Balearic slingers

Watchout for your heads because here is the: ,,Numerus funditori Balearici''  The miniatures are Corvus Belli Balearic slingers.

Next Cohort

Here she is the ,,COHOR III MATTIACORUM PEDITATA''. She is the last Cohort of the Mattiacii. Maybe I will paint another base in the same scheme to enable a battle unit(e.g. 4 stands) in the far future.

weekend walk

Some weeks ago, in the fall, I was walking to the Justinusfelsen near Adolfseck and Lindschied.

At the way there was another historical site namely ,,Alte Schanze'', It was probably built in the thirty years war and is a systeme of ditches and holes. It was build at a bifurcation from Mittleage and Roman roads and paths. There you can watch the hole Aartal and you can fire at a pass from Westerwald.

 The hills are very steep so the Schanze needed only some men to control the whole area.

At the end I came to the Justinusfelsen were are Roman inscribed his name in a quarry probably he was a legionary at the limes. Because the quarry is just 200m away from it or he was quarry worker.

roman fort Rettert

Today I found a old post I wanted to view you in the summer but forgot and post it now.

I was on a Roman milefort in Rettert. The limes there is called Obergermanischer Limes.

It was never totally excavated and you can see the structure of the small fort very well.

 

Like all forts this one has 4 ports:







The way to the crossing and the fountain in the middle:
The porta on the other end, the main porta:

The other two portas:



The foundations of the towers :


The walls:

 

A reconstructed part of the wood palisade:
 

An view on the landscape (click for a better view)

BTD EIR prototype

 

I recently have some Black Tree Design Early Imperial Romans, to extend and finish my existing Auxiliary Army.

I painted a Prototype of my Legionnaires, normally they will wear iron helmets.

 

new showcase

here is my 'old' new showcase. I threw my old 50mm figures out and added some of my armies:


the upper shelve is filled by a third of my caesarian army namely the X. legion, while the 1st cohort is still in work:


the second shelve contains my barbarians:


the third shelve is conquered by my eir romans ( one auxilia unit and praetorians are not painted yet) and their impressive ballista:


the last shelve contains some caesarian reinforcements namely the numidian cav and caesarian-greek artillery:

new stuff

today ne stuff from blacktree arrived. Manly Praetorians and Auxilia they and my old eir stuff will form the new WAB2 Army. Im going to by some command.