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Help Decide our Next Late Roman Sets!
May 20, 2021 Wargames Atlantic

Help Decide our Next Late Roman Sets!

We have a lot of great things in the works for our new Decline and Fall range with the first set Late Roman Legionaries (1): Lorica Hamata coming out soon. 

Along with the Romans in mail we have a set of Goths and also two Army Builders for the Romans and the Goths (60 figures each). The main boxes will provide enough command elements to outfit several units when combined with the Army Builder boxes. 

This range has several other sets in the works but we wanted to give you the choice as to which ones would come soonest.  

To that end here is a survey to mark down your First, Second, and Third choices. Let us know if you have other ideas below. There are no cavalry sets listed but those will be coming later as well.

 

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S Gowing - May 21, 2021

As far as enemies of Rome go, Franks and Sassanids are definitely ones I’d be interested in seeing produced

Y. Whateley - May 21, 2021

Since they seem to be a popular “we need this” request, I have to wonder, as an outsider to the historical wargaming thing:

How would late Roman-era Picts/Celts/Scots differ from the existing Wargames Atlantic Dark Age Irish Warriors?

Of course, I’m a fantasy gamer first, and I don’t mind playing fast-and-loose with historical accuracy in this scale, but I can’t imagine the costumes and equipment changed very much between the final days of the Roman Empire, and the Dark Ages, so I think those Dark-Age Irish would be my go-to kit for a lot of Northwestern European “barbarian” armies – anyone north of Hadrian’s Wall, and even rank-and-file Celts, Goths, and the like….

And it strikes me that the Dark Age Irish Warriors might even kitbash well enough with spare parts from the Late Roman Legionaries, and that proposed “lightly-armored Roman” kit that we’re voting on, which could be used as Britons, to add a little more late-Roman texture to those Pict/Celt/Scots warriors (Roman shields, helmets, and the like – war trophies, bring-backs from service as Roman mercenaries, etc.)

I can always be surprised by a huge difference I would never have suspected between late Roman Picts and Dark Age Irish in terms of costumes, equipment, and such – would be interested in learning the finer points of difference, just for the sake of curiosity.

Scott Beil - May 21, 2021

Germanic Celts

Y. Whateley - May 21, 2021

I like the sound of those Fritz Lang quasi-fantasy Huns/Avars/Steppe Nomads!!! I don’t do much with cavalry (which seems like a popular choice for Nomad armies), but some steppe warrior infantry would have definitely make their way into my fantasy miniature stash, and seem like something not many other people are doing. I also like the sound of Arthurian Britons!

Hannibal’s Carthaginians sound also like they would be a popular historical set, (though possibly, like Celts/Scots, so popular, surely there are other manufactures producing these, too?) And, since I don’t have much of a horse in the historical gaming race, how about Carthaginian and/or Sassanid Persian War Elephants? I don’t know if anyone else has an affordable war elephant army out there, and I bet that an affordable war elephant army would be very welcome to at least a niche set of historical wargamers, as well as fantasy wargamers by way of Tolkien’s oliphaunts.

I kind of imagine the Moorish invasions of Spain in the Dark Ages might provide an interesting subject as well (I’m no expert, but I assume the Spanish armies of that period would have resembled either the Goths or the Romans? On the other hand, the Moors might not have many plastic army building kits to work with, suggesting a great opportunity to fill in a gap in what’s already available.)

Peter Smith - May 21, 2021

Irish Pirate raiders, to give problems for Romans / Sub Romanic Brits.

Jonas Skinner - May 21, 2021

Early Saxons or Pics

Mark - May 21, 2021

Sassanid clibinarii, Franks, Goths, Sarmations, “standard” German infantry with hairstyle/shield options.

Stuart Johnston - May 21, 2021

More Dark Ages please. Some Eastern Europeans like Khazars, Petchenegs, Rus, Alans, Magyars, Georgians, Slavs, Sassanians, Arabs, Seljuks and other Steppe peoples would be really useful.

John Sharples - May 21, 2021

Sassanids!

Peter De Nijs - May 21, 2021

I love Romans

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