I painted up a 28mm collection of Late Romans and Goths / Early Saxons a year or two ago for Saga. Having played about 5 games of Saga I realised I hated it. It is a very clever and imaginative ruleset, but far to gamey and historically dubious for my tastes so onto eBay those books and fancy dice go. The armies assemble either side of a stream I had picked up Dan Mersey's Osprey rule set Dux Bellorum on the cheap some time ago, so I decided to upscale my armies and sabot base them for some rank and flank. The Goth infantry line My Romans army is roughly 100 figures from a mix of manufacturers. In metal I have Footsore cavalry, some Gripping beast characters and some Foundry manabalistas. In plastic they are gripping beast and Victrix. The Victrix are more detailed and more dynamic and I like the Victrix heads alot. But they break really easily and are hard to rank up because they are all flailing their limbs around. The Gripping Beast and exaggerated sculpts, not quite heroic sca...
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