Ancients Scenario: Magnesia

Another famous encounter, this time between the Republican Romans and the Seleucids of Antiochus. This is the battle I am using for my Seleucid army list, and since one can use the same Romans as for Zama, it seemed a sensible one to try to represent next. All the Romans need is their Pergamene allies. See the page link on the left of the blog's front page.

New Page: Ancients Scenarios

I have written up a scenario for Zama as I would like to play it if our club had more resources. It is the first in what will be an infrequent series of ancients battles for our chosen ruleset, Tactica II. I have, however, written it so as to be easily translated to other rulesets. The page link is on the leftmost column of the blog's main page. Our own game will be close to this, but with slightly fewer figures.

On the painting tray: April 2010

March saw the completion of the last of the Romans I promised to do for Zama: 24 Principes, 24 Triarii and 2 army command figures. Pictures to follow soon. Now that my brain and wallet are fed up with Romans, I want to take a break from them and continue with my revamp of older figures. April sees eighteen 25mm Naismith Designs Macedonian Companions, plus a mounted Alexander figure. Our club is hoping to put on Zama at several shows in Scotland over the summer, and I would like to add to my contingent so as to be able to field a Polybian Roman army in full. At the moment I have the legions only; some Roman and Numidian horse would help to flesh it out a bit more. But I do need a break from them.