Romans Clash With Celts In Italeri’s Pax Romana Set
May 3, 2016 by brennon
Italeri are stepping back in history once again with another of their Battle Sets. Their previous one went back to Rorke's Drift whereas this delves into Ancient times with Pax Romana.
This set gives you a range of 1:72 scale figures for both the Romans and Celts. Inside you get thirty six Roman Infantry, forty two Celts, sixteen Roman Cavalry and fifteen Celtic Cavalry. You also get a big Roman Villa to fight over.
You can construct yourself a diorama like this out of the set as the Romans try and stop the Celts from raiding one of their Villas. I'm sure there are some rather frightened citizens inside those walls hoping the barbarians go away.
It provides you with an interesting range of infantry and cavalry to have a good clash. There won't be any rules within the set but you can easily find a set of rules from the myriad of companies out there.
Will you be considering this?
"You can construct yourself a diorama like this out of the set as the Romans try and stop the Celts from raiding one of their Villas..."
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Oh, no. Something else I suddenly think I need 🙂
This is an old box set with a new cover. I am sure the villa has been around for sometime
This is an old box set with a new cover. I am sure the villa has been around for sometime and the figures certainly have… Italeri figures always paint up nicely
Nice 🙂
Would SAGA work with this ?
It’s a shame that the specialists shops that sell plastic model kits are rare these days.
btw :
They also have a ‘battle of bastogne’ diorama on their website that is “wargamer approved” :
http://www.italeri.com/scheda.asp?idProdotto=2518&idCategoria=5&idSottocategoria=29
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In terms of period this is quite a bit earlier than SAGA. There may be fan-made Early Imperial Roman & Celt battleboards you could use, or could use them as ‘counts as’ models for one of the existing boards. Byzantine would make the most sense for EIR and you’ve got several options for the Celts.
Roman battleboards for Saga (http://studiotomahawk.freeforums.org/late-roman-saga-f27.html), I have tried them once but didn’t like some of the “magic” like abilities present on the normal Saga boards.
well that battle of bastogne is going to the top of my wish list
I like the villa.
The Romans are from their Caesarean range rather than Early Imperial. However, they indeed paint up nicely as far as I remember and I wouldn’t mind trying out the Celts either.
Villa looks cool as well 😎
Unfortunate that it’s 1:72 rather than a more normal wargaming scale, I keep looking for good roman/greek structures for my Of Gods and Mortals force…
1/72 or 20mm is a ‘normal’ wargaming scale to quite a few people, myself included. I find it alot easier to find good quality AFV models in 20mm than in 28mm, and AB Figures WW2 range are superlative.
Great for Newline Designs 20mm Romans!