AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE HESSIANS

A Brigade of Perry Miniatures Hessians from the American War of Independence. Now in the collection of Martin Scott of Herts Volunteers Wargames Club.

This infantry regiment is the Von Trumbach Infantry Regiment, the other regiment in the top picture is the Prinz Carl Infantry Regiment. The latter were featured in a previous post.

The Brigade's Grenadier Regiment - Von Block (Von Lengerke 1777) composed of the grenadiers of the Infantry Regiments Wutginau, Von Donop, Von Trumbach and Prinz Carl.

Hessian Jaegers - already featured in a previous post but they are such good figures and I really like the officer with the eye patch!

SCOLA GENTILLIUM SENIORUM

These are 28mm Late Roman heavy cavalry, Figures by Wargames Foundry. Now in the collection of Mick Hoddy of Herts Volunteers. Mick requested coloured lances rather than the usual brown, so I went for the green and cream/buff combination seen here. I think it looks rather nice if I do say so myself. It makes a nice change. I suppose it could be argued that there is no evidence for coloured lances being used. However there is also no evidence against it.
They will certainly stand out on the table top though!

28MM LATE IMPERIAL ROMANS

Some Legio Commitatensis - the legion with the red shields are Foundry and the legion with the yellow shields are Gripping Beast. The supporting dart throwers are Foundry. These guys have plain shields - the Late Roman period wasn't all about fancy pants shields but getting troops on the ground to defend the Roman way of life,  and to prevent it from disappearing under the waves of migrating Germanics - not that it would matter the Romans were already heavily influenced by Germanic/Saxon material and culture by now anyway. Now in the collection of Mick Hoddy of the Herts Volunteers Wargames Club.

GRIPPING BEAST 28MM ANGLO-SAXONS

 A nice unit of Gripping Beast Anglo-Saxons completed just before Christmas. These are the pictures I took before remembering to add the flags, but they still look ok. I accidentally deleted the pictures with the flags!

PRINZ CARL HESSIAN INFANTRY REGT 28MM PERRY MINIATURES AWI

Hessian Infantry Regiment Prinz Carl firing line - part of a commission for a Hessian American War of Independence Brigade. Figures are 28mm Perry Miniatures.  Flag is from Maverick Models.

ANOTHER 28MM LIR LEGION

Another Late Imperial Roman Guard unit. 28mm Wargames Foundry. Its not clear on the pictures but it was a bit of a squash fitting the centurion in as he is pointing his sword to the rear. His sword tip ended up on the shoulder of the horn player. Actually, I thought, this works nicely. He is tapping him on the shoulder to give a signal on his horn! A pre-arranged signal manoeuvre between the two of them in response to an enemy movement.
Its logical, there must have been a good understanding between the musician and the centurion - the musician would need to know what the officer wanted and what signal to play in order to relay the instructions to the soldiers - shouting orders in the middle of a battle would not be enough and could easily be misunderstood.

I tried a bit of graffiti on the back of one of the shields - a bit of Roman humour harking back to the good old days of Julius Ceasar - Veni Vidi Vici. I like the idea of Roman graffiti/humour, so need to research more Latin phrases - I looked at some surviving wall graffiti from Pompei but its all a bit too rude and certainly not contextual to the back of a soldiers shield, even though the soldiers sense of humour would be pretty rough.

In the Early Imperial Roman period a legionary was appointed as the medic - medicii. I guess it would continue into the later period so I have marked this mans rank on the back of his shield.

28MM WARGAMES FOUNDRY LATE IMPERIAL ROMANS

This is a Late Imperial Roman guard type unit, hence the more regular appearance with purple and white clothing tunics. I put some variation on the trousers though as I guess the tunics for the guards might be state issued - not necessarily the trousers though. A more straight forward shield design taken from the Notitia Dignitatum's list of guards units was also used.