2mm Strength & Honour

The rules use camps that are active units in the game.  For the Watling Street scenario I’m using wagon laagers to represent the camp followers who accompanied Boudica’s army.  They were drawn up in a tight mass that lined the Roman road behind the army and created an almost impassable barrier.  When the battle turned against the Britons, this trapped their warriors between the advancing Romans and escape leading to mass slaughter.  The scenario suggests having one base but I’ve opted for two to provide a longer physical barrier to any retreating Britons.

Started off sticking the wagon bases onto a flocked 50mm x 150mm base.  These were undercoated in Vallejo Concrete.  Then the canopies were painted either leather or canvas (white).  Miniatures are metal from Antonine via Warbases.  One pack provides enough wagons, horses and camp followers for a single base like this.

The horses and camp follower bases were painted separately and then stuck down and everything was given a raw umber ink wash.

The horses from these Antonine sets are HUGE.  They are more than double the volume of the 3D printed horses being both taller but also much wider.  They are at least 3mm scale and maybe a bit bigger and aren’t particularly naturalistic proportionally.  That said they only need to give the suggestion of horses from the gaming distance and they manage that perfectly well.

It does show that it won’t be possible the mix the 3D prints and the Antonine on a single base, or possibly even in adjacent bases in an army.  I’m happy with the Antonine camp sets but will stick to 3D prints for the armies.