and later.  Since the study also covered Boudicca I included the queen and the chariots.

[seldon]

That is a lot of celts !

better not piss them off 

[Grumpy Gnome]

Nicely done! Much respect for so much work put in. I love the matching dismounted figures.

[FierceKitty]

I did not say that my Celts were Gauls.  Where did that come from?  The origin of both forces was our grandson's school project on the local sites of Antonine's Wall, Trimontium (Newstead) see https://www.antoninewall.org/  They are based more on the British tribes of the 1st Century AD and later.  Since the study also covered Boudicca I included the queen and the chariots.

Fair 'nuff.