Ithoriel's Strength & Honour DIY

[paulr]

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Charles the Bold's Duchy of Burgundy vs the Swiss in 2mm would be interesting......off I go down another rabbit hole 

I'm not going to be painting them

[Ithoriel]

A few more bits and pieces finally completed.

A fortlet, mansio (Roman Travelodge for officials and VIPs) and a paddock of horses for messengers and others requiring a remount.

A small wood

A small Roman marching camp. Much larger one under construction.

In front, a unit of Siege Engines. Of course, there are no rules for siege engines in Strength and Honour but it was easy to come up with some unit stats I was happy with. With a walled, Romanised town and a Gallic village completed and a walled port underway a siege unit could not be resisted. The Baccus 6mm artillery makes excellent 2mm large engines.

[toxicpixie]

That looks awesome!

[mmcv]

Very cool

[paulr]

    

[FierceKitty]

Has me wondering if Caligula got his diminutive nickname from spending time with 2mm legions (or Legiones, if you are Mr Barker, who can't resist using the Latin word, failing to consider the necessary case, and sticking in an initial capital, possibly under the impression that Latin and German are the same language).

Rant over - project looking fun, Mike. When are we going to see those 1:4800 ships?

[d_Guy]

Lovely work Mike.   

[sunjester]

    

[steve_holmes_11]

I'm really impressed that a new 2mm movement has unleashed such creativity.

Until now, I was fairly unimpressed by the Irregular 2mm strips, and really didn't see much in the Strength and Honour specific bare metal.

There's certainly an element of good impressionist painting going on.
I'm also very impressed with Ithoriel's mini diorama approach with the camps and the elephants.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Good stuff there

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Very nice

[Ithoriel]

Gentlemen, thank for the many nice comments.

Having failed to acquire a mat from Tiny Wargames I went online and found a site that would print fabric for me to my own design. Created a very basic green square, 50mm on a side, with a black dot in the corners, tiled a 1800mm x 1200mm fabric sheet with it and ordered the result, which arrived today. Not a patch, aesthetically, on the Tiny Wargames one but with the bonus of actually existing. Could undoubtedly do better if I ever make a second one.

That portion of my Roman army that is actually painted set on a chunk of the mat in the pic below.



Also completed a second command board so now have one each for Redforce and Blueforce.

[fred.]

I'm liking the look of your mini romans!

And the organisers look good too

[paulr]

    

[Ithoriel]

After a long hiatus, things are finally moving again!

How long that will last ..... time will tell!

However, my dining table no longer resembles a builder's merchant's yard.

Instead it currently looks like a chunk of ancient Gaul that's in dire need of ironing



The army is growing slowly, with two more legions finally finished and two units of light infantry started.

The painted stuff on the march.



Light infantry can be a unit or split into up to four skirmish lines or into one or more skirmish lines and up to three reserve lines. So the two units I'm doing currently are actually 16 component elements to allow for all the options.

Compulsory units for the army I'm doing, Late Republican Warlord, are a general, one veteran and two experienced legions and a unit of skirmishers.