Dark Age Madness

So the Victrix bingo begins.

First up are the Romano British (from the Late Roman Armoured Infantry) these troops with form the Comitatus Foot units.

I want to do the majority as spear armed and try to not to get many duplicates.

The way I have been doing this is noting what weapons have been used from sprue to sprue (the little dots on the instructions) so should give me a decent mix.

So the start of 2025 and the start of a new project that I didn’t intend to do at all. Then in December along came the release of Midgard from the Lardies and “Once and Future King” supplement from Warlord.

I have always loved the “Dark Ages” (or should it be early medieval – no I am to old it is the dark ages) and already have several “warbands” for Saga (Welsh, Saxon, Viking and Norman – plus unpainted Irish and a few Picts). So both these releases intrigued me.

One game of Midgard (using Ancient British and Romans) and I was hooked and the orders went  off just before Christmas (as a present from me to me) and they arrived within 3 days!

I also had a rummage and found my Welsh/Romano British Saga force and also some Romano British cavalry that has been loitering in the “pile of potential” for a few years.

So I now have to sort out the following:

1. How to base the forces so I can still use the Saga forces
2. Enable their use in all three rules sets.

For Midgard I will be using the standard 12cm frontage, for Hail Caesar unit frontage is between 15cm and 20cm.

For the existing troops this will probably be sorting out some sabot bases (not the greatest fan but already use in a couple of other armies to enable use in skirmish games).  For the others it will probably be on 60mm frontage bases but lets experiment and see.