This set looks to be as good as the Dark Ages Irish box. Lots and lots of options for building a variety of units. And the spare parts come in handy for other projects too. My hat's off to the WA crew on another fine job.
Even better than the Irish weapon options wise 👍 Really happy to see bows and slings. Especialy the second is hard to get despite being crucial type of weapon.
@Steffen Seitter you could make Foederati by building the figures with just the parts from this set as they are but if you used the Roman helmets and shields, they could be used for the other unarmoured Romans, I’m especially thinking of the limitani units but to what extent Late Romans wore armour is open to some academic debate. The past theory seems to be that after Adrianople they had a significant shortage of armour but more recent texts have suggested that is wrong. There are quite s lot of gaps in our knowledge of this era so there is scope for alternative interpretations
The Adrianpolis Topic is a misinterpretation of Vegetius. The context was that they dislikes wearing armour and many refused to wear armour in battle, with bad endings.
As I know (it was mentioned on facebook some month ago) we will see a own set of unarmoured romans.
It's consens that the Limitanei were unarmoured cause they were shortaged of supply mostly in favour of the Comitatenses.
