Roman Street Gang

[Prof.Witchheimer]

That's really a mean looking gang and the figures are offering lots of useful options. I gues it's our LAF Killshot who has painted them? Top job as usual.

[Rotorcraft]

That's really a mean looking gang and the figures are offering lots of useful options. I gues it's our LAF Killshot who has painted them? Top job as usual.

I suppose he is the same guy. I linked the pictures from his log in Warseer:

http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?83705-Killshot-Production-log&s=2034d6a0d764bc3907a9cff26a628e03&p=2479389&viewfull=1#post2479389

Regards.

[nervisfr]

I suppose he is the same guy. I linked the pictures from his log in Warseer:

http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?83705-Killshot-Production-log&s=2034d6a0d764bc3907a9cff26a628e03&p=2479389&viewfull=1#post2479389

Regards.

Thanks for the pics of the irish. Great convertion potential.....
Excellent paint job

[Carpathian]

Great ideas.    I am also a fan of the John Maddox Roberts books, in which street crime, brawls, and the like are encountered.

The sica, or curved blade had a reputation as a weapon of choice for criminals.   Don't know if anyone makes the figures, but fantasy cloaked assassins might work. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sica

Armed legionaries were prohibited within the walls of Rome, but there were still Caesar's own Praetorian guards.  Neighboring towns, such as Rome's bustling port of Ostia probably saw a lot of armed men coming and going.

[nervisfr]

Great ideas.    I am also a fan of the John Maddox Roberts books, in which street crime, brawls, and the like are encountered.

The sica, or curved blade had a reputation as a weapon of choice for criminals.   Don't know if anyone makes the figures, but fantasy cloaked assassins might work. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sica

some guys from Gripping Beast (Ligurian range) that could be used with little convertion work as "sica" men in a street fight !




Eric

[Carpathian]

Old Glory Thracians might work for sica men.   Anyway, they are carrying sica blades.

[Prof.Witchheimer]

As far as I understand, Sica is a sort of a large knife and not a big two-handed sword like this Rhomphaia. Also Sica hasn't been a two-handed weapon and I think it would be a bit difficult to hide a large weapon like this in the folds of the clothes.

Anyway, I think it shouldn't be too difficult to file down any sort of a sword or something like this to a Sica-shape.

[nervisfr]

The sica is a sword but a Rhomphaïa (the thracian falx) can be shortened at the handle.

[Mad Doc Morris]

Romans weren't known for clear-cut terminology for sure.
The sica was first and foremost a dagger or knife, possibly with a curved blade, the cutting edge on its inner side since it was made to "slice" (secare), a bit like a sickle (surprisingly from Latin secula, "small sica"). The very same term was then applied to Thracian/Dacian weapons which featured curved blades as well. Their largest specimen were called falces, in turn the Latin term for "sickles". And don't mention rhompaia/rumpia-type swords which were said to be used as spears as well…

However, sicarii (as a legal term for murderers) would be literal "cutthroats", deemed to employ insidious slicing sica-weapons. Their name's not with a specific weapon in mind, though.

All in all, almost any dagger/shortsword-wielding figure would do for an assassin or murderous thug. Still one of my favourites of the specifically Roman kind is this gentleman killer in the upper right corner:



Or the same one in a more casual stance:

[Prof.Witchheimer]

Damn, 10 days ago at Tactica, I have been holding this Foundry blister with the Assassin guy in my hands and been thinking about buying it or not. My only concern has been that the figures are a bit on the small side. Now seeing it again I realize, I should have bought it, no matter the size, it's an amazing miniature as well as the rest of the pack.

Thanks for the hints, Doc, very useful as usual.  I didn't know there is a term for murderers called sicarii. I like it, sounds mean and dangerous. Regarding the sica  you're surely right in terms of lack of clear terminology and that any sort of knife would work. Though having a curved dagger on a figurine certainly gives to it a certain amount of authenticity, at least for the readers of Maddox' books 

All that talk about murderers and blades makes me want to start some conversion work. It crosses just my mind, actually I've got a lot of Foundry gladiators armed with sica. They perhaps aren't a bad idea for conversions.

[rumacara]

Hello all

Some updates to my band and some law and order forces.


Cheers

Rumacara

[rumacara]

Stop all

News from Ostia.
Marcus Pullius a well known gang leader was finally caught after hard fight from the roman authorities

Unfortunately next day another ganger took its place

[rumacara]

and now the tent

[Aaron]

I've just noticed that Gripping Beast have a whole range of unarmoured legionaries. You would have to replace the heads (as they all have helmets) and probably cut off the sword scabbards, but it seems like there are a lot of potential gang members / citizens available there. http://www.grippingbeast.com/shop.php?CatID=50

[nervisfr]

I've just noticed that Gripping Beast have a whole range of unarmoured legionaries. You would have to replace the heads (as they all have helmets) and probably cut off the sword scabbards, but it seems like there are a lot of potential gang members / citizens available there. http://www.grippingbeast.com/shop.php?CatID=50

Exact but the poses are not very dynamic.
See in the gladiators range too

http://www.grippingbeast.com/shop.php?CatID=52

and in the pictish range, the hunters (cut off the Xbow and then you have bad guys ready to ambush an innocent victim !