It's alive!

The new Kickstarter for War and Empire II is now live and can be found here https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/832150598/war-and-empire-ii-legions-of-rome. It looks like the starting goal will be reached very soon and the stretch goals will be unveiled. The first one is a ruined round temple followed by barbarians and figures of different Roman emperors. If you are into Rome under the emperors then this is the project to back!

War and Empire 2

Hi Guys,

It's been a while since I posted anything on the blog but it has been very busy for the last few months. Anyway, Forged in Battle, the guys behind the original War and Empire range, are doing an expansion which will cover the early Imperial period from the 1st to 2nd Century AD. They plan to do a new Kickstarter campaign that will be launching on the 28th of November, so start saving now, I know I am!

Here is the link to the Facebook page with the announcement: https://www.facebook.com/Forged-In-Battle-167394450031322/

They've already posted a picture of some of their figures and they look as great as the ones for the previous range. See for yourselves below.

I'll post up the link to the Kickstarter when it launches, in the meantime I'm working on some of the buildings from the original Kickstarter and will post up some pictures of them soon.

Salute 2015

Salute was almost a month ago now, but I've only just got round to posting the pictures up. These are of the painted example models from the West Wind/Forged in Battle stand that was against the back wall of the exhibition hall. The guys at Forged in Battle had an early launch event for the entire range of their new War and Empire range, and it was great to see the sheer size of it all displayed in one place. The war and empire range is now available at http://www.forgedinbattle.com They do some great starter army boxed sets and a set of rules are due to follow soon, so check them out if you are interested in ancient warfare in 15mm! The figures they had on display were the same ones they had from last year's Salute and are painted by the talented Rubén Torregrosa, whose website can be found here - http://www.heresybrush.com . 

Starting with the best ancient civilisation - the Romans. Here we have in the foreground some velites (R) a Roman officer (L) and in the background a Roman princeps (L) Gallic warriors (C) and a Numidian horseman (R).

Another view of the same with a veles to the right, the Roman infantry officer and a squad of principes with Gallic archers to their right and the Gallic warriors to their left.

Elements of a Gallic army. warriors, skirmishers and cavalry.

From North Africa we have Numidian skirmishers (L) and cavalry behind and in the foreground the more heavily armoured Carthaginian infantry.

Romans, Gauls and Numidians again.

The Cathaginian infantry again with a Persian horseman and peltast to the right. The guy with the shield curtain is an Indian infantryman, with two Greek hoplites to the right

More Greeks on the left and a block of Seleucid sarissaphoroi. I think the horseman behind the Greeks is the model for the Carthaginian mounted commander and the one behind the Seleucids is a Sucessor mounted commander

Another view of the same. You can see the unarmoured javelinman and his command better in this shot.

Wendy and Andy from West Wind/ Forged in Battle did an interview with the guys from http://www.beastsofwar.com which you can see here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmn7W6YMlQ0 . The guys at WW/FiB are really nice bunch and their customer service is great, so again I really recommend them and their new range!

Despite the big box from last year, I still ended up getting another few purchases on the day. It was mainly some of their great shield transfers but I also bought the ruined temple, which looks great. I'll have to post a review of it later on as well as some work in progress