{"id":295,"date":"2013-03-02T18:22:56","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T18:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/partridges.org.uk\/?page_id=295"},"modified":"2021-04-26T09:38:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T08:38:17","slug":"late-romans","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/armies\/late-romans\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Romans"},"content":{"rendered":"

The vast majority of figures for these\u00a0are from Legio Heroica<\/a>.\u00a0 I particularly like their figures, and especially their Roman figures.\u00a0 They are pretty chunky, which I like, but which I know other people don’t – YMMV.\u00a0 It’s also a pretty wide range, and includes Germanic figures as well, who are useful as foederati.\u00a0 The only figures in the ranges I don’t like so far though are the Germanic light infantry – they just aren’t dynamic enough.<\/p>\n

The idea behind this is that I should be able to use these figures for any Roman army from the Severan reforms up until Yarmuk – so covering Middle Imperial Roman, Late Imperial Roman, Patrician Roman, Early Byzantine or Maurikian Byzantine (although that is getting to be a bit of a stretch).<\/p>\n

First the legionaries.\u00a0 These are the main constant throughout the entire period.\u00a0 Once they have changed over to mail and flat oval shields, the equipment doesn’t really change for 3 centuries I think.<\/p>\n

\"Legio<\/a>
Legio Britannia Secunda<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The shield patterns probably did change.\u00a0 I am using transfers from LBM, which are (like everyone else,\u00a0 based on the Notitia Dignitatum<\/a>).<\/p>\n

In the background on the right are two bases of Bd(X). These are the standard Bd but holding large clubs made from cut down match-sticks. Not perfect, but not bad for legionary clubmen.<\/p>\n

Then four auxiliary cohorts:<\/p>\n

\"Auxilia<\/a>
Auxilia Palatina<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The left hand one has a shield pattern from the Dura excavations I think, while the right hand one appears to be a pattern of a guard unit.<\/p>\n

\"Auxilia<\/a>
Auxilia Palatina<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These two have shield patterns from the Notita Dignitarum – on the left the Leones Iuniores (from the page on the Magister Peditum, who commanded the infantry of the Western field army); on the right the Anglevarii (from the page on the Magister Militum Praesentalis I, who commanded the first central field army of the Eastern empire).<\/p>\n

Then the Equites<\/p>\n

\"Equites\"<\/a>
Equites<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Three vexilla of equites armed with spears, javelins and large shields. On the left a unit with a shield from the Dura excavations, in the centre one of the Schola units from the page of the Magister Officiorum of the West, and on the right the Equites Honoriani.<\/p>\n

\"Equites\"<\/a>
Equites<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This one is two vexilla of equites on the left and four bases of Gothic nobles on the right. The vexilla are the Equites Honoriani (on the left) and the Equites Mauri Feroces (on the right).<\/p>\n

Equites Clibanarii<\/p>\n

\"Equites<\/a>
Equites Clibanarii<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Equites Illyricani<\/p>\n

\"Equites<\/a>
Equites Illyricani<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Equites Sagittarii<\/p>\n

\"Equites<\/a>
Equites Sagittarii<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The vast majority of figures for these\u00a0are from Legio Heroica.\u00a0 I particularly like their figures, and especially their Roman figures.\u00a0 They are pretty chunky, which I like, but which I know other people don’t – YMMV.\u00a0 It’s also a pretty wide range, and includes Germanic figures as well, who are useful as foederati.\u00a0 The only … Continue reading “Late Romans”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":33,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-295","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/295\/revisions\/518"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}